Subject: Travenol-Genentech Gets Approval to Market Test
Date: Published: 10/22/85 27 lines
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

   Travenol-Genentech Gets
   Approval to Market Test

   DEERFIELD, Ill. -- A joint venture between Baxter Travenol
Laboratories Inc. and Genentech Inc. received federal
approval to sell a diagnostic test to screen donated blood
for the AIDS virus.
   Travenol-Genentech Diagnostics' test was the fifth to
receive Food and Drug Administration approval.  The other
tests for detecting the virus that causes acquired immune
deficiency syndrome are marketed by Abbott Laboratories Inc.,
ElectroNucleonics Inc., Litton Industries Inc. and Biotech
Research Laboratories Inc. and Du Pont Co. 
   Baxter Travenol makes a wide range of medical care
products.  Genentech, based in South San Francisco, Calif.,
develops and sells pharmaceuticals produced by recombinant
DNA technology.

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