SomaLogic will provide New England Biolabs with protein-binding reagents for use in NEB's nucleic acid amplification and PCR products, under an agreement announced today by the companies.
Terms of the deal fall for Boulder, Colo.-based SomaLogic to provide specific SomaMers — protein-binding reagents based on chemically modified aptamers — to NEB, which will incorporate them into its products as reversible inhibitors of its thermally active DNA polymerases for PCR, such as its OneTaq Hot Start DNA polymerase.
In a statement, Salvatore Russello, associate director of business development at Ipswich, Mass.-based NEB, said that there are "many opportunities to further enhance the performance of thermally active DNA polymerase in PCR reactions. This agreement is thus of great value to NEB and is already being used to improve the application of DNA polymerases, such as OneTaq Hot Start."
Financial and other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.