New Nanopore Method Achieves Near-Perfect Control of Individual DNA Molecules

Aleksandra Radenovic, head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology in the School of Engineering, has worked for years to improve nanopore technology, which involves passing a molecule like DNA through a tiny pore in a membrane to measure an ionic current. Scientists can determine DNA's sequence of nucleotides – which encodes genetic information – by analyzing how each one perturbs this current as it passes through. The research has been published today in Nature Nanotechnology.