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Oxford Nanopore £17.4 million / $28million fundraising Feb 2010
Oxford Nanopore's £17.4 million/ $28 million fundraising was discussed in San-Diego based Xconomy, the DNA sequencing publication Read more >>-->
Nature Nanotechnology publication on DNA strand capture for nanopore sequencing. Dec 2009
Oxford Nanopore collaborator Professor Amit Meller's Boston University lab has published pioneering work on the capture of DNA strands for nanopore sequencing using solid-state nanopores. Read the article here and the Boston University press release here.  
Landmark Cancer publication of cancer genomes in Nature Dec 2009
Two papers in Nature describe the genomes of two patients' malignant melanoma and a small cell lung cancer.  These landmark papers were published by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, UK, and their collaborators. Authors include researchers who now work for Oxford Na...
Your Own Personal Genome: C&EN Dec 2009
The magazine of the American Chemical Society, C&EN, has published a story on the future of the personal genome and advances in sequencing technologies that will underpin this revolution.  
Corn genome completed Nov 2009
The cordn genome, whose draft sequence was published in 2008, has now been completed.  Read about it here. 
NIH $1,000 genome grants awarded to Oxford Nanopore Collaborators Oct 2009
Oxford Nanopore collaborators at the University of California Santa Cruz and Harvard have been awarded a total of $1.8 million in grants by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI, part of the National Institutes for Health, NIH).  
Click here for press release from Oxford Nanopore. 
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Oxford Nanopore VP of Research, John Milton, is interviewed at the CHI Next Gen Sequencing meeting. Oct 2009
Click here for the link at Bio IT World.
The risk of communicating risk Oct 2009
www.genomicslawreport.com is running a series on ELSI (ethical, legal and social implications) of genomics.  Read our contribution on the risks of communicating risk:  http://www.genomicslawreport.com/index.php/2009/10/12/the-risk-of-communicating-risk/#more-871
The DNA Detective: Dr Gordon Sanghera. 15 ideas to blow your mind, the Times Oct 2009
The Challenge: To know your own genetic make-up and to have personalised medicine tailored to a patient's DNA profile.  Read on here.
Nanopores: the hottest small things on earth? Oct 2009
if you are interested in nanopore technology, you may have seen the news that IBM is conducting research in the area. The New York Times,  Chemistry World and the IET  (Institute of Engineering and Technology) descr...
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