Defense Logistics Agency re-ups on DNA markers
A federal contract extension will keep Applied DNA Sciences knee-deep in microcircuits for another year at least. The Stony Brook biotech said Monday that the Defense Logistics Agency has awarded…
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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…
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…
Codagenix scores again: $3M to hunt down deadly RSV
By GREGORY ZELLER // A fresh $3 million in public and private investments has set Codagenix Inc. on the trail of another nefarious disease. Already developing vaccines for Zika virus,…
In REDC love fest, CSHL kicks off $75M makeover
By GREGORY ZELLER // There was another major advance for biochemistry Thursday at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, but this one didn’t involve gas chromatographs or infrared spectrometers or a single…
NIH sees a need for speed in Traverse Biosciences
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Institutes of Health has welcomed a rising Stony Brook biotech into its competitive Commercialization Accelerator Program. Traverse Biosciences, which is attempting to commercialize novel…
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…
Feds back NYIT professors on RNA-sequencing quest
By GREGORY ZELLER // Diverse disciplines are coming together at NYIT, where a multi-year National Institutes of Health grant is fueling next-level RNA research – and, possibly, opening a new…
Startup sails past $1M, considers second employee
By GREGORY ZELLER // A key e-commerce alliance has pushed an innovative skin-care company past $1 million in revenues – and has the biotech’s only full-time employee thinking expansion, in…
Re-Nuble targets USDA over ‘organic’ certifications
By GREGORY ZELLER // A “waste-to-value” biotech with Long Island roots is taking its food-for-all message to the people – and is taking on the U.S. Department of Agriculture over…
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…
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…
ALZ: Genetic variants can run, but they can’t hide
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is targeting genetic risk factors behind Alzheimer’s disease, the first of many steps toward new potential treatments. Feinstein Institute assistant professor Yun Freudenberg-Hua has…
NYIT: ‘Lethal interactions’ could stop tough cancers
New York Institute of Technology researchers may have found a way to stop cancerous tumors from spreading through the central nervous system. And for some patients suffering from the worst…
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 –…