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Life Tech Offering Sage Science's DNA Size Selection System for Ion Torrent PGM

Oct 11, 2011

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) –Life Technologies will offer Sage Science's Pippin Prep DNA size selection system under a deal announced today by Sage Science.

The system is for use on the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine.

Pippin Prep is an automated gel electrophoresis system designed for preparing size-fractionated DNA samples, and, Sage Science said, an automated workflow with the system improves speed, yield, quality, and reproducibility of next-gen library construction.

Financial and other terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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