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Article: CombiMatrix and Texas A&M University Receive Grant from the National Academies; Joint Project Will Focus on Enhancing DNA Hybridization on Microarrays.
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- April 11, 2006
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX)(Nasdaq:ACTG) announced today that its CombiMatrix group, in collaboration with Texas A&M University, has been awarded a National Academies Keck Futures Initiative grant (NAKFI). The National Academies is comprised of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The grant will fund a novel method to increase the speed of hybridization in DNA microarray applications.
The co-Principal Investigators will be Dr. Robin Liu of CombiMatrix Corporation and Prof. Victor Ugaz of Texas A&M University. This award will enable the two collaborators to ...