RNA Sequencing in Space

What is a Nanopore?: Genomics and Single-Cell Sequencing

UC Santa Cruz Nanopore Group researchers invented the idea of nanopore sequencing. They developed nanopore detectors — single-cell, long-read genetic sequencing technologies — which can be compared to the impact of the electron microscope to science in the 20th century. These nanopore instruments are built around a “nano-scale” opening in a thin membrane, for the study of microscopic living material such as DNA. These pores or openings are just big enough to fit a single strand of DNA.