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Transgenomic licenses new oligonucleotide synthesis technology from University of Calgary

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, June 20th, 2002

Transgenomic, Inc., (TBIO) announced its exclusive worldwide license of a new technology to speed up and reduce the cost of synthesizing nucleic acids.

The technology, invented by Dr. Richard T. Pon of the University of Calgary, was licensed through University Technologies International, Inc., of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (UTI).

Current oligo synthesis starts with a solid support, a foundation on which to build the oligo, preloaded with a linker and the first nucleic acid base. The linker couples the first base to the foundation and can be cleaved, or cut, at the end of the building process to remove the foundation from the finished oligo. Other...

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