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Applied DNA To Speed Up Coronavirus Countermeasures

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By GREGORY ZELLER
Look out, coronavirus – Applied DNA is coming for you.

Adding to its growing portfolio of cutting-edge Polymerase Chain Reaction-based projects, Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences is expanding its Joint Development Agreement with Italian R&D company Takis Biotech, with the headline-making 2019-nCoV in their sights.

Already hot on the trail of new cancer vaccines, the partners will now work on a “linear DNA” vaccine against the dreaded Wuhan, China-based illness that’s sweeping the globe.

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