Altatech Semiconductor S.A. of Montbonnot, near Grenoble, France (a subsidiary of Soitec since January 2012) has received an order from the University of Washington in Seattle for an AltaCVD chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, whose ...
Tags: CVD System, Process Materials
Last July, Beerenberg did something radical. It changed its labels. And you're thinking, "Radical?" Well, Beerenberg jams, condiments and sauces have looked the same for 40 years. In the six months that followed, Beerenberg sales ...
Tags: Beerenberg, labels, Packaging&Printing
The Tor Foundation which has made it possible for privacy-bent Tor users to anonymously browse the web is now turning to enabling people to autonomously do instant messaging with a Tor-enabled service, dubbed Tor Instant Messaging Bundle ...
Patients with a common form of lung cancer — lung squamous cell carcinoma — have very few treatment options. That situation may soon change. A team of cancer biologists at Mayo Clinic in Florida is reporting in the Feb. 10 ...
Tags: Oncogene, lung cancer, PKCiota, SOX2
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Pfizer Inc. in New York said the trial of its pneumonia immunization in adults age 65 and older against bacterial pneumonia achieved its goals. The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Immunization Trial in Adults, the ...
As a range of climate change mitigation scenarios are discussed, University of Washington researchers have found that the injection of sulfate particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and curb the effects of global warming could ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Circuit of The Americas™ (COTA), is a world-class performance, education and business center and home to the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix and 2014 ESPN Summer X Games. COTA now features Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI) outdoor ...
New Sunbeam CEO Karen Hope is still settling in as the head of the Botany-based small appliance brand and the sheer magnitude of the job in front of her is only now revealing itself. Having joined the famous Australian small brand ...
Tags: Sumbeam, Karen Hope, Apparel Group, GUD
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new genetic platform that allows efficient production of naturally occurring molecules, and have used it to produce a novel antibiotic compound. Their study, published ...
Research teams at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and at the University of Limerick, Ireland, have discovered a novel solid state reaction which lets kesterite grains grow within a few seconds and at relatively low temperatures. For this ...
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What is ETMR/ETANTR and who does it affect? Embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) are rare, deadly brain tumours that affect mainly children below the age of 4 years. There are 300 cases reported but probably there are many ...
Affymetrix, a manufacturer of DNA microarrays, has obtained marketing authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Affymetrix CytoScan Dx assay that can detect chromosomal variations which may be responsible for a ...
Tags: FDA Approval, Cytoscan DX Assay
A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. The findings ...
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Some cells fail by chance, and not due to a genetic defect, to properly initiate the molecular processes for the breakdown of sugar. These cells are unable to grow and subsequently die. This discovery was done by a multidisciplinary team ...
A new class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides-ADEPs-may provide a new way to attack bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics. Researchers at Brown and MIT have discovered a way to increase the potency of ADEPs by up to ...