21-Mar-18, Open Gov
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC announced it has invested in Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the developer of a portable, scalable, real-time DNA/RNA sequencer, with a customer base spanning over 70 countries.
%20Oxford%20Nanopore.jpg "Singapores GIC invests in portable real time DNA sequencing firm (c) Oxford Nanopore")
Image: Oxford Nanopore
Oxford Nanopore’s innovation, the MinION, is a low-cost device that has been designed to bring easy biological analyses to anyone, whether in scientific research, education or a range of real-world applications such as disease and/or pathogen surveillance, environmental monitoring, food-chain surveillance, self-quantification or even microgravity biology.