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Is it bird flu? Biotech company helps deliver a quick answer.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-APR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Is it bird flu? Biotech company helps deliver a quick answer.(RESEARCH GRANTS)(EraGen Biosciences Inc.)(Small Business Administration financial assistance)

Article Excerpt
For the past few years, a small Wisconsin company has been developing detection systems for such increasing medical threats as SARS and avian influenza.

With the help of grant money from the competitive Small Business Innovation Research program, EraGen Biosciences Inc. is taking cutting-edge science and creating genetic-based products for the diagnostics and drag discovery markets.

Among the company's successes is a Food and Drug Administration-approved HIV test using EraGen technology and a test for severe acute respiratory syndrome that has been validated in Canada, China and the United States.

EraGen also helped develop a test for cystic fibrosis in newborns, cutting to three hours results that used to take three days. And it has worked on developing tests for anthrax, smallpox and...

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