“We are very pleased that TrovaGene has regained the prenatal development rights to diagnostic products based on our transrenal technology,” commented Dr. Thomas Adams, TrovaGene’s Chairman. “This gives us the opportunity to expand our business in the women’s healthcare market beyond our advanced HPV screening program based on urine samples, which can be obtained non-invasively and in complete privacy.”

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Most DNA tests on the market use blood.

Until now, TrovaGene's business strategy has been to leverage its proprietary urine-based nucleic acid testing platform toward the development of diagnostic assays for the screening of infectious diseases. It has alliances with Skyline Diagnostics B.V., Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp), InVivoScribe Technologies, Inc., Warnex Inc., IPSOGEN SA, Eastern Virginia Medical School, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, etc.

TrovaGene officials say the company has a dominant patent position as it relates to transrenal molecular testing. Issued U.S. and European patents cover any and all testing for molecular targets that pass through the kidney. In addition to these core patents, TrovaGene has numerous patent applications pending in the areas of cancer, infectious diseases, transplantation, prenatal and genetic testing. This patent position rivals the importance of the Roche PCR and Gen-Probe ribosomal RNA patents in the molecular diagnostic field.

Here is a look at the top 20 market movers from the healthcare sector on Wednesday August 10, 2011:

Company	Quote	Change	Change%	Market Cap
China Pharma Holdings, Inc.	2.25	+0.40	21.62	97.66M
Biolase Technology, Inc.	3.33	+0.55	19.78	94.72M
Senesco Technologies, Inc.	0.255	+0.029	13.03	19.66M
NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	0.790	+0.090	12.86	18.53M
Apricus Bioscience Inc	3.90	+0.42	12.12	76.97M
American Medical Alert	5.70	+0.61	11.98	54.83M
Allied Healthcare Product	3.99	+0.42	11.76	32.42M
WorldHeart Corporation (USA)	0.400	+0.040	11.11	10.67M
Bioanalytical Systems, Inc.	1.55	+0.15	10.71	7.62M
Retractable Technologies, Inc.	1.38	+0.11	8.53	33.12M
VirtualScopics, Inc.	1.23	+0.09	7.89	35.72M
American Caresource Holdings, Inc.	0.970	+0.070	7.78	16.44M
Psychemedics Corp.	8.51	+0.61	7.72	44.51M
Prana Biotechnology Limited (ADR)	1.61	+0.11	7.33	38.98M
PAREXEL International Corporation	18.44	+1.25	7.27	1.09B
Concord Medical Services Hldg Ltd (ADR)	4.05	+0.23	6.02	63.49M
Rosetta Genomics Ltd. (USA)	1.07	+0.06	5.84	8.03M
Fonar Corporation	1.77	+0.08	4.90	10.45M
NeuroMetrix, Inc.	0.450	+0.020	4.65	10.50M
Neuralstem, Inc.	1.15	+0.05	4.55	55.76M

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