Abstract:
Quantum Dot Corp., founded in late 1998 to manufacture nanocrystals for biomedical uses, recently took up with a very big kid - Japanese electronics giant Matsushita, perhaps best known for its Panasonic brand. The two companies will collaborate on developing tools for DNA detection and other diagnostic applications. Financial terms haven't been disclosed, but the partnership's first product debuted in September: a high throughput optical scanner targeted to the billion-dollar gene expression analysis market.