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Agilent Technologies' SureVector Kit

Feb 19, 2015

Agilent Technologies has released SureVector, a modular vector kit for molecular cloning and DNA assembly research. According to the company, SureVector is the first of its kind, providing an extensively validated set of standardized parts that can be assembled into thousands of combinations covering a huge portion of commercially available vectors that will be functional in a variety of cell types.

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