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Ion PGM Dr. Gordon Moore Environment Grant
2010 Award Winner

The Dr. Gordon Moore Environment Grant was awarded in honor of the 45th anniversary of the publication of Moore's Law through the Ion PGM Sequencer Grant Program.

Dr. Sogin proposes using Ion technology to more accurately and rapidly identify both the source and extent of water contamination for the same cost as culture-based methods.

Sr. Scientist and Director of the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution

Ion PGM Dr. James Watson Healthcare Grant
2010 Award Winner

The Dr. James Watson Grant was awarded in honor of the 57th anniversary of the publication of the double helix structure of DNA.

Drs. Iafrate and Le propose using Ion technology in broad-based tumor diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment stratification. The Ion PGM's short run times and direct sequence data make it practical for the clinic.

Dr. John Iafrate (right)

Director Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Long Phi Le (left)

Clinical Pathology Resident/Molecular Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital

Ion Torrent Technology Video

Ion Torrent has developed a new sequencing technology that brings the transformative power of the semiconductor to the life sciences. Ion Torrent's true semiconductor sequencing enables a direct connection between chemical and digital data, making sequencing fast, simple and massively scalable.

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Semiconductor Section

Ion Torrent Technology marries incredibly powerful, but proven semiconductor technology to simple chemistry-it's Watson meets Moore.

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Chemistry Section

Ion Torrent technology is based on a simple and well-characterized biochemical process: In nature, each time a base is incorporated into a strand of DNA by a polymerase, a hydrogen ion is released. The technology uses a high-density array of micro-machined wells to perform this simple biochemical process in a massively parallel way.

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