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Faster, cheaper DNA sequencing method developed

Faster, cheaper DNA sequencing method developed

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boston University biomedical engineers have devised a method for making future genome sequencing faster and cheaper by dramatically reducing the amount of DNA required, thus eliminating the ...


Nanotech researchers develop artificial pore

Nanotech researchers develop artificial pore

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an RNA-powered nanomotor, University of Cincinnati (UC) biomedical engineering researchers have successfully developed an artificial pore able to transmit nanoscale material through ...


Aluminum-oxide nanopore beats other materials for DNA analysis

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fast and affordable genome sequencing has moved a step closer with a new solid-state nanopore sensor being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois.


DNA gripped in nanopores

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Molecular biologists, including the cool dudes from CSI, use gel electrophoresis to separate DNA fragments from each other in order to analyze the DNA. A team of researchers under the leadership of Vici winner Serge Lemay, ...


Brown researchers create novel technique to sequence human genome

Researchers create novel nanotechnique to sequence human genome

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Since the human genome was sequenced six years ago, the cost of producing a high-quality genome sequence has dropped precipitously. More recently, the National Institutes of Health called for cutting the cost ...


Nanopore Sequencing Could Slash DNA Analysis Costs

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past 5 years, researchers have been exploring the use of nanoscale pores as nucleic acid sequencing tools. In theory, such pores should generate a unique response characteristic of each of the four ...


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Fatal protein interactions may explain neurological diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 1

In a collaborative study at the University of California, San Diego, investigators from neurosciences, chemistry and medicine, as well as the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have investigated how proteins ...


Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST

Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 29, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6

In what should be good news for integrated circuit manufacturers, recent studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology have helped resolve two important questions about an emerging microcircuit ...


Nanopores That Can Recognize, Separate Proteins and Small Molecules

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 25, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Nanopores, holes less than one-thousand the width of a human hair, are capable of isolating strands of DNA or therapeutic drugs from a solution, based mostly on the size of the pores. Now, a chemist at the University of Massachusetts ...


New technique could dramatically lower costs of DNA sequencing

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a strategy for sequencing DNA by driving the molecule back and forth through a nanopore capacitor in a semiconductor chip. The technique ...


Artificial Nanopores Take Analyte Pulse

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 31, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Resistive pulse sensing represents a very attractive method for identifying and quantifying biomedical species such as drugs, DNA, proteins, and viruses in solution.


Semiconductor membrane mimics biological behavior of ion channels

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 12, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 0

A semiconductor membrane designed by researchers at the University of Illinois could offer more flexibility and better electrical performance than biological membranes. Built from thin silicon layers doped with different ...


DNA sieve -- Nanoscale pores can be tiny analysis labs

DNA sieve -- Nanoscale pores can be tiny analysis labs

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 11, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Imagine being able to rapidly identify tiny biological molecules such as DNA and toxins using a system that can fit on a microchip or in a drop of salt water. It’s closer than you might think, say a team of ...


Scientists Hand-Make Devices Smaller than 10 Nanometers

Scientists Hand-Make Devices Smaller than 10 Nanometers

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 27, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (42) | comments 0 feature

A research team from the University of Pennsylvania has used an electron beam to hand-carve ultra-small metal structures and devices, all with dimensions below 10 nanometers, from very thin metal sheets. Their ...


Researchers use 'nanopore channels' to precisely detect DNA

Researchers use 'nanopore channels' to precisely detect DNA

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 05, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center have shown how "nanopore channels" can be used to rapidly and precisely detect specific sequences of DNA as a potential tool for genomic applications in ...