The object
Daniel Branton co-invented nanopore sequencing and collaborated with David Deamer and Mark Akeson to solve problems that made the technique a commercial sequencing technology. Harvard's 2025 profile traces Branton's contribution from the original concept of reading DNA through a nanopore to the platform now used in genomics devices.
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What Daniel did
Co-invented nanopore sequencing and helped solve the biological and biophysical problems that enabled the technology.
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Why it matters
Nanopore sequencing created a new hardware route to rapid single-molecule DNA and RNA reading, supporting compact commercial sequencers.
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Living-status check
Harvard Molecular and Cellular Biology published a profile of Branton in December 2025 that describes his nanopore-sequencing work.