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Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Defense Awards $2.2 Million to CombiMatrix for Anti-Terrorism and Infectious-Disease Products
August 14th, 2007
Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX)(Nasdaq:ACTG) announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded a one-year, $2.2 million contract to CombiMatrix for further development of its microarray technologies for a multipathogen- and chemical-detection system. Under previously funded programs with the DoD, CombiMatrix has demonstrated that its products can simultaneously detect toxins, viruses, and bacteria using its semiconductor-based microarrays. Unique to this platform is its "on chip" electrochemical detection process, which eliminates the need for complex, expensive, and less-portable optical instrumentation. These systems are currently in use at...
Source: Virus Weekly (2007-08-14)
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