Surge in Biological Technology

Sonic Foundry CEO Predicts the Corporate Enterprise Will Be the Linchpin for Rich Media's Growth Surge at Streaming Media 2003

According to Buinevicius, the first wave of streaming media was predominantly targeted toward consumer applications in sports and entertainment; but by and large, the money hasn't followed. The focus on streaming media is now shifting from entertainment to being a communication tool that can improv...

Corporate clients will dominate surge in nanotech tool demand, study projects

Corporate research and development will dominate a surge in demand for nanotech tools in the coming years, according to a study released this week by a New York consulting firm that focuses on nanotechnology. The study, by Lux Research , also projected that sales of nanotech tools could double ...

Biofuels surge forward

Wisconsin's energy future may include more biobased fuels to reduce the state's reliance on imported oil and reinvigorate rural economies. A recent policy initiative, consortium and related bill from Madison explore ethanol use and production expansion and try to incorporate major industrial sector...

FDA Grants First Authorization of a Commercial 2009 H1N1 Flu Test for use During Pandemic Flu Emergency to Quest Diagnostics' Focus Diagnostics Business

.... "This capability could be critically important in aiding clinicians in determining which Influenza A virus is causing an infection should there be a surge in flu cases during the fall and winter flu season. We will continue to work closely with public health officials, who have done an outstanding job m...

New RISI Report Analyzes South American Tree Farm and Biomass Energy Investment Opportunities

... timberland investors in North America." He continued, "However, RISI projects that South America and especially Brazil, will be the focus of the next surge in timberland investment. Brazil already has more dedicated wood energy plantations than Europe, North America, and Africa combined, and the area of t...

Australia: Face Mask That Kills Swine Flu Readied for Australian Pandemic Fight

...able as standard masks, it is resistant to fungal contamination and extreme conditions, including humidity, heat or cold. It is flat-packed and can be surge manufactured. "We are working with Australian retailers and distributors to get the BioMask and our other anti- infective products out to people as so...

Nano-sandwich triggers novel electron behavior

...n England first isolated graphene, a single-layer lattice of carbon atoms. That material, too, had unique electronic properties, and it sparked a huge surge of interest among physicists and materials scientists, who have published hundreds of papers on it. The team termed the behavior of electrons in graph...

Energy Leaders Gather in Houston; Call for Balanced, Careful Approach to Energy Policy

...ot abandon one form of energy or energy policy for the sake of another. He said that if, for example, a quota was placed on U.S. imports, prices would surge out of control. Or, if environmental standards were lifted on drilling, resources would be quickly depleted, and the country would be in worse shape t...

Miami Beach Real Estate Attorney Announces Services to Assist Chinese and other International Real Estate Investors Purchase Discount Florida Homes

...tate broker in Miami Beach, Florida , Christian N. Folland, Esq, utilizes a specialized combination of legal and Realty knowledge to assist the recent surge in Chinese and other international buyers interested purchasing Miami, Florida real estate at discount prices though pre-foreclosure or foreclosure tr...

Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology Receives Gates Foundation Grant for Avian Influenza Vaccine Development

...imit their impact on vulnerable populations." CMB's platform provides a new alternative to traditional vaccine production, with improved speed, surge capacity, and cost efficiency. The technology has also earned support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue developin...

The MedZilla Report: October 2008 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

...o go to surgeons, laboratory technicians, and, surprisingly, medical writers and editors. For the first time in several months, there was a noticeable surge in those types of positions – four percent worth. Even though positions were available in October, it did not seem as though candidates appr...

CJPS Enterprises Provides New Strategies To Create Additional Revenues for Companies with Intellectual Property

... TROY, Mich., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- CJPS Enterprises, LLC ( http://www.CJPS-Enterprises.com ) announced that it has seen a surge in the demand of its services to leverage companies' intellectual property (IP) to create new revenues, as well as increasing the value of their intan...

New England Peptide Forms Scientific Advisory Board

.... Peptides' inherent low toxicity and high potency, coupled with improved drug delivery methods and enhanced manufacturing capabilities, are fueling a surge in research and clinical use. All segments of the peptide market - from therapeutics and vaccines to diagnostics and cosmetics - are thriving. Con...

Titrators Market to Reach $315 Million by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

...ed at US$60 million in 2008. Europe represents the largest market for titrators. Coulometric titrators market revenues in the region are forecast to surge to US$72 million by 2015. Leading players profiled in the report include Brinkmann Instruments Inc., COSA Instrument Corporation, GR Scientific, ...

New England Peptide Names Director of Chemical Development

.... Peptides' inherent low toxicity and high potency, coupled with improved drug delivery methods and enhanced manufacturing capabilities, are fueling a surge in research and clinical use. All segments of the peptide market - from therapeutics and vaccines to diagnostics and cosmetics - are thriving. # #...

Nomad Bioscience: New Plant Biotechnology Company Founded to Focus on Biomaterials and Biopharmaceuticals

.... NOMAD's Insulin will provide an economical alternative to commercially available Insulin to better serve developing nations and meet the anticipated surge in demand. The biologics segment of the portfolio offers the longer term higher upside margins associated with pharmaceuticals while controlling the d...

Investment and Growth in US Medical Technology Industry Continues Despite Challenging Public Markets

...logy Leader. "The industry is poised for growth in the years ahead due to aging populations, the wider prevalence of chronic diseases, and an expected surge in demand for companion diagnostics to accompany new generations of targeted therapies." Key industry findings described in the report include: --...

Hoana Medical and Hawai'i Union Health and Welfare Trust Funds Partner to Fix Healthcare

... live with those decisions with little other choice. Nearly 40 percent of all unexpected hospital deaths occur on the med-surg floor, resulting in a surge of interest in early recognition and patient safety. With healthcare costs at unprecedented levels and rising each year, the union health and welfare ...

InstaCare Corp. Continues Turnaround & Reports 291% Revenues Increase in 2Q 2008

...staCare, commented, "We are pleased to report another exceptional quarter for InstaCare as our businesses grew and remained profitable, on a continued surge in sales. We have successfully implemented our medical diagnostics and medical disposable products distribution plans and these businesses have genera...

New England Peptide Implements Quality Management System, Prepares for ISO 9001: 2008 Registration

...tides' inherent low toxicity and high potency, coupled with improved drug delivery methods and enhanced manufacturing capabilities, are fueling a surge in use. All segments of the peptide market - from therapeutics and vaccines to diagnostics and cosmetics - are thriving. ### ...

Pacific Biosciences Raises $100 Million to Fund Commercial Product Development

..."These funds from a combination of key institutional investors as well as Intel, a world class provider of semiconductor technology, will enable us to surge forward with an aggressive development program and stay on track to commercialize our technology in 2010." Pacific Bioscience's SMRT(TM) technology ...

In a Year of Unprecedented Growth for Biotechnology Innovation, Targeted Therapies Gain Most Significant Traction, According to New Deloitte Study

...ing a year of unprecedented progress and commercial impact. Targeted therapies with companion molecular diagnostics have experienced the most profound surge in realization, rising 50 percent in just three years. Developed to track the pace and progress of therapeutic-based technologies, the Deloitte repo...

E. coli Outbreak in New Jersey?

...blic health professionals a valuable head start in recognizing and managing disease spread and epidemic outbreaks, as well as possible bioterrorism, a surge in criminal assaults and even tainted street drugs. In the North Bergen emergency preparedness exercise, EpiCenter's built-in statistical tools were...

IDEXX Laboratories Announces First Quarter Results

...nal sales. We achieved double digit organic revenue growth, despite a comparison to an unusually strong first quarter in 2007, when our business saw a surge in revenue resulting from the pet food recall in North America. Overall, I was very pleased that the company was able to continue to perform well on b...

Significant Progress Made in Nation's Preparedness to Respond to Public Health Emergencies; But Gaps in Critical Areas Threaten Overall Readiness

...es the state lab director report having sufficient laboratory capabilities to test for biological threats? 4. Public Health Laboratories - Workforce surge Preparedness - If needed in an emergency, does the state public health laboratory have the capability to provide 24/7 coverage to analyze samples? 5...

Wisconsins Real-Time" Economy

...chips that can provide real-time information and trigger automatic responses. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has explained, The remarkable surge in the availability of more timely information in recent years has enabled business management to remove large swaths of inventory safety stocks and w...

The Impact of Biotech Globalization in the Midwest

....S. some 10 to 15 years ago (particularly between the U.K. and Europe). During this period, the Midwest was ignored as a biotech wasteland. The recent surge in biotech activities (including the commercialization of university research) in the Midwest has attracted the attention of numerous groups. As I...

Using Demographic Predictions, UW Prof Expounds Upon Trends in Tech

...That means a spike in the number of births, such as the Baby Boom, will travel intact, like a wave, through a countrys age distribution. The resulting surge in the older segment of the population will exert a growing influence not only on public policy, but on technology. Any equipment that is involved ...

Putting spam back in the can wont be all that easy

...d the e-mail address. When CAN-SPAM took effect, it pre-empted the anti-spam laws of Wisconsin and 36 other states. So, if youve noticed a dramatic surge in your spam since the start of the year, its probably because spammers are taking advantage of jurisdictional confusion. Fighting spam and virus a...

Part 2 Project performance Get on the path to continuous improvement

... was featured with General Douglas MacArthur for their work in rebuilding Japan after 1945. Dr. Deming was credited as a catalyst for Japan's economic surge in consumer goods. What he did was profound: He applied the concepts of statistical process control to their industries using a four-step process for ...

Laying the foundation for RFID

...e with suppliers to track product shipments. The industry is starting to look like the Internet circa 99, said Jack Kahler of Avocus Group of the surge of interest in RFID. I think the Internet was training us for this there are a lot of investors floating around, pouring a lot of money into it. P...

Don't count out notebooks

...to devise service plans that complement notebook telephony capabilities. This trend will impact other technology providers, as well. We could see a surge in Bluetooth headsets, for example. Battery technologies will need to keep up with the power demand of wirelessly connected, full-function notebook co...

Presidential candidates stretch necks and facts

...s added, the loss is about 585,000. (Of course, that raises another question about why so many public-sector jobs are being created.) Unless there's a surge over the next few months, Bush could become the first president in 72 years to lose jobs in a first term. On the other hand, Bush is correct when he s...

Wisconsin Angel Network is part of states focus on entrepreneurship

...de a support system that could lead to the creation of more. Wisconsin is adding jobs at a rate that leads the Midwest. One of the reasons for that surge of job creation is the concerted effort to encourage and educate entrepreneurs, and to create the conditions by which they can be successful. The seed...

Trade deficit hits home in Wisconsin

...e a symbol of the rising U.S. trade deficit, which increased to $617.7 billion in 2004 from $496.5 billion in 2003. Many economists are alarmed by the surge in the trade deficit, which they see as proof the United States has become an import-dependent nation rather than an industrial giant that supplies th...

High interest forces delay in food safety symposium

... A surge in interest in a conference on protecting the U.S. food supply from terrorism and natural disasters has led its organizers to postpone the event until...

New company eyes major ethanol production facility

...e his comments in an opinion column entitled "Let's rely more on the Midwest, less on the Mideast." See recent WTN story on biofuels: Biofuels surge forward ...

Staggering stats on blog adoption

...d with 50% studying the possibilities. Only 11%, or 1 in 9, of the total respondents are not blogging today and have no plans to do so. The recent surge in corporate blogging, significant plans for expanding current blogging activities, and a large community of potential customers suggests that corpora...

Heres why Wisconsins tech economy indicators are up

...Doyle have combined to create tax credits for technology start-ups and invested in other grant and loan funds. The workforce is being retrained. A surge of returning students, many of whom are adults squeezed out of manufacturing jobs, is evident in public and private institutions. The rise of private,...

State campaign seeks to reverse negative perception of manufacturing work

... Impact in Wisconsin Perceptions seem to be changing in Wisconsin, according to Duckett and Holmes. At NWTC, Duckett reports an overall enrollment surge of 336 students from 2004 to 2005 - a hike she credits to the campaign. At Moraine Park, enrollment in manufacturing programs grew by 15 percent since...