NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Agilent Technologies this week said that the United States-Latin American Cancer Research Network (US-LACRN) will use its microarray tools and associated products for a study of breast cancer in five Latin American nations. US-LACRN is a collaboration between the US' National Cancer Institute and the ministries of health in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.
Genetic Technologies Ltd. said that it has executed a preliminary research agreement with an unnamed pharmaceutical company to develop a new cancer profiling product. The Australian firm said that it will use its technologies to develop specific genetic oncology profiling systems for targeting chemotherapy in late-stage cancer patients.
Horizon Discovery this week said that it has inked a three-year collaborative agreement with the Fox Chase Cancer Center to apply its rAAV gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells and for the discovery of genes involved in resistance to EGFR-targeted therapies in human cancer. Horizon expects to develop new human isogenic disease models under the alliance and knock-out mouse models that will be exclusively licensed by Fox Chase in exchange for future product royalties.
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