Article source: Nan Fang Daily 2012-03-20   
Author: Li Jie

DAAN Gene Co., Ltd. of SYSU, a listed enterprise in Guangzhou and Life Technologies, a biotech company among the word top 500 jointly launched the “Life DAAN Diagnostics Ltd. Program” recently. This cooperation aimed at introducing advanced foreign scientific and technological products into China’s in vitro diagnostic market and pushing DAAN’ products to the international market.

With its headquarter located in Guangzhou, the program will take advantage of Life Technologies’ 3500Dx genetic analyzer and DAAN’s industrial technology resources in China’s genetic diagnosis, thus providing support to in vitro diagnostic analysis of cancers, contagions, and genetic diseases. Life Technologies, a world top 500 biotech company listed on NASDAQ in the United States, achieved a sales volume of $ 3.6 billion in 2010. It is in possession of nearly 3,900 IPR patents and exclusive licenses and its products are exported to 160 countries and regions. DAAN Dene is a listed high-tech enterprise oriented in molecular diagnostic techniques. Its business covers a wide range, like R&D, production and sale of clinical test reagents and equipment, and clinical test services from national chain independent medical laboratories. As a model project base reflecting the value of industrialization of the Hi-Tech research outcomes, DAAN Gene has taken a large number of major scientific and technological programs of national and provincial level.