Bionomics Limited

Genomics company licenses epilepsy test

Published in Mental Health Law Weekly, October 30th, 2004

Bionomics Limited announced that it has granted a license to Boston-based Athena Diagnostics to market Bionomics' childhood epilepsy diagnostic to neurologists in North America and Japan.

Athena, specialists in diagnostic testing for neurological disorders, plans to make the gene-based Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI) test available later this calendar year to over 5,000 neurologists for whom it currently performs diagnostic tests.

Until now there has been no genetic test available to clinicians to allow them to distinguish SMEI from less serious forms of epilepsy. Early diagnosis should reduce the cost associated with current diagnostic...

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Source: Mental Health Law Weekly (2004-10-30)

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