DNA and Protein Readers for Nanomedicine (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

DNA and Protein Readers for Nanomedicine

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Lindsay's ultimate goal is to translate technology into making DNA and protein readers an everyday part of precision medicine. The technology, called recognition tunneling, threads single molecules down a nanopore like a thread through the eye of a needle. As they go down the nano-rabbit hole, electrodes measure the electrical properties of these single DNA or amino acid molecules to determine their sequence identity.

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Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

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