LC Sciences and DNAVision form Strategic Marketing Alliance

08-May-2008

LC Sciences announced that it has entered into a strategic marketing alliance with DNAVision to increase accessibility to its custom microRNA profiling service and enhance both its customer and technical service to researchers in Europe.

"We are very excited about this alliance with DNAVision, clearly one of the quality leaders of microarray and other molecular biology services," says Chris Hebel, Director of Business Development at LC Sciences. "Although we are currently serving customers globally from our headquarters in the U.S., we felt is was important to extend our reach and provide local service to areas where there is a concentration of microRNA research occurring, like Europe. DNAVision has extensive microarray and microRNA expertise in-house and can provide not only ordering convenience but also real technical guidance to researchers in this rapidly advancing field."

"We are delighted to combine our quality gene expression services with the technology developed by LC Sciences." said Jean-Pol Detiffe, CEO of DNAVision. "This agreement is a new evidence that DNAVision is becoming the technical partner of choice for microRNA expression profiling, using all the latest technologies available on the market" added Michäel Herman, DNAVision, Business Development Director.

MicroRNAs and other small RNAs found in non-coding regions of genomes have recently been found to regulate the expression of genes acting in a wide range of biology systems. The study of microRNA has attracted intense attention and is a rapidly evolving field. Although the regulatory functions of many known microRNAs are still not fully understood, many more microRNAs are continually being discovered. The number of microRNA sequences in the public database (miRBase) has been increasing steadily as new microRNAs are experimentally verified and deposited there.

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