Threading the Needle (IMAGE) Arizona State University Caption Nanopore sequencing offers a new means of decoding the human genome's 3 billion nucleotide base pairs, rapidly and at low cost Credit Public Domain Usage Restrictions None License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.