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Tetracore Wins NIH Funds for Chikungunya/Dengue MDx on Its POC Thermocycler

Jan 30, 2015
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Madeleine Johnson
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Rockville, Md.-based diagnostics firm Tetracore has been awarded a one-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop a point-of-care, real-time reverse-transcriptase PCR assay that detects and distinguishes dengue and chikungunya viruses.

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