Tiny holes have been drilled through individual layers of graphene — atomically thin sheets of carbon — using an electron beam. These nanopores might be useful for the ultrarapid sequencing of single DNA molecules.
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Hagan Bayley is the founder, a director and a shareholder of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a company engaged in the development of nanopore sequencing technology. Work in the Bayley laboratory at the University of Oxford is supported in part by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Work on this News & Views article was not supported by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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1. Hagan Bayley is the founder, a director and a shareholder of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a company engaged in the development of nanopore sequencing technology. Work in the Bayley laboratory at the University of Oxford is supported in part by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Work on this News & Views article was not supported by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. 2. Work in the Branton and Golovchenko laboratories at Harvard University is supported in part by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. The work by Branton, Golovchenko and colleagues discussed in this News & Views article was not supported by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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Bayley, H. Holes with an edge. Nature 467, 164–165 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467164a
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