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Tempus NGS SARS-CoV-2 Assay

Mar 31, 2021

Tempus has launched an amplicon-based, high-throughput next-generation sequencing assay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus mutations. The research-use-only assay includes primers designed to detect mutations and to characterize SARS-CoV-2 RNA.

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