PROGENIKA’s BLOOD GROUP GENOTYPING TEST AVAILABLE THROUGH ARUP LABORATORIESCambridge, MA, October 22, 2009 – Progenika, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with ARUP Laboratories (ARUP) of Salt Lake City, UT, to provide blood group genotyping reference laboratory services to ARUP to determine patient red blood cell antigen profiles when serology has logistic and functional limitations. Progenika’s blood group genotyping microarray, which simultaneously detects over 100 genetic variants in the nine blood group systems that are most relevant to transfusion safety, overcomes these serological limitations. |
Progenika is ideally positioned to introduce diagnostic and prognostic tools to the clinical marketplace through its laboratory and its team of experienced professionals.
With an extensive history of validation and commercialization of genotyping products in Europe, Progenika Inc. is actively seeking partners from academia, biotech, pharmaceutical and discovery companies for product development and validation in the USA and Canada.
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