Genetix Group, MRC Enter [pounds sterling]2.5M Project On Protein Interactions.(Medical Research Council)

BioWorld International Correspondent

LONDON - Genetix Group plc is teaming up with the UK Medical Research Council in a [pounds sterling]2.5 million (US$3.9 million), three-year project to develop and validate high-throughput systems to automate the measurement of protein-protein interactions in mammalian cells, which the MRC will then use to help generate a verified human protein-protein interaction map.

Genetix, based in New Milton, provided robots and systems for seven of the eight public laboratories involved in the Human Genome Project. It will now apply the expertise to build instrumentation for the analysis of millions of potential protein-protein interactions …