Article: Pyrosequencing and Thomas Jefferson University to Develop Applications for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Pyrosequencing AB (Stockholm: PYRO A) and Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, announced today that they have entered into a sponsored research agreement to analyze genes and develop applications for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Thomas Jefferson University recently purchased a PSQ(TM)HS 96A System, Pyrosequencing's high sensitivity genotyping platform, to advance clinical molecular genetics research including IBD.

"This genotyping system developed by Pyrosequencing will allow us to develop a new gene-based diagnostic tool that we expect to be much simpler and faster, while as effective as current methods," said Paolo Fortina, M.D., Ph.D., professor of ...

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