Professor Madhavi Krishnan has study published in Science

A team from the University of Oxford have developed a microchip-based method that can be used to quickly and precisely determine the size of a wide variety of molecules. Their study is published today in the journal Science.

Professor Madhavi Krishnan, a Fellow at Merton who led the study, said: “This technology is likely to benefit biomolecular analytics in the broadest sense. Our ability to count and characterise rare species and states holds particular promise for molecular diagnostics. Yet another completely orthogonal sphere of interest is the rapid yet precise determination of the shape and conformation of biological molecules”.

The Oxford team worked in collaboration with researchers from the Technical University Dresden and the University of Southampton, who provided key biologically-significant molecular systems for testing.

The full study, Single-molecule stereometry, can be read in the journal Science.