Harvard to integrate IP with Oxford Nanopore

USA-based Harvard University's Office of Technology Development plans to integrate its discoveries in the nanopore area with technology in development by the UK's Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

Under the terms of this agreement, Oxford Nanopore has exclusive rights to develop and commercialize a number of nanopore technological breakthroughs developed in the laboratories of three investigators at Harvard and their collaborators at the University of California Santa Cruz and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the US Department of Commerce.

According to the firms, these academics have pioneered the research of DNA translocation through nanopores and the potential for DNA sequencing using this method.