Takara Bio, Konica Minolta to Co-develop Compact Chlamydia Testing System

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Article Date: 24 Jan 2005 - 12:00 PDT

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Tokyo (JCNN) - Takara Bio (TSE: 4974) and Konica Minolta (TSE: 4902) have jointly announced that they have agreed to co-develop an inspection system targeting chlamydia.

The system combines Takara Bio's proprietary isothermal DNA amplification method ICAN (Isothermal and Chimeric primer-initiated Amplification of Nucleic acids) and Konica Minolta's Micro Total Analysis Systems muTAS and micropump technology, and accurately and simply detects the chlamydia virus.

The system consists of three components: a sample preprocessing device, disposable microchip, and compact desktop analyzer.

The two companies plan to develop the system within a year and commercialize it in 2008.

View Konica Minolta Holdings,Inc. company profile here

View Takara Bio Inc. company profile here

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