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Firefly Awards $120K in Research Products under Grant Program

Apr 18, 2013
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Firefly BioWorks said this week that it has awarded $120,000 in grant funding to support 12 projects that involve the profiling of large numbers of samples over multiple microRNA targets.

The awards can be used to purchase the company’s miRNA research products and services, including its FirePlex miRSelect multiplexed assays for miRNA expression analysis.

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