Description of Business	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2023
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Description of Business	Description of the BusinessNanoString Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware on June 20, 2003. The Company’s headquarters is located in Seattle, Washington. The Company’s proprietary chemistries enable the direct detection, identification, and quantification of individual target molecules in biological samples by attaching unique molecular reporters to each target molecule of interest. The Company currently markets and sells its proprietary technologies, consisting of (i) its spatial biology platforms, including CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager or CosMx SMI, GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler, or GeoMx, and AtoMx Spatial Informatics Platform, or AtoMx, a cloud-based informatics portal currently for use with CosMx, and (ii) its nCounter Analysis System for multi-plex bulk gene expression analysis. The CosMx, GeoMx, and nCounter product platforms include instruments, related consumables, software and services, have the versatility to detect both RNA and protein expression and are able to generate reliable and reproduceable data in a variety of biological sample types.

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