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Scanning tunnelling microscopy

A DNA sequence scanned

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The scanning tunnelling microscope can image and distinguish individual bases in DNA molecules, thus allowing partial sequencing of the strands.

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Figure 1: Partial sequencing of a single DNA molecule with a scanning tunnelling microscope.

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  1. Danny Porath is at the Department of Physical Chemistry and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. porath@chem.ch.huji.ac.il,

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