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Single-molecule DNA sequencing

Getting to the bottom of the well

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Large DNA molecules are rapidly loaded into nanoscale wells from dilute solution for single-molecule sequencing.

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Figure 1: Pulling DNA into a nanoscale well.

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Bayley, H. Getting to the bottom of the well. Nature Nanotech 12, 1116–1117 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.205

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