The ability to control transit speed and average multiple readings of the same molecule has resulted in an increase in signal-to-noise ratio of two orders of magnitude compared to conventional methods.
Fantner summarizes the logic of the approach with an automotive analogy: “Imagine you are watching cars drive back and forth as you stand in front of a window. It’s a lot easier to read their license plate numbers if the cars slow down and drive by repeatedly,” he says. “We also get to decide if we want to measure 1,000 different molecules each one time or the same molecule 1,000 times, which represents a real paradigm shift in the field.”
This sounds like a big deal to me. It will help resolve ancient human genetics, etc if it is cheap enough,
A new tool to study complex genome interactions
Also, of note.