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He Really Loves His Ion PGM

Apr 06, 2011

When Ambry Genetics announced this week that it would be the first authorized customer-service provider for Ion Torrent's Ion Personal Genome Machine, as reported by our sister publication In Sequence, the firm issued a fairly standard press release. But beneath comments from Ion Torrent's VP of marketing and business development, Ambry linked to its new ad related to the announcement, which it posted on YouTube:

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