It has drug and diagnostics deals with Roche Holding and is working to use diagnostic tests to improve a heart drug that Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) is developing.

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The company plans to move directly into a final-stage trial and is working on how to provide a diagnostic test for the gene.

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The team will work throughout the Bank Holiday weekend to finalise the kit before the next critical step, working in collaboration with the Molecular Diagnostic Centre in Alicante, Spain, to get it clinically validated.

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The researchers in the Science Translational Medicine paper, working directly with Illumina, first developed a diagnostic test that captured 600 genes that were likely to be the reason the babies wound up in the NICU. That panel is being sold as a kit by Illumina and will likely be used by some commercial laboratories that have government certifications to do diagnostic testing.

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And we're working very closely with them to ensure they have the right diagnostic tests so that they can diagnose conditions earlier and get appropriate treatments and therefore have a better survival rate.

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He also has investments in such outfits as Euromedic International, which operates diagnostic medical centers throughout Europe, and Broncus Technologies, which is working to develop lung disease treatments.

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