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SurePrint miRNA Microarrays

Nov 10, 2014

Agilent Technologies this week announced updates to its SurePrint miRNA Microarrays to include targets from the latest version of the miRBase public miRNA database. The database, miRBase 21, contains 28,645 entries including more than 15 percent in content added from miRBase 20, Agilent said.

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