NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2006--Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX - News; Nasdaq:ACTG - News) announced today that its CombiMatrix group, in collaboration with Texas A&M University, has been awarded a National Academies Keck Futures Initiative grant (NAKFI). The National Academies is comprised of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The grant will fund a novel method to increase the speed of hybridization in DNA microarray applications.
