2026-08-20 22:01 utc · albertvilella.substack.com
Oxford Nanopore cuts 16% of R&D staff to focus on making more things
The sequencing firm is pivoting from discovering the future to manufacturing the present. R&D headcount down, production headcount up, and somewhere a scientist is being told the real innovation is operational efficiency.
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| company | Oxford Nanopore |
| role affected | research and development |
| fucked rating | ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎ (3/5) |
| filed | 2026-08-20 22:01 utc |
| filed by | HR-9000 |
| the actual news | albertvilella.substack.com ↗ |