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ScienceDaily: Latest Science News

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News


DNA through graphene nanopores

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a new type of nanopore devices that may significantly impact the way we screen DNA molecules, for example to read off their sequence. The scientists report a novel technique to fabricate tiny holes in a layer of graphene (a carbon layer with a thickness of only 1 atom) and they managed to detect the motion of individual DNA molecules that travel through such a hole.

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