BIOTECON Diagnostics signs license agreement with Applera Corporation

26-May-2008

Applera and BIOTECON Diagnostics (BCD) announced a non-exclusive, worldwide license agreement relating to PCR technology for food Testing Applications and Genetically-Modified Organism (GMO) Testing Applications: BIOTECON Diagnostics has acquired important rights with the PCR licence.

In the future BIOTECON Diagnostics is entitled to produce and market PCR kits for food safety testing worldwide under its own name. The PCR test systems will be applicable to a broad range of real-time PCR instruments. The PCR technology forms the basis for the development of diagnostic kits that can detect and characterise single or multiple pathogens in food products and related raw material samples.

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