Variagenics Lays Off 40 Staffers in Effort to Reign in Cash Burn

May 16, 2002

NEW YORK, May 16 - Variagenics said today it plans to lay off 30 percent of its workforce and jettison its NuCleave business in an attempt to reign in cash burn and focus more tightly on its molecular diagnostics business.

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