Cepheid Licenses Quantovir's HPV IP to Develop Predictive Dx for Cervical Cancer

Sep 24, 2007

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Cepheid said today that it plans to use a family of human papillomavirus patents it has exclusively licensed from the Swedish company Quantovir to develop a PCR-based diagnostic test for HPV that will predict a woman’s risk for developing cervical cancer.

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