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Crystal Diagnostics™ was founded in 2006 to further develop and commercialize novel liquid crystal technology to detect pathogens in liquids. The Company is the first to use liquid crystals as a biosensor.  This technology had been patented by Kent State University and the Northeast Ohio Medical University. Earlier, the technology had been proven via a substantial grant from the U.S. Army in 2003 related to water safety concerns for U.S. troops.

Since 2006, the Company has designed and built the system -- namely, a reader and a five-cell cassette -- as well as developed the software necessary to move the technology from the laboratory to commercial applications. The unique testing process detects multiple pathogens (for example, multiple E. coli strains and salmonella) in a single test, rapidly and reliably. The Company is concentrating initially on food safety testing.

Crystal Diagnostics Ltd. maintains a software and engineering office in Broomfield, Colo. and Bioscience laboratories at the Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio, and a manufacturing plant in Kent State University's Centennial Research Park in Kent, Ohio.

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