The U.S. Army has placed a purchase order with Universal Detection Technology for its 5-agent detection kits as well as for equipment for the detection of ricin and staphylococcal enterotoxin B.

DNA Technology
California's Stanislaus County has announced plans to upgrade its health lab to add sophisticated equipment that will be used to test for potential bioterrorism agents.

DNA
The Department of Health and Human Services has warned U.S. businesses trading in DNA to be on guard against abuses leading to bioterrorism.

Microchip Biotechnologies, Inc.
Howard Goldstein has been named to the position of executive vice president of commercial affairs at Microchip Biotechnologies, Inc.

DNA
A set of guidelines for how providers of custom-made DNA sequences do business has been proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

DNA
The five companies - DNA 2.0, GeneArt, GenScript, Integrated DNA Technologies and Blue Heron Biotechnology - provide 80 percent of global gene synthesis capacity.