Chiral Technologies Announces Purchase

RapidTips are single-use pipette tips for purifying PCR amplicons using selective adsorption. Potential applications include hybridization assays for diagnostic testing.

West Chester, PA 8/4/15—Chiral Technologies, a DAICEL company and provider of enantioselective chromatography, has acquired the assets of Diffinity Genomics for an undisclosed amount. Diffinity Genomics supplies the RapidTip technology for single-step rapid purification of amplified DNA fragments. ”The innovative, patented purification technology from Diffinity was a perfect choice for our expansion in the bio-separation/purification market space,” said Chiral COO Joseph Barendt, PhD. Diffinity Genomics CEO Joseph Marasco, PhD, will leave the company.

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