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Tm Bioscience to Provide Second Genetic Testing Reagent to William Beaumont Hospital

Oct 06, 2005

NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (GenomeWeb News) - Tm Bioscience has expanded its supply agreement with William Beaumont Hospital in Ryal Oak, Michigan, to include its Tag-It ASR reagents for use in its Ashkenazi Jewish panel gene assay, the company said today.

 

At present, Tm supplies the hospital with reagents for its cystic fibrosis gene assay.

 

"We also look forward to evaluating additional products from Tm as they are developed," said Carol Holland, technical director of molecular pathology at Beaumont, in a statement.

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