The study could distinguish cancer and normal cells by scanning as few as 250 RNA molecules obtained from tissue samples. This is a fraction of what a typical nanopore sequencing device is capable of.

Using an ionic solution, protein sequences can now be pulled through a nanopore. Researchers at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) have found a way to transport a protein through a nanopore ...

DNA holds the instructions that make us who we are. If we want to read those instructions, say to understand our ...

November 23, 2023 2 min read A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue 39 ...

David Deamer (left) and Mark Akeson in Santa Cruz in 2023 after receiving the inaugural UCSC Chancellor’s Innovation Impact Award for inventing nanopore sequencing. (photo by Today, two UC Santa Cruz ...