Congratulations to UC Santa Cruz emeritus professors of biomolecular engineering Dave Deamer and Mark Akeson who have received the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Golden Goose Award for their role in the invention of nanopore sequencing, a revolutionary method for reading DNA and RNA. The Golden Goose award is given to scientists whose federally-funded research was seemingly obscure or silly at the outset but created a deep societal impact. This was certainly the case for D