HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.— Eppendorf North America and Akonni Biosystems haveentered into a joint marketing agreement to promote Akonni TruTip nucleic acidextraction kits configured for use with Eppendorf epMotion automated pipettingsystems. Under the agreement, Eppendorf will promote the extraction kits toclinical, clinical research and forensic laboratories in North America. Akonniwill initially introduce two high-throughput TruTip extraction kits for use onthe epMotion systems: one for isolating influenza RNA from nasal swab andnasopharyngeal aspirate samples, and a second for extracting genomic DNA fromsaliva. Akonni plans to develop and supply additional kits for the EppendorfepMotion family of systems in the near future.