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May 20, 2004
HomelandDefenseStocks.com Reports on Biodefense & Chemical Detection Stocks Following Approval of Project BioShield $5.6 Billion Bill
POINT ROBERTS, Wash., May 20, 2004 - www.HomelandDefenseStocks.com, (HDS) an investment research portal for the Homeland Defense and Security Sector, reports on the Senate Approval of Project BioShield, a $5.6 Billion bill allocating funds over ten years for stockpiling new vaccines and developing countermeasures to protect against bioterrorism attacks. Additionally the bill will incite research in the public and private arenas. Biodefense stocks Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Vical, Inc. and VaxGen, Inc. rallied in response to the vote, with Hollis-Eden realizing strong gains. According to research by Frost and Sullivan (World Chemical and Biological Agent Detector Markets), the future for both biological and chemical detection markets looks positive as ongoing terrorist activities create an urgent demand for detection and protection solutions. A major challenge for the Department of Homeland Security is finding new methods to detect and identify ambient pathogens in real-time. Current procedures entail laboratory analysis that can only identify an attack long after it has happened. Companies that successfully develop portable, durable biosensors that can be effectively deployed by first responders can expect a ready market for their products.
Chemical weapons are organic and inorganic chemical substances harmful to humans including Nerve Agents such as VX, Sarin, Soman, and Tabun, Blister Agentssuch as Sulfur-Mustards, Phosgene Oxime, Nitrogen-Mustards, Blood agents like Cyanogen Chloride and Hydrogen Cyanide and Choking Agents including Ammonia.
Biological weapons are diseases that can be used as potential military weapons including Anthrax, Plague, Ricin, and Smallpox. There are several private and public companies competing in the chemical detection and biodefense sector.
HDS Featured Companies: Biological and chemical weapons detection and medical countermeasures:
Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: AEMD) www.AethlonMedical.com is pioneering the development of viral filtration devices that rapidly reduce the presence of infectious disease and toxins in the body. The Company is developing pathogen filtration devices to treat infectious agents used in biological warfare and terrorism. The Hemopurifier is a proprietary platform technology that converges the established scientific principles of affinity chromatography and hemodialysis as a means to augment the immune response of clearing viruses and toxins from the blood before cell and organ infection can occur. The Company has a cooperative agreement with the National Center for Biodefense at George Mason University to collaborate to develop pathogen and toxin filtration devices to protect the lives of U.S. Military personnel exposed to biological warfare.
Markland Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MRKL) www.marklandtech.com. is positioned in the chemical detection sector with its subsidiary; Virginia based Science and Technology Research, Inc. (STR) and its Shipboard Automatic Chemical Agent Detection and Alarm System (ACADA). The ACADA is an automatic chemical agent alarm system capable of detecting, warning and identifying blister and nerve agents simultaneously. The ACADA is man-portable, operates independently after system start-up, provides an audible and visual alarm, and provides communication interface to support battlefield automation systems. Markland is pursuing sales for the chemical detector products through, government agencies, local municipalities, cities, and commercial markets. The Company recently completed a marketing agreement with Tradeways Ltd. to sell the shipboard version of ACADA systems to foreign militaries.
Roaming Messenger, Inc. (OTCBB: RMSG) www.roamingmessenger.com is a breakthrough wireless solution for delivering real-time actionable information, to the right person, right away. The Company is currently in a partnership with FirstWatch™ from Stout Solutions, LLC as the Smart Messaging component of their Bio-Surveillance system. FirstWatchTM is an early warning syndromic and biosurveillance system designed to monitor real time public safety 911 and other key data sources for abnormalities that may indicate a stealth biological attack or other significant user defined event. Roaming Messenger provides capabilities beyond existing e-mail, text messaging and voicemail solutions by packaging time-critical information and decision points into a "smart courier" message. The result is a messenger that roams throughout the wired and wireless worlds - from mobile devices to desktop PCs to central servers - tracking down people and getting responses in real-time.
Project BioShield: a comprehensive effort to develop and make available modern, effective drugs and vaccines to protect against attack by biological and chemical weapons or other dangerous pathogens.
Full details, click here: http://www.investorideas.com/Companies/HomelandDefense/News/ProjectBioShield.asp
Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/Agent/Agentlist.asp
HomelandDefenseStock.com includes a growing list of public companies in the sector. Click here for a partial list of companies involved in homeland defense and security technology and solutions in Airport Security, Biodefense, Biometrics, Defense, Internet Security, Integrated Security, Military, Border and Port Security. www.investorideas.com/Companies/HomelandDefense/Articles/StockList.asp
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The site does not make recommendations but offers an information portal to investors to research news, articles, and recent research. The site is currently compensated by its "featured companies": Aethlon Medical, Inc., MDM Group, Inc., Markland Technologies, Inc., Roaming Messenger, Inc., Spectrum Sciences & Software Holdings Corp. (OTCBB: SPSC) and Viscount Systems, Inc. but the current list of stocks is provided as a free research tool to investors.
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Toll free: 800-665-0411
Email: dvanzant@investorideas.com or truehs@investorideas.com
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