St. Louis, Missouri and Bangalore,
India
July 9, 2008
Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq:
SIAL) and Metahelix Life
Sciences today announced a partnership under which Metahelix
will assist in developing applications data for Sigma-Aldrich's
plant bioscience product line, and provide expert technological
guidance regarding usage. The efforts of this collaboration will
occur in Metahelix's existing facility, located adjacent to
Sigma-Aldrich's manufacturing and distribution center in
Bangalore, India, and provide support for Sigma-Aldrich
customers throughout the Pacific Rim and Latin America.
"The plant biotechnology market is growing rapidly in Latin
America and Asia as biofuels and the rapid expansion of urban
centers drives increased demand for higher productivity crops,"
said Susan Riley, director of international business at
Sigma-Aldrich. "This partnership with Metahelix is expected to
enable us to support our customers with practical guidance by a
firm that works with a number of different species of plants."
Guatham Nadig, head of research and development at Metahelix,
said: "Metahelix will benefit from visibility of new tools
available to develop our commercial offerings in the plant
bioscience area."
Sigma-Aldrich serves the plant biotechnology research market
with a variety of genomic and proteomic solutions, including
whole genome amplification and RNA purification kits. The Company's leading
Extract-N-Amp™ plant PCR technology dramatically reduces the
amount of time required to extract and amplify genomic DNA from
plant tissue, facilitating rapid screening. Sigma-Aldrich's
SpyLine™ plant mRNA capture kits allow for the isolation of
mRNA and performance of RT-PCR in a single 96-well PCR plate
incorporating Oligo (dT) primers, eliminating transfer steps and
increasing throughput. Unique to the market, the Company's
Spectrum™ Plant Total RNA Kits succeed where most protocols
fail, employing patent-pending lysis and binding chemistry to
purify total RNA from plant tissues that contain high levels of
secondary metabolites.
To learn more about Sigma-Aldrich's extensive offering of
products and kits for the plant bioscience research community,
visit
http://www.sigma-aldrich.com/plant.
About Sigma-Aldrich: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and
High Technology company. Its biochemical and organic chemical
products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research,
biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of
disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high
technology manufacturing. The Company has customers in life
science companies, university and government institutions,
hospitals, and in industry. Over one million scientists and
technologists use its products. Sigma-Aldrich operates in 36
countries and has 7,900 employees providing excellent service
worldwide. Sigma-Aldrich is committed to Accelerating Customer
Success through Leadership in Life Science, High Technology and
Service.
About Metahelix: Metahelix is an agricultural biotechnology
company focusing on developing traits and technologies for crop
protection & improved productivity. Hybrid Seeds and traits are
commercialized by its wholly owned subsidiary seeds business
Dhaanya Seeds. Metahelix also provides customized research to
select global Ag-biotech business using its proprietary
technologies in crop transformation and functional genomics.
Metahelix is based at Bangalore India, which is home to a
growing number of new-age high technology ventures.
Sigma-Aldrich, Spectrum, SpyLine and Extract-N-Amp are
trademarks of Sigma-Aldrich Biotechnology L.P. and Sigma-Aldrich
Co.
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