Commercialization
Agilent Laboratories was the first to license and develop nanopores but does not have any current disclosed research in the area.
The company Oxford Nanopore Technologies in 2008 licensed technology from Harvard, UCSC and other universities and is developing protein and solid state nanopore technology with the aim of sequencing DNA and identifying biomarkers, drugs of abuse and a range of other molecules. They revealed their first working device in February 2012
Sequenom licensed nanopore technology from Harvard in 2007 using an approach that combines nanopores and fluorescent labels. This technology was subsequently licensed to Noblegen.
NABsys was spun out of Brown University and is researching nanopores as a method of identifying areas of single stranded DNA that have been hybridized with specific DNA probes.
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