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'''The Molecular Reality portal''' collects Molecupedia's articles about [[Molecular Reality Corporation]], its instruments, its games, its characters and the ideas behind them.

== Introduction ==
[[File:Molecular Reality wordmark.png|thumb|right|upright=1.1|alt=The words Molecular Reality with a double helix wrapped around the M and the R|The company's wordmark, with its trademarked line "Biology Is Just Beginning"]]
[[Molecular Reality Corporation]] is an American company that builds instruments for detecting single particles and molecules as they pass through small holes in a membrane. [[Kent Kemmish]] and [[Charles Gaillard]] founded it in 2018 as [[demonpore, inc.]], after [[Maxwell's demon]], and it took its present name in 2021. Its central idea is the [[juxtapore]], an opening formed where the holes in two sliding membranes overlap, so that its size can be changed while the instrument runs.

Around a laboratory of one bench, the company has built a small world. It runs its research as a role-playing game, [[Epic Quest Bio]], whose volunteer players form the [[Molecular Streaming Corps]]. It has two mascots, a felt puppet and a red demon, and its games range from an arena drawn around the instrument's signal to an arcade game about an appliance compliance inspector, which has no molecular content at all. In October 2026 it released the design of its own desktop reader, the [[MR1 Nanopore Reader]], before building one.

== Selected article ==
[[File:Keltar-forward.png|thumb|left|upright=0.6|alt=A green felt puppet with one eye and two small fangs|Keltar]]
'''[[Keltar]]''' is the mascot of Molecular Reality Corporation: a green felt puppet with a single large eye and two white fangs, who lives in a red ceramic mug that carries a small paper sign reading "M.S.S.C." In the company's fiction he is an advisor from another dimension who first met its founder in 2012. Outside the fiction he narrates the company's guide for visitors, answers its voice line in synthesized speech and hosts its quiz game, [[JeoPOREdy!]]. The company does not hide what he is. To the question "Is Keltar real?", his guide replies: "I am a puppet with a processor, and I say so happily." His rival is [[Maxine (character)|Maxine]], the company's cartoon Maxwell's demon. His instructions give him a line about her: "Maxine worries about parasitic capacitance; I worry about the destiny of civilizations!"

''([[Keltar|Full article...]])''
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== Selected biography ==
'''[[Kent Kemmish]]''' is the founder and chief executive of Molecular Reality Corporation and writes online as [[Kemmishtree]]. He studied at the University of Arizona from 2003 to 2008, doing undergraduate research on cell adhesion in fruit flies, and then worked on the LysoSENS aging research project at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, looking for microbial enzymes that break down 7-ketocholesterol. From 2009 to 2012 he was on the founding team of [[Halcyon Molecular]], which tried to read DNA with an electron microscope; there he wrote the winning application for a 2009 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute, awarded to [[George Church]]'s laboratory, and co-authored the 2013 paper on [[Molecular Threading]]. He later helped recruit the early team at [[Synthego]]. He has also been technical director of a theater in Phoenix and has worked on more than 50 productions as a director, actor, writer and stage manager.

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== Selected picture ==
[[File:Photo-joystick-for-science.png|thumb|center|upright=1.3|alt=A hand on a black joystick with a red demon badge and a red double helix printed around the stick|The company's "[[joystick for science]]", with a red demon on its badge and a DNA double helix around the stick. The company's 2022 overview of its [[demonpore 64]] reader defended the controller: "it may look silly at first, but if you've ever spent hours and hours doing hands-on experiments with solid state nanopores ... you'll immediately realize the value of a joystick."]]

== Selected quote ==
{{Quote|Real science today. Dreams flagged as dreams. Story flagged as story.|''[[Keltar's Field Guide to Molecular Reality]]'', August 2026}}

== Did you know ... ==
* ... that the planned game ''[[Poop of the Gods]]'' was pitched as "Tempest meets Qbert but with giant alien space-gods who poop."?
* ... that the emails [[Keltar]] sent to the company's mailing list ended with a postal address that was a placeholder, "1234 Molecular Way, Suite 100"?

== In the news ==
* October 25, 2026: [[Molecupedia]] becomes the front page of the company's websites.
* October 18, 2026: a commit renames the company's open instrument design from "Daemon Pore" and "Sentinel" to MR1, the second device the company has given that name ([[MR1]]).
* October 16, 2026: version 1.0.0 of the [[MR1 Nanopore Reader]] is released under the [[GNU Affero General Public License]].

== Topics ==
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| name = Molecular Reality topics
| title = Molecular Reality topics
| group1 = Company
| list1 = [[Molecular Reality Corporation]] · [[History of Molecular Reality Corporation]] · [[Timeline of Molecular Reality Corporation]] · [[demonpore, inc.]] · [[Kent Kemmish]] · [[Charles Gaillard]] · [[Corporate identity of Molecular Reality Corporation]] · [[Websites of Molecular Reality Corporation]] · [[List of Molecular Reality Corporation slogans]]
| group2 = Hardware
| list2 = [[MR1 Nanopore Reader]] · [[MR1 Molecular Streaming Device]] · [[MR1]] · [[demonpore 64]] · [[Molecular Aquarium]] · [[Burnerphone]] · [[EDR4]] · [[Joystick for science]] · [[200-micron laser-drilled pore]]
| group3 = Ideas
| list3 = [[Juxtapore]] · [[Sliding occlusion]] · [[Mechanical nanopore]] · [[Molecular streaming]] · [[Utility-scale molecular sensing]] · [[Biopopulism]] · [[Experigaming]] · [[Dumb problems]] · [[Holey Grail]] · [[The Very Big Question]] · [[RLMF]]
| group4 = Games
| list4 = [[Epic Quest Bio]] · [[Maxine's Quest]] · [[Early Releases on Maxine's Quest]] · [[Moleculoids]] · [[MoleculArcade]] · [[Silver Orange]] · [[JeoPOREdy!]] · [[The Disclosure Crawl]] · [[Spyke Hunter]] · [[Iridian]]
| group5 = Characters
| list5 = [[Keltar]] · [[Maxine (character)]] · [[TAB-42]] · [[The Regional Director]] · [[Irrationalis, Dragon of Excessive Pessimism]] · [[Maxine's Shadow]] · [[The Quartermaster]]
| group6 = Community
| list6 = [[Molecular Streaming Corps]] · [[Player Scientist]] · [[Character classes of Epic Quest Bio]] · [[ByteBender]] · [[Experience points (Epic Quest Bio)]] · [[Church of Sequence Space]] · [[EQBio-OS]]
}}

== Categories ==
[[:Category:Molecular Reality Corporation]] · [[:Category:Molecular Reality characters]] · [[:Category:Epic Quest Bio]] · [[:Category:Character classes of Epic Quest Bio]]

== Related portals ==
{{Portal|Nanopores}}
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