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Better Understanding of Conga Dance inside Cells

Understanding the steps to the intricate dance inside a cell is essential to one day choreographing the show. By studying the molecules that give a cell its structure, University of Illinois researchers are moving closer to understanding one of those steps: the conga line.

17 Mar 2010

Envia Systems Awarded $4 Million Grant from U.S. Department of Energy

Envia Systems announced today that it was awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and $1 million from the California Energy Commission (CEC).

17 Mar 2010

Platform Validation Yields More than Twenty Such Novel Peptides

Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN) announced today the development and validation of its Intracellular Drug Delivery (IDD) discovery platform for identification of cell penetrating peptides. Compugen also announced that as par...

17 Mar 2010

Camtek to Provide 3D Integration Inspection Solution to Taiwan Foundry

Camtek Ltd., announced today that a leading Semiconductor Foundry in Taiwan has selected the Falcon, Camtek's Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) system, for metrology and inspection solution for the 3D integration circuits ("3D IC") process.

17 Mar 2010

McGinnis Venture Competition Launches New Companies on the Road to Success

A promising cure for ovarian cancer seeking funding to begin clinical trials; a person-to-person car-sharing program that could reduce carbon emissions; a device to enable power-generation facilities to save billions of ...

17 Mar 2010

Project Aims at Extremely Fast and Energy-Efficient Chips for Telecommunication

Economy and information society are dependent on rapid internet communication. The encoded data rushes through optical fibers in the form of light, but they are still processed electronically. This transition costs time and energy.

17 Mar 2010

Carl Zeiss Holds Eleventh "Day of Microscopy"

Carl Zeiss will be holding the eleventh "Day of Microscopy", this time under the motto "Travel to New Dimensions". Launched in November 2009 in a campaign with the same name, the ELYRA and LSM 780 mic...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 17 Mar 2010

ST and Mentor Graphics Join Hands to Develop SoC Design Tools at 32-nm

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in electronic design automation, and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world's leading semiconductor suppliers, today announced a broad-scoped collaboration to develop advanced design solutions at the 32-nm technology node and down to 20-nm node.

From STMicroelectronics 17 Mar 2010

Small, Fast X-Ray Sources Based on Nanotubes

Researchers from Siemens are investigating the use of small, fast X-ray sources based on nanotubes. In combination with a computer tomograph (CT) scanner, these could serve to generate high-quality images of rapid processes within the human body, such as the dispersion of a contrast medium.

17 Mar 2010

Quantum Computing in isotopically Engineered Diamond

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (abbreviated DFG, German Research Foundation in English) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency ( JST) are launching the research project "Quantum Computing in isotopically E...

17 Mar 2010

Canadian MP Tabled Bill Including Nanotechnology in Canadian Environmental Protection Act

Peter Julian, MP for Burnaby-New Westminster, today tabled Bill C-494 in the House of Commons that will include nanotechnology in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and require the Health and Environment Minister...

17 Mar 2010

Silicon Wafer Supplier MEMC Becomes SOI Industry Consortium Member

The SOI Industry Consortium, aimed at accelerating silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation across broad markets, announced today that MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: WFR) has joined the worldwide organization.

From GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. 17 Mar 2010

IMT Technology for Capella's Next-Generation MEMS Devices

Capella Intelligent Subsystems, Inc. and Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. announced today the formation of a strategic foundry relationship.

17 Mar 2010

AIXTRON Receives Order from EMPA for Black Magic CNT Deposition System

AIXTRON AG today announced an order for one Black Magic CNT (carbon nanotube) deposition system from the Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (EMPA), Switzerland. The order was received in the...

From AIXTRON SE 17 Mar 2010

Weak Hydrogen Bonds Contribute to Amazing Strength of Silk

Since its development in China thousands of years ago, silk from silkworms, spiders and other insects has been used for high-end, luxury fabrics as well as for parachutes and medical sutures. Now, National Science Foundation-supported researchers are untangling some of its most closely guarded secrets, and explaining why silk is so super strong.

17 Mar 2010