Staff Blog

3/13/2012 - by Grant Campany - Comments

Along with several hundred others, I attended the Advances in Genome Biology & Technology (AGBT) conference last month in Marco Island, Florida. Perhaps the biggest news from the conference came from Chief Technology Officer Clive Brown of Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). Using a PR campaign lifted directly from Steve Jobs’ book of effective marketing strategies, the ONT website shut down prior to Clive’s talk and a new one went up just after the big announcement.

1/05/2012 - by Grant Campany - Comments
When a New Year’s Eve snowstorm in 1939 canceled their honeymoon travel plans, newlyweds Edith and Frank Sampson trekked to Boston Gardens to watch the Boston Bruins beat the Montreal Canadians 6-1.
11/07/2011 - by Grant Campany - Comments
The Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Medco official launch on October 26 was hosted by veteran broadcast journalist Miles O’Brien, former science and technology reporter for CNN.
10/26/2011 - by Grant Campany - Comments

The Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Medco is a $10 Million incentivized Competition, challenging scientists to design rapid, inexpensive and accurate whole human genome sequencing technologies.