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Biotech April 5, 2018

Memo to Applied DNA: It’s payday in Pennsylvania

By GREGORY ZELLER // Memorandums of understanding are swell and all, but for a scrappy enterprise forever waging a bottom-line battle, nothing beats getting paid. So, Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences should be very happy to receive the first of two “milestone payments” accompanying the March 31 signing of a new licensing deal with Pennsylvania manufacturer Colorcon Inc. Announced Thursday, the license and cooperation agreement grants Colorcon the exclusive worldwide right to add Applied DNA’s…

Biotech March 20, 2018

Applied DNA won’t let the bed thugs bite

By GREGORY ZELLER // You’ll sleep better knowing your gorgeous new bedding comes from 100 percent source-verified recycled plastic. So say global textiles manufacturer GHCL Ltd. and Applied DNA Sciences, the Stony Brook-based biotech that’s infusing its proprietary CertainT platform into the India-based conglomerate’s new Rekoop brand of bedding products. The CertainT molecular tagging and tracking technology will authenticate recycled plastics being spun into metaphorical gold: GHCL’s Rekoop line of bedsheets, pillowcases and shams, debuting…

Biotech March 6, 2018

Applied DNA journeys deeper into India, and pharma

By GREGORY ZELLER // A new professional collaboration will deepen a Long Island biotech’s ties with global pharmaceutical and nutraceutical manufacturers. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences has signed a memorandum of understanding with India-based global pharmaceutical conglomerate ACG Worldwide, which is tapping into the Long Island firm’s molecular-based authentication services. The MoU – which is “expected to be followed by a definitive agreement,” according to Applied DNA – will apply the biotech’s SigNature molecular tagging…

Biotech January 25, 2018

Smoking-hot biotech sparks key cannabis contract

By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s another new high for Applied DNA Sciences. Just days after introducing a new satellite laboratory in India to service its growing Asian-Pacific customer base, the Stony Brook-based biotech lit up again Thursday, announcing a new contract to develop molecular tracking systems for a worldwide network of legal cannabis supplies. The two-year, $1 million development and marketing agreement with Canadian supplier TheraCann International Benchmark Corp. – which provides turn-key pharmaceutical solutions…

Biotech January 23, 2018

For Applied DNA, a lucrative new passage to India

By GREGORY ZELLER // Growing interest from Asian-Pacific textile manufacturers has prompted a Long Island biotech to establish a new testing laboratory in India. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences on Tuesday announced the opening of its new Central DNA Testing Laboratory in Ahmedabad, a city of 5.6 million residents in the Western India state of Gujarat, a manufacturing and distribution hub advancing cotton and other textiles, as well as fertilizers, petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. From there,…

Biotech January 9, 2018

Applied DNA catches Irish robber blue/green-handed

By GREGORY ZELLER // Already the bane of Swedish car thieves, Applied DNA Sciences has now notched its first armed-robbery criminal conviction in Ireland. The latest international adventure for the Stony Brook-based anti-theft and product-authentication specialist and its ever-evolving roster of vertical markets takes us to the Emerald Isle, where evidence gathered through the biotech’s SigNature DNA platform has helped convict a thug involved in a violent theft. According to Applied DNA, the case involves…

Biotech December 18, 2017

Missiles, cars, leather … finally, biotech pushes pills

By GREGORY ZELLER // A biotech with a penchant for leather, foreign automobiles, high-tech weaponry and next-gen digital imaging is finally getting around to pharmaceuticals. Actually, that’s not true – Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences has already this year announced multiple pharma-nutra-focused forays, including the production of DNA chains for in-vitro diagnostic and DNA-based therapeutic research purposes. But in announcing a technology license memorandum of understanding with Pennsylvania-based “hard dose” specialist Colorcon Inc., Applied DNA…

Biotech December 5, 2017

Applied DNA is talking Turkey (and West Africa, too)

By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is in one of those modes again: another week, another big leap into a potentially lucrative geographic or vertical market. This week, it’s geographic, with a new federal mandate in the Republic of Turkey aiding the Stony Brook biotech’s efforts to develop new business there. Applied DNA on Tuesday announced plans to introduce DNA-tagged fertilizer to Turkey and countries in West Africa and Asia, amidst strong interest in…

Biotech November 30, 2017

As biopharma blossoms, ace DNA producer locks in

By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences has long proclaimed textiles – your cotton shirt, your leather shoes and the industries that produce them – as its primary vertical market, the ideal sector in which to apply its patented DNA-based security and authentication protocols. But a wholly different use for its coveted DNA supplies may soon eclipse textile-tracking as the Stony Brook biotech’s primary moneymaker. That’s the word from President and CEO James Hayward, who…

Biotech November 6, 2017

Applied DNA earns new SigNature patent, more T’d up

By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences has added two new U.S. patents to its impressive collection – at least, a new patent-and-a-half. The Stony Brook-based supply-chain, anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft and product-authentication specialist announced this week the arrival of U.S. Patent No. 9,790,538, covering “Alkaline Activation for Immobilization of DNA Taggants” – essentially, protecting the core technology powering Applied DNA’s SigNature T molecular tags. The biotech also announced a Notice of Allowance on U.S. Patent Application…

Biotech October 23, 2017

With license and library deals, biotech spreads its DNA

By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s been a banner month for Applied DNA Sciences, with two new deals both reaffirming the biotech’s scientific value and significantly extending its commercial reach. On Friday, the provider of DNA-focused supply chain, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technologies announced that its SigNature molecular tag technology had been added to global materials-innovator Material ConneXion’s prestigious library – exposing Applied DNA’s wares to scientists, manufacturers and makers around the world, a potentially enormous commercial…

Biotech September 26, 2017

Printing partnership takes Applied DNA global, again

By GREGORY ZELLER // Diversity-driven Stony Brook biotech Applied DNA Sciences has added yet another vertical market to its rapidly expanding collection: laser printers. And not just printers and inks but third parties that use them to tag their products, packaging and supply-chain components, all available through a new “strategic partnership” between Applied DNA and Videojet Technologies. Under the guidance of an all-star business-development team, the biotech – which specializes in can’t-be-copied, can’t-be-broken DNA-based security…

Biotech September 12, 2017

Applied DNA enlists with Army’s bio-warfare defenders

By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is in the Army now. Already under U.S. Department of Defense contract on a number of different projects, the Stony Brook-based biotech has entered into a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. Best known as a developer and distributor of in-house botanical-DNA-based security and authentication protocols, Applied DNA is lending its expertise in a slightly different…

Biotech August 28, 2017

Global nod marks major milestone for Applied DNA

By GREGORY ZELLER // An esteemed international certification organization has stamped a ginning company tracking its cotton supplies with the help of Applied DNA Sciences. The Global Organic Textile Standard certification is another feather in the cap of the Stony Brook biotech, which has long banked on cotton and other textile-focused industries as a business-development cornerstone. The certification was awarded to Woolam Gin of Texas, an Applied DNA “ginning partner,” by Netherlands-based Control Union Certifications,…

Biotech August 8, 2017

For Applied DNA, real growth in fertilizer

By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences, the Stony Brook biotech, has spent 2017 aggressively introducing its DNA-based supply chain, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technologies to new industries and markets – and now adds fertilizer, a critical commodity for global farmers, to its growing list. Less than a month after applying its CertainT authentication platform to plastics – specifically, thermoplastic polymer resin – through a multi-year licensing deal with Indian global textile manufacturer GHCL Ltd., Applied…