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Biosearch Names Uniscience its Brazilian Distribution Partner

May 22, 2012 | staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Biosearch Technologies said today that Uniscience will distribute its inventoried and custom products in Brazil.

Uniscience will focus its efforts on Biosearch's custom qPCR probes and primers, custom oligonucleotides, and Stellaris RNA FISH probes. Uniscience has served the Brazilian biotechnology, diagnostic, and molecular biology markets for more than 26 years, and naming it as Biosearch's distributor in Brazil is part of the Novato, Calif.-based company's strategy for global expansion, it said.

Financial and other terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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