Month: February 2012
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New DNA sequencer uses nanopore concepts pioneered at UC Santa Cruz
By Tim Stevens, UCSC Public Information For more than 15 years, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been developing technology to analyze DNA strands as they pass through a tiny pore in a membrane, called a “nanopore” because it is just 1.5 nanometers wide at its narrowest point. Now, Oxford Nanopore Technologies of Oxford,…