Cao Lab – Laboratory of Bio and Bio-inspired Nanosystems

A polymer carrying binary information (bit-0, orange; bit-1, green) translocating through an aerolysin nanopore (gray). Credit: Chan Cao
We are working on various aspects of molecular nanotechnology and bioengineering, particularly focusing on biological nanopore sensing, including engineering and design of biological nanopores, detection of protein biomarkers, single-molecule DNA/protein sequencing, and nanopore-based molecular digital data storage