Strategic Diagnostics Inc. Enters Supply Agreement for Antibody Library for Study of Chromosome Proteins with University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

NEWARK, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Strategic Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: SDIX) – a leading provider of biotechnology-based detection solutions for a broad range of food, water, agricultural, industrial, environmental and life science applications, announced that it will be providing Jason Lieb’s Laboratory at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a library of antibodies produced through SDI’s proprietary Genomic Antibody Technology™ (GAT) platform. Lieb has selected these antibodies for use in his work that is part of the National Human Genome Research Institute’s model-organism ENCODE (modENCODE) Project. The project is working to identify and characterize DNA sequence elements and proteins that control genome activity in the Caenorhabditis elegans (worm) and Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) genomes. These two model organism species represent the most advanced models for the understanding of the corresponding human regulatory proteins.