{"id":121299,"date":"2021-04-07T05:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/glass-nanopore-pulls-dna-like-spaghetti-through-a-needle"},"modified":"2021-04-07T05:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:22:18","slug":"glass-nanopore-pulls-dna-like-spaghetti-through-a-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/glass-nanopore-pulls-dna-like-spaghetti-through-a-needle","title":{"rendered":"Glass nanopore pulls DNA like spaghetti through a needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glass-nanopore-pulls-dna-like-spaghetti-through-a-needle3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research led by UC Riverside is making it easier to detect and capture DNA from fluid samples such as blood using a tiny glass tube and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+current\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric current<\/a>. The technique, described in the journal <i>Nanoscale<\/i>, can also improve cancer diagnosis in the future.<\/p>\n<p>DNA, a double-stranded, electrically charged molecule that contains all the information an organism needs to create and organize the building blocks of life, is tightly folded within the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cell+nucleus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cell nucleus<\/a>. Extracting the DNA from a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single+cell\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single cell<\/a> is time consuming and impractical for many medical and scientific purposes. Fortunately, as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> die naturally, their membranes burst, releasing the contents, including DNA. This means that a blood <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sample\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sample<\/a>, for example, contains many strands of free-floating DNA that should, in theory, be easier to identify and extract in quantity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research led by UC Riverside is making it easier to detect and capture DNA from fluid samples such as blood using a tiny glass tube and electric current. The technique, described in the journal Nanoscale, can also improve cancer diagnosis in the future. DNA, a double-stranded, electrically charged molecule that contains all the information an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}