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Agreement Signed To Develop DNA-Based HIV Tests
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 24th, 1997
The two companies have planned to develop and carry-out early stage clinical trials on two diagnostic tests for HIV: a quantitative viral load test and a full sequence based test. Both tests employ VGI's CLIP single-tube sequencing and stratified matrix testing methods, and run on VGI's OpenGene DNA sequencing platform.
Under the agreement, VGI adapts its CLIP and stratified matrix DNA testing methods to the quantitative viral analysis and DNA sequencing of CLS's HIV-1 samples using...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-03-24)
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