Applied StemCell, Inc. (ASC) announced today it has signed a strategic agreement with Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) for the distribution of ASC’s genetically modified TARGATT™ mouse. With this agreement, Charles River becomes the worldwide distributor of the TARGATT™ (FVB) mouse. ASC’s IP based technology

TARGATT™ allows a gene of interest to be stably integrated into  a well-characterized, transcriptionally-active locus in the mouse genome with guaranteed transgene expression. With the TARGATT™ (FVB) mouse and transgenic kit (available from ASC), researchers are able to generate a site-specific knock-in mouse in as fast as 3 months...