NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Seegene and DuPont Nutrition and Health have signed a licensing agreement covering the use of Seegene's multiplex molecular chemistry in DuPont's real-time PCR-based food safety assays.
Under the pact, DuPont will use Seegene's dual-priming oligonucleotide, or DPO, and tagging oligonucleotide capture and extension, or TOCE, technologies in real-time PCR assays for its BAX System for food safety testing.
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The companies originally announced in May that they had inked an agreement to jointly develop highly multiplexed assays to detect foodborne pathogens but did not announce a licensing agreement at that time.