DNA Traversing through a Tiny Pore

DNA molecule traversing through a nanometer-scale opening, or "nanopore," made with silicon. Nanopores are emerging as powerful tools for studying properties of individual biomolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins.

Credit: Cees Dekker et al., Molecular Biophysics Group at the Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands .

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