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Yourgene Offers Premaitha An Asian Reprieve From Illumina Patent Tussle

 
• By Tina Tan

Noninvasive prenatal testing specialist Premaitha Health has agreed to acquire Taiwan's Yourgene Bioscience, enabling the UK company to expand its presence in Asia. The deal also offers an important market that has not been tainted by ongoing patent litigation between Premaitha and US next-generation sequencing firm Illumina.

Premaitha Health PLC has conditionally agreed to acquire Yourgene Bioscience Co. Ltd, a Taiwanese specialist in noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) bioinformatics, in a bid to accelerate its expansion into Asia. The deal will also give Premaitha access to an important market beyond Europe, where the firm is currently embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with next-generation sequencing firm Illumina Inc. over alleged patent infringement.

Premaitha launched its flagship product, IONA, a blood test designed to estimate the risk of a fetus having Down's syndrome and other serious genetic diseases, in February 2015. The test...

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