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Shortlist Announced for UKTI Business Innovation Awards 2010

The prestigious Business Innovation Awards 2010, which showcases the very best of UK innovation in science and technology, has announced the nine companies shortlisted for its three award categories – emerging + na...

25 Nov 2010

AIXTRON Receives Order for CRIUS Deposition Systems from United LED Shan Dong Corporation

AIXTRON today announced an order for six 31x2-inch configuration CRIUS deposition systems from new customer United LED Shan Dong Corporation (ULED). After successful installation and commissioning of the systems in ULED&...

From AIXTRON SE 25 Nov 2010

Puralytics Wins Cleantech Open Award for Nanotechnology-Based Water Purification System

The Cleantech Open today released the complete list of winners that were announced at the 2010 Cleantech Open National Awards Gala and Expo. Dubbed the "Academy Awards of Clean Technology," the event marked the...

25 Nov 2010

Xilinx Unveils Spartan-6 FPGA-Based Targeted Design Platforms

Xilinx, Inc. today announced at SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2010 three new industrial Targeted Design Platforms based on the low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA family, which will help engineers increase performance and reduce time to market for PROFINET real time networking, advanced motor control, and GigE Vision industrial imaging applications.

25 Nov 2010

STMicroelectronics Announces Delivery of One Billionth MEMS Sensor

STMicroelectronics the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices for consumer and portable applications(1), today announced it has shipped its one billionth MEMS sensor.

From STMicroelectronics 25 Nov 2010

NanoIsrael 2010 Committee Names Camtek’s SELA among Top 10 Nanotechnology Companies

Camtek Ltd. announced that SELA - Semiconductor Engineering Laboratories Ltd. ("SELA"), whose share capital was fully acquired by Camtek in November 2009, was chosen as one of the top 10 nanotechnology companies in Israel by the NanoIsrael 2010 Committee.

25 Nov 2010

DirectRooms.com's Eilat Conference Covers Nanophotonics

The event, organised by the Association of Engineers and Architects in Israel, features Dr Jacob Scheuer as General Chair, with co-chairs in the form of Professor Antonello Cutolo, Professor Mario N. Armenise and Profess...

25 Nov 2010

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Announces Key Patents for Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, announced today that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) have issued key patents covering elements of Tekmira's leading lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology, which is used to deliver nucleic acid therapeutics, including small interfering RNA (siRNA).

25 Nov 2010

Sigma Xi Scientific Society Awards MIT Student for Outstanding Nano Research

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering graduate student Eric Forrest won the Superior Presentation Award at the 2010 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and International Research Conference for his presentation on "Nano...

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 25 Nov 2010

New Nanosensor to Identify Hijack of Plant Nutrients by Pathogens

Infestation by bacteria and other pathogens result in global crop losses of over $500 billion annually. A research team led by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology developed a novel trick for ide...

25 Nov 2010

Scientists Discover How Cells Stabilize Machinery While Splitting

Scientists have discovered an amazingly simple way that cells stabilize their machinery for forcing apart chromosomes.

25 Nov 2010

Grifols Announces Availability of Flebogamma Intravenous Immune Globulin in the US

Grifols today announced availability of its recently approved Flebogamma® 10% DIF intravenous immune globulin. Grifols is a global healthcare company specializing in bioscience medicines derived from human plasma....

25 Nov 2010

MEMSIC Releases New Series of MEMS Gas Mass Flow Meters

MEMSIC, Inc. a leading innovator of MEMS sensors and systems solutions, today announced its first generation family of high-performance MEMS Gas Mass Flow Meters.

From MEMSIC Inc. 25 Nov 2010

Experimental Physicists Find New Technique to Build Ideal Quantum Simulator

A quantum simulator is a variant of a quantum computer that allows us to outperform classical computers in the understanding of complex quantum systems. There are two fundamental aspects that make these devices attrac...

25 Nov 2010

UC Engineers Develop Miniaturized Short Pulse Generator for Computers

Electrical engineers generated short, powerful light pulses on a chip – an important step toward the optical interconnects that will likely replace the copper wires that carry information between chips within today's computers.

25 Nov 2010