http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1269 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/nhgrinih-awards-team-65m-advance-dna-sequencing-using-nanopores <!--paging_filter--><p>The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health <br />(NIH), awarded a $6.5 (over 4 years) grant to a team of Harvard University researchers to further develop electronic sequencing in nanopores. The grant is part of more than $20 million in total funding <br />given by NHGRI/NIH to spur innovative sequencing technologies inexpensive and efficient enough to sequence a person's DNA as a routine part of biomedical research and health care.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/nhgrinih-awards-team-65m-advance-dna-sequencing-using-nanopores">read more</a></p> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:27:03 -0400 404132862 20389 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/new-way-see-dna <!--paging_filter--><p>Research by Harvard scientists was driven by the need to make extremely small holes that mimic the pores in human cells through which different molecules must pass to keep the cells alive and healthy. "My colleagues and I first had the idea of sequencing genes by forcing DNA molecules through minute openings," explains David Branton, Higgins Research Professor of Biology. Branton teamed up with Jene Golovchenko, professor of physics and applied physics at Harvard, who came up with the idea of making the holes in solid materials. "We have discovered how to move atoms across a surface with such high precision and control that we can make structures to detect and analyze particles as small as a single molecule of DNA," says Golovchenko.</p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:14:23 -0400 70652986 3006 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu