HocusLocus LLC, spun out of SUNY Polytechnic Institutes College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, develops molecular tools and therapeutics based on the company's structurally interacting RNA (sxRNA) platform technology. The firm's sxRNA technology acts like a nano-switch that can turn on protein production in specific cells, tissues and disease states. Applications for this technology include Cell Line Development and Antiviral Therapy.