NIH Review Changes Outlined
During a lunchtime talk at the Human Brain Mapping meeting last month, James Bjork, a program officer with the National Institute of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), outlined re...
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Toptica Buys Till Photonics
A German consortium led by Toptica Photonics AG of Munich has acquired bioimaging specialist Till Photonics GmbH from Agilent Technologies. The transaction concluded June 30; financial terms were not ...
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Laser Show Bolsters Industry
Attendees gave Laser World of Photonics 2009, the leading trade show for optical technologies, the best ratings in the event's history, event organizers Messe München reported. Laser World of Photonic...
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Light Made Audible
Using a process that makes light audible, bioengineers in Germany developed a technique that allows 3-D optical and fluorescence imaging of tissue to a depth of several centimeters. Since the creation...
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Nanosensors Spy Drug Uptake
The recent discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles may ultimately help track the uptake of drugs by the body’s cells, according to researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the ...
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QuasarBrite SMT
Lumex
Lumex has launched the QuasarBrite narrow-beam surface-mount-technology (SMT) LEDs that provide users with a tight beam of high-intensity red, green or blue light. They offer a light beam of +/-6° to ...
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Firefly MV USB 2.0
Point Grey Research
Point Grey Research Inc. has expanded its Firefly MV line of FireWire and USB digital cameras with the introduction of a 1.3-megapixel USB 2.0 model. The FMVU-13S2C is designed around the color versio...
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T8/bi-pin
LEDtronics
Energy-efficient T8/bi-pin LED lighting tubes are the latest fluorescent-replacement LED lighting products announced by LEDtronics Inc. in its “green” technology lineup. The LED48T8-288-001W series bi...
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Heraeus BK 800
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has introduced the Heraeus BK 800 refrigerated incubator for storage of valuable substances at, or below, ambient temperatures. With a compact footprint measuring 560 × 1...
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MALDI Molecular Imager
Bruker Daltonics
Bruker Daltonics GmbH and Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH have announced the integration of Zeiss’ Mirax virtual slide scanner into Bruker’s MALDI molecular imager, with the goal of advancing molecular h...
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Bruker Gets 1st EPR Spectrometer Order
Bruker BioSpin of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced its first order for an Elexsys™ E780 system, the first commercial mm-wave 263-GHz EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) spectrometer and its EPR d...
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Spectranetics Taps New Senior VP
Spectranetics Corp., a laser systems manufacturer located in Colorado Springs, Colo., announced the appointment of Jason Hein to the position of senior vice president, sales, marketing and product dev...
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First AFM Bioworkshop in Taiwan
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Asylum Research, in conjunction with the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), will host the first Taiwan AFM Bioworkshop to be held July 30-31, 2009 at NHRI, Zhunan ...
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Imalux Names New President, CEO
Imalux Corp., a medical device company based in Cleveland, Ohio, announced the appointment of Michael Burke as its president and chief executive officer. He will also become a member of the company’s ...
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GE Opens $165M Facility in NY
In New York state over the weekend, senior leaders from GE Healthcare and GE Global Research joined state and local leaders and officials from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for the grand open...
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