Researchers produce graphene nanoribbons with nanopores for fast DNA sequencing
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
The instructions for building all of the body's proteins are contained in a person's DNA, a string of chemicals that, if unwound and strung end to end, would form a sentence 3 billion letters long. Each person's sentence is unique, so learning how to read gene sequences as quickly and inexpensively as possible could pave the way to countless personalized medical applications.