Genteon Sells Capella 400 System to Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences for Key Plant Genomics Research Project.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2003 Genteon Inc. today announced that it has sold its Capella 400(TM) genetic analysis system to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. (Veterinary science, but not animal science, is often excluded from the definition. , located in Beijing. The Academy will use the Capella 400 in connection with its China Agricultural Plant Gene Resources and Gene Melioration mel·io·ra·tion n. 1. a. The act or process of improving something or the state of being improved. b. An improvement. 2. Engineering Project. Genteon's Capella 400 was selected due to its superior high throughput and low operating cost. The Capella 400, with Dynamic Fluorescence fluorescence (fl  rĕs`əns), luminescence in which light of a visible color is emitted from a substance under stimulation or excitation by light or other forms of electromagnetic (TM) detection, is a fully automated, high-capacity (384 channel) capillary electrophoresis Capillary electrophoresis (CE), also known as capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), can be used to separate ionic species by their charge and frictional forces. In traditional electrophoresis, electrically charged analytes move in a conductive liquid medium under the system that does not require the use of expensive fluorescent dyes Noun 1. fluorescent dye - a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and . The Capella 400 greatly increases the speed and reduces the cost of genetic analysis, while providing versatility for an unprecedented range of applications. "The Chinese market combines a high-growth economy, a strategic resolve to rapidly expand research facilities in the fields of human and plant genomics, as well as large and growing public expenditure budgets. This makes China a natural and most attractive market for Genteon's product line in the near future," said Pascal Brandys Pascal Brandys (born November 30, 1958 in Roanne) is a French engineer and entrepreneur. He is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and he received his M.S. in Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1982. , co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Genteon. "To further address this exciting Chinese market, Genteon has entered into a distribution agreement with Beijing Genosys Tech-Trading Company, a specialist in the field of life sciences research products, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu," said Brandys. Genteon Inc., headquartered in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , has developed a leading technology platform designed to address a wide variety of genetics and proteomics research applications. Genteon's revolutionary Dynamic Fluorescence detection technology, which eliminates the need for costly fluorescent dyes, allows the Capella 400 to address an unparalleled diversity of applications with high accuracy, high throughput and lowest operating cost. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences established on March 1, 1957, is not only a national agricultural research institution with multiple disciplines, but also an academic center for agricultural research in China. The Academy undertakes as its major tasks the applied research as well as applied basic research on agriculture and reinforces the developmental research to solve the key scientific problems with overall importance in national agricultural economy and to provide research achievements and services for the realization of agricultural modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, in China. |
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