National Institutes of Health's National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences has awarded $100,000 small business technology transfer program (STTR) Phase I grant to Transgenomic to develop a genetic test that can detect pancreatic ...
Tags: genetic test, ICE COLD-PCR, genetic information, Pancreatic Cancer Test
DOE announces fiscal 2013 SBIR/STTR funding opportunity The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has released its DE-FOA-0000760 funding opportunity announcment for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small ...
Tags: RF devices, Wide bandgap semiconductors, DOE, SBIR
IQE expects revenue growth in second-half 2012 following Q2 recovery According to an interim trading update for first-half 2012, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK expects to report first-half revenue of ...
Fujitsu is trying to sell a fab as it moves towards the fabless model. Although Japan's Nikkei newspaper says it is talking to TSMC about selling the fab, it is highly unlikely that TSMC has any interest in buying it. TSMC has repeatedly ...
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) is under the process of developing high-powered LED lighting for homes and offices by a new manufacturing system called ‘liquid forging’. Chua Beng Wah, lead researcher ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has completed its acquisition(announced on 5 June)of the entire in-house molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)epiwafer manufacturing unit of RF Micro Devices Inc of ...
European Patent Office (EPO) recognizes development of wavefront-corrected eye surgery by Josef Bille at annual ceremony. European Inventor Awards 2012 Josef Bille’s development of the ...
Tags: Laser Surgery Pioneer, EPO, European Inventor Awards 2012
Eco-Laserfact promotes micromachining 11 Jun 2012 Cooperation between research centers and small companies will enhance expertise in North-West Europe. European micromachining expertise The rapid development and wider adoption of ...
5 June 2012 IQE acquires RFMD's MBE unit and secures seven-year wafer supply agreement Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has signed what is described as a multi-faceted agreement to acquire the entire ...
Tags: IQE, RFMD MBE, GaAs, wireless semiconductor industry
In 2010, the global machine tool industry bottomed out and recovered rapidly, with the gross industrial output value rising 21.1% YoY, the sales revenue up by 12.6% YoY, and the import value growing 17.1% YoY. In particular, China achieved ...
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The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), which is a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), announced the development of a new plastic that reflects 0.09 to 0.2 percent of the ...
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India's pharmaceutical business solutions provider, Goose, has launched Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Manager, that enables pharma companies manage complex projects and improve delivery quality, yield. The API Manager is an ...
Tags: pharmaceutical, API, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, manage
Rosetta Genomics has won a European patent covering the use of miR-34a in the preparation of pharmaceuticals used to treat p53-negative cancers. The patent covers a core element of Rosetta's microRNA technology in the development of ...
Tags: European patent, p53-negative cancer, miR-34a, clinical technology
Masimo has acquired Spire Semiconductor, Seren Photonics has raised $2.8 million in funding, Quantum Wafer has purchased three Aixtron MOCVD systems, Spring City Electrical has been awarded a US patent Masimo acquires Spire Semiconductor ...
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As Africa’s plastics industry grows, Indian companies say they are picking up substantial business there, with exports rising for machinery firms, and India’s resin and processing companies making investments. The India factory ...
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