NanoString Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells products that unlock scientifically valuable and clinically actionable information from minute amounts of biological material. The Company’s core technology is a unique, proprietary optical barcoding chemistry that enables the labeling and counting of single molecules. This proprietary chemistry may reduce the number of steps required to conduct certain types of scientific experiments and allow for multiple experiments to be conducted at once. As a result, NanoString is able to develop tools that are easier for researchers to use and that may generate faster and more consistent scientific results.