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Epicentre licenses Reagents to DuPont

Apr 19, 2006

NEW YORK, April 19 (GenomeWeb News) - DuPont has taken a license from Epicentre Biotechnologies to use its EZ-Tn5 and HyperMu transposon tools, Epicentre said today.

 

Epicentre develops, manufactures, and sells enzyme systems for life science research. The company said that DuPont will use the reagents to create new biocatalysts.

 

Financial details of the agreement were not released.

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