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Sloning to Synthesize Genes Using Automated Technology

Jul 19, 2006
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Sloning Biotechnology has entered the synthetic gene-production market this month with an automated process, the company said today.
 
The company's technology, named Slonomics, will use a library of universal double-stranded DNA building blocks that the company will assemble with industrial robotic machines.
 
Additional details were not disclosed.

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