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News Release from: Perkin Elmer LAS (UK) | Subject: Maternal health screening
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2005
Agreement to expand prenatal risk
assessment
PerkinElmer secures rights to manufacture and sell kits to measure free beta human chorionic gonadotrophin (free hCGa) in liquid blood for risk assessment of foetal anomalies during pregnancy
PerkinElmer and JN Macri Technologies have signed an agreement which gives PerkinElmer rights to manufacture and sell kits for the measurement of free beta human chorionic gonadotrophin (free hCGa) in liquid blood for risk assessment of foetal anomalies during pregnancy As a marker of Down's syndrome and other trisomies, free hCGa is an important means of improving the efficacy of risk assessment within the first trimester of pregnancy
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 5 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The technology covered under the agreement includes reagents used to detect amounts of free hCGa in the blood of pregnant women, and software that utilises free hCGa measurements to calculate the risk of a foetus having chromosomal abnormalities.
"We are pleased to expand our capabilities in the high growth area of maternal health screening," said Peter Coggins, president of PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences.
"With our leading edge screening technologies, early detection programmes increase treatment and management options and improve the quality of life".
"Measurement of free hCGa allows for a noninvasive, highly accurate risk assessment during pregnancy," said JN Macri, president and chief executive officer of JN Macri Technologies.
"We are pleased that our agreement with PerkinElmer will enable greater market access to this important technology.".
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