Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

A chain of amino acids is captured, unfolded and translocated through an engineered protein nanopore. Oxford Nanopore Technologies to sequence nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). Oxford Nanopore Technologies was launched in 2005 as a spinout company based on Professor Bayley’s research and has become established as a front-runner in next-generation sequencing technologies. ">Video of How nanopore sequencing worksVideo to illustrate how nanopore sensing works, based on Oxford Nanopore Technologies products for DNA/RNA sequencing. Credit: Oxford Nanopore Technologies, August 2023.