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LI-COR Offers $1.75M in Matching Funds to Help Schools Buy Its Sequencers

Aug 05, 2005

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (GenomeWeb News) - LI-COR Biosciences is offering $1.75 million in Genomics Education Matching Funds for high schools, colleges, and universities to acquire its DNA sequencing systems and software.

 

The company said the technology would be used by undergraduate students studying molecular biology and related fields.

LI-COR systems are used in academic labs for applications including sequencing, microsatellites, AFLP, SNP discovery, and reverse genetics research.

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