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RIJ to Market Sloning's Gene Synthesis Services in Japan

Jul 19, 2007
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Sloning Biotechnology of Puchheim, Germany, on Monday said that Research and Innovation Japan will exclusively market and distribute its Slonomics gene-synthesis service and its Slonomax gene-mutant libraries in Japan.
 
“Sloning's products and services perfectly address the current demand in genomics research and protein engineering,” RIJ CEO Kiyohiko Hirasawa said in a statement.
 
Financial terms of the agreement were not released.

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