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Caption: In this illustration, a DNA strand is leashed to a magnetized, iron-oxide bead, with a magnet hovering over it. As the bead moves toward the magnet, the DNA strand passes through nano-sized opening slowly enough that its base pairs can be read.
Credit: Hongbo Peng/IBM Research
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