Tokyo, Japan 7/8/13; Cambridge, UK 7/8/13—Hitachi High-Technologies and Base4 Innovation have announced a collaborative technology development agreement to develop a long read length, single molecule, nanopore-based DNA sequencer. Base4’s nanopore sequencing method increases the signal of unlabeled DNA passing through a nanopore by using laser light-enhanced gold structures. “For this nanopore sequencing system, Hitachi High-Tech is our preferred manufacturing partner,” commented Base4 Founder and CEO Cameron Frayling. “Development of this technology is expected to take place over three years, both in Cambridge and Hitachinaka-shi, Japan.”