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Chip May Warn of Cardiac Risk
AUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2008 -- A nano-bio-chip assay could someday be used to analyze a patient's saliva on board an ambulance, at the dentist’s office or at a neighborhood drugstore, helping save lives and prevent damage from cardiac disease, said a team led by researchers at University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) at a recent American Association for Dental Research meeting. The device is the size of a credit card and can reportedly produce results in as little as 15 minutes. “Many heart attack victims, especially...
NASA Awards Epir Contract
SARASOTA, Fla., April 14, 2008 -- A contract awarded to Epir Technologies Inc. will help NASA optmize x-ray absorbers for silicon-based calorimeter spectrometers. The resulting x-ray sensors will have significantly higher spectral-resolution, "which will be used to provide...
Sensor Tracks Insulin Level
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 16, 2008 -- A sensor built from multiwalled carbon nanotubes can rapidly and continuously measure tiny amounts of insulin in a microfluidic device. Used in conjunction with a new procedure for treating Type 1 diabetes through liver cell transplant, the device...
Syngene Site Simplifies Stain Image Analysis
Apr 16, 2008 — Researchers who use Syngene image analyzers can determine the best imaging conditions for dye applications at the Syngene website. The free service provides information for more than 160 chemiluminescence, fluorescence and visible stains organized...
'FlowCytobot' Detects Blooms
FALMOUTH, Mass., April 15, 2008 -- The Imaging FlowCytobot, an underwater microscope developed as a research tool, recently proved its worth as an early warning device by detecting blooms of harmful marine algae in the Gulf of Mexico and giving authorities time to close areas before...
Boston Scientific, Surgi-Vision to Develop Cardiac Devices
Apr 15, 2008 — Boston Scientific Corp. and Surgi-Vision Inc. of Baltimore, Md., announced a deal to license and develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-safe technology for implantable cardiac devices. The companies will jointly develop a commercial application of...
CAF OKs Laser Eye Surgery for Crew
Apr 15, 2008 — Canada's Air Force (CAF) has approved a policy that permits serving and potential aircrew to undergo certain types of laser refractive surgery (LRS), based on a study by the Aeromedical Policy and Standards Committee. "Advances in technology,...
GOPS, Filigree Among UNC Contest Winners
Apr 15, 2008 — GOPS Group LLC, a Saluda, N.C., producer of AlgaMax bio diesel fuel, and Filigree Nanotechnology Inc., a Winston-Salem developer of a manufacturing process using silver nanowires to improve silver zinc batteries, were among winners of the Five...
Robert Alfano Awarded for Supercontinuum Work
Apr 15, 2008 — Robert R. Alfano, a professor of science and engineering at the City College of New York and director of its Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, has been named the recipient of the 2008 Optical Society of America (OSA) Charles Hard...
Steve Rothstein Hired at Plasma Etch
Apr 15, 2008 — Steve Rothstein has been hired as eastern regional US sales manager by Plasma Etch Inc. of Carson City, Nevada. Rothstein has a background in the high-vacuum deposition industry and more than 25 years of experience in thin-film coatings, plasma...
Ambios Technology Expands Facilities
Apr 14, 2008 — Ambios Technology Inc. announced that it has signed a multiyear agreement that doubles the size of its Santa Cruz, Calif., headquarters. The additional space will be used to substantially increase manufacturing, engineering and research facilities....
GSI to Reduce US Jobs
BILLERICA, Mass., April 14 -- GSI Group Inc. announced today is will cut its US work force by 10 percent during the first half of this year as a result of soft semiconductor markets and plant closings. GSI, based in Billerica, Mass., supplies precision technology and...
Laser Triggers Thunderclouds
SOCORRO, N.M., April 14, 2008 -- Scientists have used ultrashort laser pulses to trigger electrical activity in thunderclouds, a first step toward creating man-made lightning. In a modern-day take on Benjamin Franklin's experiment during a storm more than 200 years ago with a...
Technology Innovators Vie for 'European Inventor of the Year' Awards
Apr 14, 2008 — The inventor of the stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscope and the creators of a new ophthalmoscope laser scanning technology are among 12 finalists completing for Europe's top innovation prize, Inventor of the Year 2008. The prize...
Microdevice to Track Tumors
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 11, 2008 -- A wireless, needle-like injectable device has been designed to more effectively kill tumors by telling doctors the precise dose of radiation received and the exact position of tumors during treatment. Babak Ziaie, an associate professor in the...
StockerYale Transferring to Nasdaq Capital Market
Apr 11, 2008 — StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., announced that it intends to transfer the listing of its common stock from the Nasdaq Global Market to the Nasdaq Capital Market, which has a lower cost and lower listing requirements, by April 18. The company's...
UColorado Opens Lab to Detect Drugs in Drinking Water
Apr 11, 2008 — The University of Colorado's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering in Boulder announced the opening of the Center for Environmental Mass Spectrometry (CEMS), a laboratory focusing on the detection of pharmaceuticals,...
‘Stained Glass’ CNTs Made
EVANSTON, Ill., April 10, 2008 -- Metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been used to make thin films that are semitransparent, highly conductive, flexible and come in a range of colors, with an appearance similar to stained glass. The CNTs could lead to improved products such as...
Better Job Market Offset by Manufacturing Decline
Apr 10, 2008 — US high-tech jobs have increased for the third year in a row, said the American Electronics Association (AEA), and there is a strong labor market for scientists and engineers, the supply of which is increasing, reports the National Science Founation...
IPG Photonics Adds 3 to Sales Force
Apr 9, 2008 — Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., announced today that it has strengthened its capabilities in merchant diode sales, sales to the government, and low- and mid-power fiber laser sales with three new appointments: Jim Stathis as...
Petawatt Power Peak Reached
AUSTIN, Texas, April 9, 2008 -- The Texas Petawatt laser produced a petawatt of peak power on March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, said Todd Ditmire, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. The laser is brighter than sunlight on the surface of the...
Zygo Optical Systems Div.: A Tier 1 Electro-Optical Device Supplier
MIDDLEFIELD, Conn., April 9, 2008 -- Zygo Corp.'s reputation for state-of-the-art interferometry is well known throughout the world. For almost four decades, however, the company has also been manufacturing high-precision optical components and systems serving applications ranging from...
DoD to Fund Research Tools
WASHINGTON, April 7, 2008 -- Photonics instruments at the University of Maine, an ultrafast laser to study photochemical reactions at the University of Chicago, stereo particle image velocimetry for investigations of unsteady 3-D separation at the University of Arizona, and a...
II-VI to Sell Sensor Div.
SAXONBURG, Pa., April 7, 2008 -- II-VI Inc. announced it intends to sell its x-ray and gamma-ray radiation sensor division, eV Products Inc., a unit in its Compound Semiconductor Group. A sale price was not disclosed for the division, which manufactures solid-state room temperature...
Sensor Squid Sparks Student Sharing
Apr 7, 2008 — Call it "tangible interface design," "interactive tactile collaboration," "computer-human interaction" designed to enable "creativty interventions," what have you. By any name, Archie the Sensor Squid is a six-foot-long cotton and polyester-stuffed...
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