Amgen Invests £50 Million ($66 Million) In Oxford Nanopore Technologies

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and OXFORD, England, Oct. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. today announced Amgen's equity investment of £50 million ($66 million) in Oxford Nanopore, a privately-owned, UK-based company advancing a new generation of portable, real-time genetic sequencing technology. Oxford Nanopore has developed and brought to market a proprietary sequencing technology that uses many nanopores (nano-scale holes made by proteins contained within a synthetic membrane) in combination with electronics to perform direct, real-time sequencing of DNA and RNA. The technology ranges in scale from pocket-sized to very high throughput benchtop de...
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