NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Roche said this week that it had established a strategic alliance with Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories of Milwaukee that designates the institution as a Roche Molecular Center of Excellence. The Roche center, established in 2002, enables non-competing regional labs across the US "to collaborate and capitalize on scientific knowledge in molecular testing and, in turn, help accelerate the advancement of new test methods and technology," the firm said.