Protein nanopores in cells are important for biological processes for transporting molecules in and out of membranes. And now, scientists from the UK, Netherlands, and Germany successfully synthesized nanopores made of double-stranded DNA!

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Diederichs, T.; Ahmad, K.; Burns, J. R.; Nguyen, Q. H.; Siwy, Z. S.; Tornow, M.; Coveney, P. V.; Tampé, R.; Howorka, S. Principles of Small-Molecule Transport through Synthetic Nanopores. ACS Nano 2021, 15, 16194-16206.

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