Idaho Technology Issues License to Kapa Biosystems, Inc.
SALT LAKE CITY–Idaho Technology, Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with Kapa Biosystems, Inc., covering reagents or methods using SYBR® Green I technology and melting curve analysis for real time PCR.
This extends Idaho Technology’s ongoing program to license its broad and valuable intellectual property portfolio in cooperation with Roche Diagnostics GmbH. The agreement follows a series of intellectual property licensing agreements with a number of other biotechnology companies over the last several months.
About Idaho Technology
Idaho Technology, Inc. is a privately held biotechnology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 1990, Idaho Technology licensed the rapid PCR technology from the University of Utah. Through funds from the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense, the company has created many commercial instruments and reagents for use in research and applied fields. Several of these products, including the LightCycler® Instrument, have been sublicensed to Roche Diagnostics. Researchers, medical technicians, law enforcement officers, and soldiers in the field use the company’s devices to detect or study disease-causing organisms. For further information, please visit www.idahotech.com.
About Kapa Biosystems
Kapa Biosystems is a next-generation life science reagents supplier that employs high-throughput molecular evolution to optimize enzymes for DNA amplification, DNA sequencing and molecular diagnostic applications. Kapa Biosystems offers a range of next-generation PCR and qPCR reagents including KAPA SYBR® FAST, KAPA PROBE FAST, KAPA HiFi DNA Polymerase, and KAPA2G Robust DNA Polymerase. These engineered DNA polymerases contain unique amino acid modifications that confer dramatic improvements to the functionality of the enzymes when compared to wild-type polymerases. The company is based in Woburn, Massachusetts with a research and development facility in Cape Town, South Africa. For more information about Kapa Biosystems, please visit the company’s website at www.kapabiosystems.com.
