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Honored for invention of nanopore sequencing

Emeriti Professor David Deamer holding the minION nanopore sequencing technology device

Baskin Engineering Emeriti Professors David Deamer and Mark Akeson received the AAAS Golden Goose Award for their invention of nanopore sequencing technology, a revolutionary method for sequencing long reads of DNA and RNA that has enabled some of the most significant genomics advances of our time.

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