Stratos Genomics, a Seattle-based company developing faster and cheaper DNA sequencing technology, has been granted three months of access to a microfabrication laboratory operated by the Washington Technology Center on the University of Washington campus. Stratos’ proposal is to create a “Nanopore Noise Reduction Project” that “creates, encodes and measures surrogate molecules derived from DNA targets to produce DNA sequence information,” according to a statement from the Washington Technology Center. The award is the first that the WTC has granted under a technology stimulus program for small businesses in Washington.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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