Medtronic has announced that it has acquired combination product specialist Tyrx (Monmouth Junction, NJ) for $160 million. Tyrx, a spin-off from Rutgers University, was launched in 1998 to develop products to combat surgical-site infections ...
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
Solarion AG of Leipzig, Germany has begun the series production of its flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, the first of which is a flexible solar foil directly laminated onto 0.7mm rolled ...
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Eulitha AG (a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland that develops nano-lithographic technologies for optoelectronics, photonics, biotechnology and data storage applications) has announced the availability of the ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has celebrated its 30th anniversary, after being co-founded by physicist Dr Holger Jürgensen (now honorary chairman of Aixtron’s Supervisory Board), Dr Meino Heyen and ...
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ABS Consulting recently completed design review services for an approval in principle of the design of Hyundai Heavy Industries' (HHI) Modular Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Storage Tanks. ABS Consulting reviewed the system design for HHI's ...
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CDRD Ventures, the commercialization vehicle of The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), has announced the launch of a new spin-off company, Sitka Biopharma is a biotechnology company developing a new bladder cancer treatment. ...
TORONTO, Nov. 22, 2013 /CNW/ - Vena Resources Inc. (the "Company" or "Vena") (TSX: VEM) (Peru: VEM) (Germany: V1RA) (USA: VNARF) announces that it has entered into a share purchase agreement with Azincourt Uranium Inc. (TSXV: AAZ) ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), nanotechnology and semiconductor applications, has introduced the EVG PHABLE exposure system, which is ...
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Premier Foods is remaining tight-lipped about reports that the Mexican bakery Grupo Bimbo may acquire its troubled bread division, as the firm’s short-term prospects divided City opinion. Premier Foods' plan to seek a financial ...
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National Oilwell Varco, Inc. announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Merrill A. Pete Miller, Jr. has informed the Board of Directors that he intends to step down from those positions contemporaneous with the completion of the ...
Petrobras, in compliance with the provision set forth in CVM Instruction 358/02, announces that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, has approved the following merger proposals, which will be voted by shareholders in a Special ...
Mondelez International, Inc. today reported third quarter 2013 results. "We delivered solid results in a difficult environment. Both revenue and operating margin improved sequentially, fueled by volume/mix gains of more than 5 percent, ...
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Sony has slashed its profit forecast for 2013 by 40 per cent, meaning the technology giant now expects to make only £190m. The company had originally estimated it would make a profit of 50bn yen (£372.4m), but after its Q3 ...
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