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Agilent Expands Capacity for Nucleic Acid-based Therapeutics

Investment of $725 million will double capacity to produce APIs used in therapeutics for a broad range of diseases.

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Agilent Technologies is investing approximately $725 million to double manufacturing capacity of therapeutic nucleic acids in response to rapid growth of the $1 billion market and strong demand for the company’s active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Therapeutic nucleic acids, also called therapeutic oligonucleotides or oligos, are short DNA and RNA molecules that serve as the API for drugs targeting a growing number of diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and rare and infect...

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