LOGIC in Biological Technology

BioHorizons Announces the Purchase of Implant Logic Systems

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., and CEDARHURST, N.Y., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- BioHorizons, Inc. ("BioHorizons") announced today the completion of its purchase of Implant Logic Systems, Ltd. ("ILS"), first announced on January 30, 2008. Implant Logic Systems will operate as a subsidiary of BioHorizons. Stev...

BioHorizons Announces Agreement to Purchase Implant Logic Systems

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., and CEDARHURST, N.Y., Jan 30 /PRNewswire/ -- BioHorizons Implant Systems, Inc. ("BioHorizons") announced today its parent company has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Implant Logic Systems, Ltd. ("ILS"). ILS is a leading innovator and provider of technology sol...

Silicon Logic Enables High-Speed Communication

Jeff West has done both, and in the process has poised Silicon Logic Engineering (SLE), the company he co-founded in 1996 with fellow Cray Research veterans Mike Berry and Bob Solberg, to sit on the crest of the high-speed communications wave already taking shape on the high seas of communicati...

Silicon Logic Teams Up to Save Money

Big impact for video game makers Eau Claire, WI-- Silicon Logic Engineering has joined forces with Mentor Graphics of Wilsonville, Ore., to offer improved custom computer chip verification to customers all over the IT spectrum. The business collaboration is meant to speed up design veri...

Silicon Logic Engineering Ramps Up Custom Chips

Interview with SLE President Jeff West Eau Claire, Wis.In a business world where even very specialized services and products quickly become commodities, Silicon Logic Engineering is staying one step ahead of the rat race. The Eau Claire-based company specializes in design and verification o...

Canadian firm acquires Silicon Logic

Eau Claire, Wis. - Tundra Semiconductor Corp. , the Ottawa, Ontario-based developer of system interconnect for the communications and computing markets, has announced the acquisition of Silicon Logic Engineering (SLE) , a high-end chip design company based in Eau Claire, for $14 million. SLE...

National Institutes of Health Chooses Web of Science(R) to Power electronic Scientific Portfolio Assistant (eSPA)

...h organizations." As the prime contractor on this award, Discovery logic will link Web of Science data to NIH grants, clinical trials, publication... about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov . About Discovery logic Discovery Logic(R) is a leading provider of systems, data and analytics ...

BioStorage Technologies, Inc., Appoints Jeff Goddard to Global Head of Sales

...(CRO); Quadraspec, a proteomics-based medical diagnostics company; and Gene logic Inc., where he was responsible for leading a sales organization for both genomics and preclinical CRO services. Gene logic acquired TherImmune Research Corporation in 2003, for which he served as vi...

China Biologic Products Completes Acquisition of 90% Controlling Interest in Chongqing Dalin Biologic Technologies Co., Ltd.

...tallment represents the Company's payment of an aggregate 90% of the total purchase price, and according to the equity transfer agreement, as amended, logic Holding (Hong Kong) Limited ("Logic Holding"), the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, is now entitled to all the rights and privileges of a 90% shareh...

X marks the spot: Ions coldly go through NIST trap junction

...th between different locations for data storage or logic operations, without heating them up so much that t... allow ions to be grouped together efficiently for logic operations. As voltages are applied to different e...s for transport between zonestimes compatible with logic operations using ions. The trap design makes large...

China Biologic Products Completes Acquisition of 35% Interest in Xi'an Huitian Blood Products Co., Ltd.

...al Products, did not contribute any amounts toward the Equity Transfer, and agreed, in a side agreement with China Biologic's wholly-owned subsidiary, logic Express, to allocate to Logic Express all of the economic benefits (i.e., revenues and net income) and burdens (i.e., expenses, losses and liabilities...

Inventigo and GridGain Systems Team Up on Delivering Cloud-Enabled High Performance XML Processing

... streaming parsers based on visual annotation of XML schema with processing logic in Java and GridGain's ability to parallelize processing logic on the cloud our customers can employ one of a kind capability of processin...

UK's Institute of Cancer Research and Silicon Graphics Establish Long-Term Alliance to Design and Outfit World-Class Network Biology Lab

...ata sets that must be processed rapidly, visualized interactively, and accessed on the fly," said Dr. Rune Linding, head of the Cellular and Molecular logic Team at The Institute of Cancer Research. The Institute intends to make use of the full range of Silicon Graphics solutions and services. "T...

Domain walls that conduct electricity

... BERKELEY, CA The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens...

ICON Delivers New Electronic Solution to Expedite Clinical Trial Adjudication

...t locations can simultaneously access and review this data in a secure online environment and complete the assessment in an electronic CRF. The CRF is logic driven and can also allow for queries for extra data as well as programmatic identification of cases that require consensus resolution. Dr. Did...

Progress toward new storage media

... were able to transfer the pattern of a recorded CD onto a film of this iron compound. This is the first proof that it is possible to produce readable logic patterns with a spin-transfer compound. To make the stripe structures technologically useful, the switching process must be adapted to room-temperat...

China Biologic Products Enters Into Agreement to Acquire 35% Interest in Xi'an Huitian Blood Products Co., Ltd. and Introduces Preliminary Guidance for 2009

...aibang, contractually agreed with China Biologic's wholly-owned subsidiary, logic Express, to allocate to logic Express all of the economic benefits (i.e., revenues and net income) and bu...

Sun Pharmaceutical Sends Second Letter to Taro Pharmaceutical Regarding Taro's Irish Subsidiary

...ess our substantive objections to the proposed sale of Taro's Irish subsidiary ("Taro Ireland"). Instead, you have tried to deflect attention from the logic of our reasoning by accusing us of breaching our duty of good faith to Taro and its other shareholders. We find this laughable. We made public our gra...

Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could enable development of faster computers

...ferromagnet/semiconductor (FM/SC) structures, which are key building blocks for semiconductor spintronic devices (microelectronic devices that perform logic operations using the spin of electrons). The FM/SC structure is sandwich-like in appearance, with the ferromagnet and semiconductor serving as microsc...

Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST

...with relatively complex shapes. NIL is being eyed in particular for building the complexly patterned insulating layers sandwiched between layers of logic devices in future generations of integrated circuits. State-of-the-art semiconductors contain over a billion transistors, packed together into a footp...

Mercy Medical Center Completes Beta Studies for Integrated Hematology and Automated Diabetes Testing Solution

...automated diabetes testing in a random access setting. "This integrated testing solution, now fully on-line at Mercy, also utilizes automated decision logic rules software, Sysmex MOLIS WAM(TM), to maximize efficiencies in the area of data and sample management and labor utilization," said Barbara Carter, ...

Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'

...nd solar cells. The diverse and exemplary properties of carbon nanotubes have inspired a vast range of proposed applications including transistors, logic gates, interconnects, conductive films, field emission sources, infrared emitters, biosensors, scanning probes, nanomechanical devices, mechanical rei...

Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology

... computer contains two different types of components: magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor components, which perform logic operations. A University of Missouri researcher, as part of a multi-university research team, is working to combine these two functions in a single hy...

Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes

...shapes or to accommodate mechanical deformations during use. The researchers constructed integrated circuits consisting of transistors, oscillators, logic gates and amplifiers. The circuits exhibited extreme levels of bendability and stretchability, with electronic properties comparable to those of simil...

UD's Appelbaum wins NSF Career Award for research on silicon spintronics

... chips, transistors and integrated circuits required for a potential new industry. Ultimately, the research may lead to the development of a whole new logic architecture for electronics, Appelbaum says. While almost all work in the field has focused on compound semiconductors, there are clear benefits f...

ISS Recommends Pharmion Shareholders Vote for Merger With Celgene

...ndependent proxy advisory firms -- Glass Lewis & Co., PROXY Governance and Egan-Jones Proxy Services -- have all recognized the strategic and economic logic of our merger with Celgene," said Patrick Mahaffy, Pharmion's president and chief executive officer. "ISS' conclusions confirm our conviction that the...

Team develops energy-efficient microchip

...s simple as it might sound, because existing microchips have been optimized for many years to operate at the higher standard-voltage level. Memory and logic circuits have to be redesigned to operate at very low power supply voltages, Chandrakasan says. One key to the new design, he says, was to build a...

Dr. Dinesh Verma to be honored with President's Leadership Award at Edwin A. Stevens Society Gala

...tability engineering. In addition to his publications, Verma has received one patent and has two pending in the areas of life-cycle costing and fuzzy logic techniques for evaluating design concepts. Verma has authored more than 85 technical papers, book reviews, technical monographs, and co-authored two ...

UD researchers race ahead with latest spintronics achievement

...eans that silicon can now be used to perform many spin manipulations both within the space of thousands of devices and within the time of thousands of logic operations, paving the way for silicon-based spintronics circuits, Appelbaum said. In Appelbaum's lab at UD, the team fabricated a device that inje...

New method of selecting DNA for resequencing accelerates discovery of subtle DNA variations

...s. For the published study, a third type of microarray--a resequencing array--was used to determine the DNA sequence in the patient samples. "The logic behind the resequencing chip is that you design the chip to have the identity of the base at every single site in a reference sequence," says Dr. Zwic...

Quantum device traps, detects and manipulates the spin of single electrons

... says should allow for the development of a viable technology, based on this approach. In addition, the system they developed requires relatively few logic gates, the components in semiconductors that control electron flow, making scalability to complex integrated circuits very feasible. The UB research...

Genstruct CEO, Dr. Keith Elliston, Invited to Speak at Oncology Clinical Trial Summit

...l genomics and bioinformatics efforts, and was the section head of Genomics and the worldwide head of Bioinformatics. In 1997 Dr. Elliston joined Gene logic as Chief Scientific Officer and pioneered the development/application of molecular profiling to drug discovery. He was responsible for the development...

The next generation: nanomagnets could replace semiconductors

...d data storage in a single nanomagnetic computing system. Working from logic gates, which are at the heart of a computers ability to add, subtract, mult...ization of adjacent magnets is possible and can be used to perform specific logic and computing operations, reversing the repulsive and attractive poles of m...

Merge eFilm to buy Ohio firm in $14M Deal

...s and imaging centers. "The acquisition of RIS logic is an important strategic milestone in our evoluti...se has been very positive. The purchase of RSI logic will allow Merge eFilm to have a stronger presence...er customers representing over 200 sites. "The RIS logic CS solution will continue to be central to the bus...

Artificial intelligence and healthcare technology

...search using Keeleys Knowledge Enhanced Electronic logic (KEEL) tool, initial diagnostic tests have been su... differ from one machine to the next, and the KEEL logic engine had to be reprogrammed accordingly. Chan...es between KEEL and other AI tools including fuzzy logic and neural networks make his technology a logical ...

WorkWise Helps Manufacturers Squeeze Bottom Line

... bit more than some ERP systems can provide. Our equipment is very big, very expensive and very complex, Schmitt said. We needed something to throw logic at this whole thingidentifying in a time-critical manner the things we need to do, when they need to get done by, what we need to buy and when, what w...

Eau Claire Pulls Together, Forms Million-Dollar Technology Loan Program

...nesses was illustrated in a speech delivered at an annual Eau Claire Economic Development meeting in February 2003 by Jeff West, president of Silicon logic Engineering . There are two basic types of business financing for small or entrepreneurial companies, West said. There are small loans for small b...

WTN Exclusive Interview: Cory L. Nettles, Secretary of Commerce

...o. WTN: Recently, the Governor traveled to Eau Claire to award Silicon logic Engineering (SLE) with a $54,000 Technology Zone tax credit and a $400,000 ...technology development and global competitiveness.) Nettles: Silicon logic Engineering was the first company we chose to benefit under the Technology ...

Who is this Adam Bock Person, Anyway?

... really did want engineers, so I interviewed blindly, submitting my resume to every such firm that interviewed on campus. The interviews were strange logic puzzles, storytelling, quantitative analysis, and sometimes drinking and dining in fancy restaurants and bars. Offers came in, and I ended up at Moni...

Leaders Rally from The Valley

...es in the technology industry including Cray, Silicon Graphics, 3M, Silicon logic Engineering, Phillips Plastics and Hutchinson Technologies industry all hav...ire Pulls Together, Forms Million-Dollar Technology Loan Program Silicon logic Engineering Ramps Up Custom Chips Chippewa Valley Embraces Nanotechnolog...