Roche Licenses NuGen Technology for RNA Amplification Kit | GenomeWeb

Roche Licenses NuGen Technology for RNA Amplification Kit

Apr 03, 2008

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Roche announced today that it has licensed technology from NuGen Technologies that will be included in Roche’s LightCycler RNA Pre-Amplification Kit, which will be launched in the third quarter of 2008.

Under the co-exclusive agreement, NuGen will supply components for the kit and has provided Roche with limited access to NuGen’s Ovation technology, which enables small and partially degraded RNA samples to be amplified into micrograms of cDNA.

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