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Regional Biotech Association Warns Legislation Would Make VT Least Friendly State in Nation for Biotechnology and Life Sciences

-Testimony To Legislature Calls For Rejection Of Legislation That Will Cost Vermonters Current And Future Jobs- MONTPELIER, Vt., April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- In testimony to the Legislature and a full page ad in today's Rutland Herald, the region's largest biotechnology association warned that a ...

Self-assembled nanowires could make chips smaller and faster

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels made of gallium arsenide. In a paper to appear in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Elect...

University of Alberta and NINT researchers make solar energy breakthrough

EdmontonThe University of Alberta and the National Research Council's National Institute (NINT) for Nanotechnology have engineered an approach that is leading to improved performance of plastic solar cells (hybrid organic solar cells). The development of inexpensive, mass-produced plastic solar pa...

Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P. To Make Tender Offer For Any And All Outstanding Shares Of Avigen At $1.00 Per Share

Tender Offer provides stockholders with a near-term cash alternative if BVF nominees are elected BVF reaffirms support for downside-protected merger with MediciNova NEW YORK, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P. ("BVF") announced today that it intends to make a cash te...

Noninvasive Medical Technologies Helps Make Young Tennessee Woman's Wishes Come True

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- "Thanks to NMT, all of my wishes are coming true," says Kristin Shumpert, who is traveling from Oak Ridge, Tennessee this week to experience the lights, sounds and excitement of Las Vegas ... and to meet the people who "saved my life." Until recently, the prospe...

New research expected to improve laser devices and make photovoltaics more efficient

University of Chicago scientists have induced electrons in the nanocrystals of semiconductors to cool more slowly by forcing them into a smaller volume. This has the potential to improve satellite communications and the generation of solar power. "Slowing down the cooling of these electronsin th...

Top Refractive Eye Surgeons Listed in Trusted LASIK Surgeons Directory Make Solid Showing at Annual Alcon Symposium

Doctors Stephen Brint, Daniel Durrie, Shachar Tauber, Stephen Slade, R. Wayne Bowman, William Whitson, James Salz, Ronald Krueger, Jason Stahl, Karl Stoneciper, Brock Magruder, and Richard Braunstein, attended the recent Alcon Symposium in Dallas, Texas, which featured the Allegretto Wave excimer...

Digesting the termite digestome -- a way to make biofuels?

If the biofuel known as bioethanol is to make a major contribution to our fuel supplies, then we may well require the assistance of some tiny insect helpers, says Michael Scharf, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. In a review to be published in Bio...

Spherics, Inc. Successful Bidder May Make MHRA Submission

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph F. Finn, Jr., C.P.A. ("Finn"), Assignee of the assets of Spherics, Inc. ("Spherics") for the benefit of creditors, announced today that all pharmaceutical intellectual property will be sold at a sealed bid auction on October 10, 2008. On...

Spherics, Inc. Successful Bidder May Make NDA Submission

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph F. Finn, Jr., C.P.A. ("Finn"), Assignee of the assets of Spherics, Inc. ("Spherics") for the benefit of creditors, announced today that all pharmaceutical intellectual property will be sold at a sealed bid auction on October 10, 2008. On...

Telescope Embedded in Spectacle Lens Promises to Make Driving Easier for Visually Impaired

BOSTON, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Glasses embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision. Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists describe the advantages of these innovative glasses over ea...

Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips

Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which can damage today's silicon-based chips when transistors are packed together t...

NIST micro sensor and micro fridge make cool pair

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined two tiny but powerful NIST inventions on a single microchip, a cryogenic sensor and a microrefrigerator. The combination offers the possibility of cheaper, simpler and faster precision analysis of materials such...

Engineers make first 'active matrix' display using nanowires

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Engineers have created the first "active matrix" display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" displays in car windshields. The transistors are made of "nanow...

GreenField Ethanol and Enerkem Announce Plans to Make Cellulosic Ethanol a Commercial Reality

TORONTO and MONTREAL, March 11 /PRNewswire/ - GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest ethanol producer, and Enerkem, a leading gasification and catalysis technology company, have signed a Binding Term Sheet outlining their plan to produce cellulosic ethanol on a commercial scale. "We are excite...

Using supercomputers to make safer nuclear reactors

Troy, N.Y. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the worlds most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear power reactors. The three-year project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, wil...

Using nanotech to make Robocops

Bulletproof jackets do not turn security guards, police officers and armed forces into Robocops, repelling the force of bullets in their stride. New research in carbon nanotechnology however could give those in the line of fire materials which can bounce bullets without a trace of damage. A ...

Yale scientists make 2 giant steps in advancement of quantum computing

New Haven, Conn. Two major steps toward putting quantum computers into real practice sending a photon signal on demand from a qubit onto wires and transmitting the signal to a second, distant qubit have been brought about by a team of scientists at Yale. The accomplishments are reported in sequ...

Nanotech could make solar energy as easy and cheap as growing grass

WASHINGTON, DCScientists are working to produce cheap, sustainable solar energy by imitating nature. Nanotechnology researchers like California Institute of Technology professor Nate Lewis are exploring nanoscale materials that mimic the architecture of grass and photosynthesis to capture and stor...

Molecules line up to make the tiniest of wires

As technology gets smaller and smaller, the computer industry is facing the complex challenge of finding ways to manufacture the minuscule components necessary. Computer chips are constantly getting smaller and smaller. Theres an unrelenting decrease in size. And the question arises, how do you...

Distance Education Conference Selects Sonic Foundry to Make Keynotes, Panel Presentations Available On-Demand

MADISON, WI Aug. 11 Sonic Foundry a rich media solutions company, today announced the 19th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning will use its Mediasite Live rich media Web presentation system to capture the keynote addresses and panel presentations, and make them available on-demand ...

Spend Money to Make Money and Dump Obsolete Tech Strategies

Layoffs in manufacturing are still going on in the Midwest at places like the Maytag plant in Galesburg, Ill., which was featured on an NBC news story on Monday. There are many experts giving opinions about why these jobs are disappearing. The consensus is that many jobs are going overseas for ...

EducatedInvestor.com Launches to Help Investors Make Informed Decisions

Madison, Wis. The stock market and mutual fund scandals that have caused investors to lose vast sums of personal wealth have left these individuals confused or nervous about getting back into the market. A Madison-based company, Precision Information (PI) has launched a new free web site Educat...

Hal Leonard and MakeMusic Make SmartMusic

MILWAUKEE-- Hal Leonard Corporation , (HLC) headquartered in Milwaukee, the world's largest print music publisher, and MakeMusic! Inc. , the leading music education technology company, announced today that will be bundling SmartMusic with HLCs popular books for beginning music students: Essential...

Tapeworm's Chemical Trick Could Make Drugs More Effective

MADISON, WI - To survive and thrive in a decidedly hostile environment, the lowly tapeworm uses a chemical trick to evade the propulsive nature of its intestinal home. Capitalizing on that tapeworm chemistry, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe they may have found a way to ...

Streaming video could make courtrooms into Internet conference calls

MADISON, Wis. Sonic Foundry, a provider of rich-media systems and software, is deploying its Mediasite technology to record courtroom proceedings, the company has announced. Sonic Foundry and media services provider BxVideo are teaming up to power Courtroom Connect's new Virtual Law Viewer ...

More than ideas needed to make profits, experts say

Whitewater, Wis. Even the most innovative thinker has a lot of hard work to do before successfully bringing a new product to market, attendees learned at the Wisconsin Innovation Service Center s Ideas to Profits conference this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Industry l...

Wisconsin firms make acquisitions for Check 21 readiness

In preparation for the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, commonly called Check 21, two Wisconsin firms have acquired companies that specialize in electronic check imaging. Check 21, which will come into effect on October 28, is designed to improve the efficiency of the payments system b...

How to make pay-per-click ad campaigns pay off

According to a recent study, only 25 percent of online marketers track their pay-per-click campaigns. The study by Jupiter Research, presented at the Jupitermedias 2004 Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago, said about three quarters of pay-per-click (PPC) marketers who create pay-per...

Games that make leaders: top researchers on the rise of play in business and education

Madison, Wis. If the last video game you played was Pac-Man, you might have missed the advances that turned games into immersive training tools for skilled professionals and leaders. Three University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, among the top researchers in learning through game-playing, ...

How name-dropping can make interviews fail

No matter that Chicago is continually duking it out with Los Angeles for second place in the roster of largest U.S. cities. As a practical matter, Chicago's business community is finite. In Milwaukee and throughout the Midwest, the small-world phenomenon holds even more true. It therefore foll...

State IT leaders make Government Technology's top-25 list

Wisconsin has landed two IT movers and shakers to Government Technology magazine's Top 25 list of Doers, Dreamers and Drivers. State CIO Matt Miszewski and state Senator Ted Kanavas , a Republican from Brookfield, recently were named to the list for their work in trying to strengthen and stre...

UW students compete to make hydrogen cars, other renewable projects

Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students have accepted a challenge: the Future Energy Challenge . A team of 30 engineering students and three professors are developing vehicles and engines that operate on clean and renewable energy, taking their inventions to competiti...

Be proactive with networking to make it work for you

Like anything in life, you need to be proactive with networking for it to successfully work for you. It takes time and effort before you begin to reap the rewards of your activities. It is true that other people will put in some effort to network with you. However, you also need to actively enga...

IT guru Melissa Chapman: how to make health IT work for the bottom line

Melissa Chapman is a featured speaker at the Digital Healthcare Conference 2005 in Madison this June 8-9. Former aerospace engineer Melissa Chapman knows a thing or two about how to make things fly, especially when it comes to health information technology (HIT). After serving as CIO at two ...

Reducing brightness to make a better paper

Madison, Wis. -- Researchers at the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) have joined with other federal agencies and the pulp and paper industry in an effort to reduce the economic costs and environmental impacts of the paper commonly used in business and government offices whil...

RFID starting to make real impact on business

With today's issue, Wisconsin Technology Network launches a special section devoted to radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. While the technology is not new, it is only now beginning to make a real impact on business. It is from that perspective that we present this series of articles o...

Modernizing the tax code can make Wisconsin tech businesses more competitive

Madison, Wis. More than 30 years ago, then-Gov. Pat Lucey and the Wisconsin Legislature agreed to exempt manufacturing equipment and machinery from property taxes. It was a bipartisan decision that has given Wisconsin industry an enduring edge, even when hard times and foreign competition thre...

Biodiesel plant being built in DeForest to make alternative fuel

Anamax Corporation broke ground Monday on a new biodiesel plant in DeForest, the largest of its kind in the state at 12,300 square feet and an expected output of 20 million gallons of biodiesel annually. Biodiesel is a biodegradable, non-toxic fuel made from vegetable oil or animal byproducts th...