The 2020 Millennium Technology Prize
- July 11, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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The 2020 Millennium Technology Prize
Subject : Current Events
Concept :
- The 2020 Millennium Technology Prize, has been awarded to Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman, for their development of revolutionary DNA sequencing techniques.
- The Millennium Prize is awarded by the Republic of Finland, along with top Finnish academic institutions and industries.
- Their “Next Generation Sequencing” (NGS) method could enable faster and cheaper methods to genome sequencing.