DNA firm wins trial military contract
Photo credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara | James Hayward, chief executive of Applied DNA Sciences Inc. in Stony Brook. (April 25, 2011)
Applied DNA Sciences Inc. said Wednesday it has won a $1-million trial contract from the Defense Department after it successfully completed an anti-counterfeiting trial program in which it marked military-grade microchips with unique strands of DNA.
The test was done for the Defense Logistics Agency as part of Stony Brook-based Applied DNA's effort to gain a large-scale U.S. military contract.
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