Cuts at General Motors Bring Benefit Trends to the Forefront
While GM is cutting back, the 2008 Compensation Data results show benefits have seen little change nationally in the last five years. Kansas City, Kansas (PRWEB) October 29, 2008 -- General Motors has made headlines with plans to cut benefits. Tuition reimbursement and ...New High Performance Brushless dc Motors From NMB
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Over the last several months, the labs of Yale Goldman, MD, PhD, Director of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,// and Erika Holzbaur, PhD, Professor of Physiology, have published a group of papers that, taken together, show proteins that function...Bacteria Harnessed as Micro-Robot Motors
Normally we want to avoid having bacteria in our eyes, urethras, and spinal columns, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University would like to change that.// They have figured out how to glue S. marcescens to micro-robots for the delivery of drugs to hard to reach areas of the body. One of th...New Custom Hybrid Planetary Gearbox Series from NMB
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A range of complex surgical operations necessary to treat stroke victims, confront hardened arteries or address blockages in the bloodstream are about to be made safer as researchers from the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory at Australia's Monash University put the final touches to the design...Molecular motors and brakes work together in cells
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that microtubules -- components responsible for shape, movement, and replication within cells -- use proteins that act as molecular motors and brakes to organize into their correct structure. If microtubules are not fo...Ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation
Scientists looked to ferns to create a novel energy scavenging device that uses the power of evaporation to move itself---materials that could provide a method for powering micro and nano devices with just water or heat. "We've shown that this idea works," said Michel Maharbiz, assistant professo...Biological motors sort molecules one by one on a chip
Researchers from Delft University of Technology's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience have discovered how to use the motors of biological cells in extremely small channels on a chip. Based on this, they built a transport system that uses electrical charges to direct the molecules individually. To demons...Discovery of agile molecular motors could aid in treating motor neuron diseases
(Philadelphia, PA) - Over the last several months, the labs of Yale Goldman, MD, PhD, Director of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Erika Holzbaur, PhD, Professor of Physiology, have published a group of papers that, taken together, show pro...Molecular Motors Cooperate In Moving Cellular Cargo, Study Shows
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Monash University scientists have unlocked the physics of the perfect pizza toss and will use it to design the next generation of micro motors thinner that a human hair. Mr Daniel (Kuang-Chen) Liu, a PhD student supervised by Associate Professor James Friend and Senior Lecturer Leslie Yeo, vide...WuXi PharmaTech Appoints Felix Hsu as Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations
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