Four inch long nanopore sequencer looks to expand DNA sequencing applications - Errors still exist

09/17/2014 - 00:00

  By <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/contributor/antonio-regalado/">Antonio Regalado</a> -<br><br>One day in 1989, biophysicist David Deamer pulled his car off California’s Interstate 5 to hurriedly scribble down an idea. In a mental flash, he had pictured a strand of DNA threading its way through a microscopic pore. Grabbing a pen and a yellow pad, he sketched out a radical new way to study the molecule of life.<br><br><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530746/radical-new-dna-sequencer-finally-gets-into-researchers-hands/">READ MORE ON MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW </a>