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Link Technologies Inks Licensing Deal with RiboTask

Nov 04, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Reagents maker Link Technologies said today that it will sell RiboTask's nucleic acid monomers, under a new license agreement.

Link, a Scottish company, will make and commercialize RiboTask's unlocked-nucleic acid (UNA) monomer phosphoramadite reagents, which are used to enable fine-tuning of oligonucleotide stability in siRNA gene silencing and other applications.

Patents for the therapeutic use of UNA oligonucleotides are held by MDRNA, according to Link.

Financial terms of the agreement were not released.

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