NIST team advances in translating language of nanopores
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 05:49
in Biology & Nature
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists have moved a step closer to developing the means for a rapid diagnostic blood test that can scan for thousands of disease markers and other chemical indicators of health. The team reports it has learned how to decode the electrical signals generated by a nanopore - a 'gate' less than 2 nanometres wide in an artificial cell membrane...