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By Paul Hamaker

The National Science Foundation awarded University of Alabama in Huntsville a $1,176,470 grant to develop inter-campus and intra-campus cyber connectivity at the HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), Alabama A & M University (AAMU) and Alabama State University (ASU) campuses.

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By Patrick Crutcher  

This small-cap company may be poised to be a long-term leader in cancer diagnostics and molecular testing. They combine innovative diagnostic technologies with world-class pathology expertise to assess and characterize cancer. The rise of individualized medicine as the new direction in oncology has created the need for a centralized resource providing leading diagnostic technologies, such as flow cytometry and molecular testing.

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SurModics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRDX), a leading provider of drug delivery and surface modification technologies to the healthcare industry and EGEN, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing nucleic acid (DNA and RNAi) therapeutics for the treatment of human diseases, are pleased to announce they have executed a continuation of their feasibility collaboration focused on long-term controlled release of siRNA complexes.

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Tests provide rapid, accurate diagnosis of 10 STDs and Herpes Simplex 1 and 2

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 27 /PRNewswire/ - DIATHERIX Laboratories (www.DIATHERIX.com), adds a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) panel and Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) panel to its line up of highly sensitive, rapid response diagnostic panels. The HSV panel identifies herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2 and the STD panel identifies 10 sexually transmitted diseases simultaneously, many of which cannot be accurately identified by current testing methods. These STD organisms, if not appropriately treated, can cause diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhoeae, chlamydia, bacterial vaginosis, etc. and may lead to blindness, infertility or complications during pregnancy.

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htimes_synthetic_oil_spill_solution.pdf

By Paul Gattis

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - How nice would it be if you could create something that would simply eat the oil that's polluting the Gulf of Mexico?

Don't laugh or roll your eyes. The ridiculous is becoming a reality.

"That is a goal," Huntsville scientist Lance Larka said. "That's what we want to do."