{"id":165844,"date":"2023-06-15T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T00:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/tiny-nanopores-can-contribute-to-faster-identification-of-diseases"},"modified":"2023-06-15T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T00:23:47","slug":"tiny-nanopores-can-contribute-to-faster-identification-of-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/tiny-nanopores-can-contribute-to-faster-identification-of-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Tiny nanopores can contribute to faster identification of diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-nanopores-can-contribute-to-faster-identification-of-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a collaboration with Groningen University, Professor J\u00f8rgen Kjems and his research group at Aarhus University have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in developing tiny nano-sized pores that can contribute to better possibilities for, among other things, detecting diseases at an earlier stage.<\/p>\n<p>Their work, recently published in the journal <i><i>ACS Nano<\/i>,<\/i> shows a new innovative method for finding specific proteins in complex biological fluids, such as blood, without having to label the proteins chemically. The research is an important milestone in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanopore+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanopore technology<\/a>, and could revolutionize medical diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p>Nanopores are tiny channels formed in materials, that can be used as sensors. The researchers, led by J\u00f8rgen Kjems and Giovanni Maglia (Groningen Univ.), have taken this a step further by developing a special type of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanopore\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanopore<\/a> called ClyA with scanner molecules, called nanobodies, attached to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a collaboration with Groningen University, Professor J\u00f8rgen Kjems and his research group at Aarhus University have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in developing tiny nano-sized pores that can contribute to better possibilities for, among other things, detecting diseases at an earlier stage. Their work, recently published in the journal ACS Nano, shows a new innovative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165844","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\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}