Welcome to The Nanopore Site
A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane filled with water and ions. WIth an applied poetntial over the membrane an ionic current is flowing that indicates the passage of a molecule like DNA. Nanopore sensors are typically just big enough to allow a single molecule of DNA to pass through.
Nanopore based sending has potential applications in many areas of biotechnology and the life sciences. There are many sources for nanopores: they can be extracted from living organisms or fabricated using nanotechnology and even DNA.
The diversity of nanopores has resulted in their study by researchers from a variety of fields, including engineering, biology, chemistry and physics. The aim of The Nanopore Site is to provide keep an overview in order to integrate efforts and create a central information platform.
The website was created by Joanne Gornall and Ulrich Keyser as part of a EU funded project in 2009. Lorenz Steinbock who is now at the European Patent Organisation helped with the contents. Now, please contact Kerstin Göpfrich, Kaikai Chen and Ulrich Keyser with comments and any other queries.
Image courtesy of Cees Dekker. Use of this image is possible provided that proper credit is given such as "Image by Cees Dekker, TU Delft/Tremani". See ceesdekkerlab.tudelft.nl
Nanopore based sending has potential applications in many areas of biotechnology and the life sciences. There are many sources for nanopores: they can be extracted from living organisms or fabricated using nanotechnology and even DNA.
The diversity of nanopores has resulted in their study by researchers from a variety of fields, including engineering, biology, chemistry and physics. The aim of The Nanopore Site is to provide keep an overview in order to integrate efforts and create a central information platform.
The website was created by Joanne Gornall and Ulrich Keyser as part of a EU funded project in 2009. Lorenz Steinbock who is now at the European Patent Organisation helped with the contents. Now, please contact Kerstin Göpfrich, Kaikai Chen and Ulrich Keyser with comments and any other queries.
Image courtesy of Cees Dekker. Use of this image is possible provided that proper credit is given such as "Image by Cees Dekker, TU Delft/Tremani". See ceesdekkerlab.tudelft.nl
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Nanopore companies
Base4, UK DoDoOmnidata, USA Fullgen, Argentina Genia, USA, California Goeppert, USA INanoBio, USA, Arizona Ionera, Germany Izon Science, New Zealand Nabsys, USA, Providence Nanion, Germany |
Nanopore companies
NanoporeSolutions, Portugal Nanopore, USA, New Mexico NanoporeDx, USA, St Louis Noblegen Biosciences, MA, USA Oxford Nanopore Technologies, UK Quantapore, CA, USA Quantum Biosystems, Japan Shenzhen P&Z Biological Medical Company; China and P&Z Biological Technology, Newark, USA TwoPoreGuys, USA |
Current amplifiers
A&M Systems, USA Chimera Instruments, USA Elements, Italy HEKA , Germany Molecular Devices (Axopatch), USA Tecella, USA, California |
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Nanopore research groups
Contact Kaikai Chen (kc494 at cam.ac.uk) if your group is not listed and you want to add it.
In case you would like your website to be added to this list or information updated, please send an email to Kaikai Chen kc494 (at) cam.ac.uk.