Strength In Genetic Research Example Of University Of Houston’s Ability To Solve Challenges Of 21st Century

In a move that demonstrates the commercial appeal of research coming out of the University of Houston, a local company created by six of its professors was sold to a global conglomerate in the disease-research and drug-discovery industries. VisiGen Biotechnologies Inc., a biotechnology company created by UH researchers working on a new process that will be used to sequence individual human genomes, was acquired for $20 million from Invitrogen Corp.

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