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Icoria Unit to Sell miRNA Arrays Made by Rosetta Genomics

NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (GenomeWeb News) - A unit of Icoria will exclusively sell Rosetta Genomics' MirChip microRNA detection and analysis services, the companies said today.

 

Icoria's Paradigm Array Labs business unit will commercialize the service, which will be launched Oct. 26 at the American Society of Human Genetics conference in Toronto, the firms said.

Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Icoria, which used to be Paradigm Genetics, is an authorized service provider for Affymetrix and Agilent gene expression-analysis platforms.

 

Rosetta Genomics is based in Rehovot, Israel.

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