Detecting cancer using nanopores

Further to a previous (15 Mar 2015) newsletter, scientists from Israel’s Technion are the only team working for European research consortium BeyondSeq on early diagnosis of cancer. They are using tiny silicon “nanopore” scanners to detect molecular DNA biomarkers in cancer cells.

http://pard.technion.ac.il/2015/09/09/researchers-use-nanopore-scanners-to-find-early-signs-of-cancer/

http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193312_en.html

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