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Quest Diagnostics licenses technology underlying SensiTrop HIV co-receptor tropism test from pathway diagnostics -First national diagnostic testing company to license proprietary technology-.

Publication: BIOTECH Patent News
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (Madison, NJ), the nation's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, announced that it has entered into a non- exclusive license agreement for the heteroduplex tracking technology underlying Pathway Diagnostics' SensiTrop HIV co-receptor...

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...tropism test. Tropism refers to the way a virus targets host cells. A molecular-based assay for HIV co-receptor tropism will help physicians personalize therapy for HIV patients. Quest Diagnostics is the first full-service national clinical laboratory in the United States to license the technology. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"Pathway Diagnostics' heteroduplex tracking technology is an important new advance that highlights the growing importance of diagnostics to personalized medicine," said Joyce G. Schwartz, M.D., vice president...

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