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UCSC's David Deamer and Mark Akeson won the Golden Goose award for the invention of nanopore sequencing, a transformational technology for reading DNA and RNA. Here, Deamer holds the MinION, a portable device for nanopore sequencing. (photo by Nick Gonzales)

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Tricorder Tech: UCSC Astrobiologist David Deamer And Mark Akeson Honored For Invention Of Nanopore Sequencing

by Keith CowingNovember 28, 2023January 4, 2025

[In September 2023] two UC Santa Cruz researchers were honored at the Library of Congress for the invention of nanopore sequencing, which became a new and revolutionary method to read […]

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Tricorder Tech: UCSC Astrobiologist David Deamer And Mark Akeson Honored For Invention Of Nanopore Sequencing

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