This story originally ran on Dec. 2.

By Tony Fong

Increasing demand for its protein biomarker services has prompted Covance to ramp up its biomarker operations.

Last month, the Princeton, NJ-based contract research organization announced it had made Rules Based Medicine its exclusive third-party provider of multiplexed protein biomarker testing services. In return, the Austin, Texas biomarker testing laboratory will use Covance as its exclusive referral source for laboratory-based tests.