Pore Science: Oxford and the 15-Minute Genome?

March 11, 2011

March 16, 2011 | The Economist looks at Oxford Nanorpore's nanopore sequencing. “So the current state of the art spends between five and ten days just preparing the DNA,” Gordon Sanghera, CEO at Oxford Nanopore, told the magazine. With nanopores, no pre-processing is required and no amplification. Instead a single strand of DNA can be read, one base pair at a time, and without the need for labeling, The Economist.