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Zyrobotics Awarded Phase II Funding from the National Science Foundation
NSF SBIR grant aids in the research and expansion of inclusive technology company. - February 20, 2016 - Zyrobotics
ImmunoReagents Introduces LigaTrap™ Purification Resins and Kits
ImmunoReagents is proud to announce LigaTrap™ purification resins and kits. LigaTrap™ technology utilizes novel, patented ligands, designed for antibody purification. Each kit includes 10 spin columns filled with LigaTrap™ resin and buffers needed to capture species-specific... - February 17, 2016 - ImmunoReagents Inc.
ALPCO Releases New Basophil Activation Test Validated for the Evaluation of Kinase Inhibitors in Early Drug Development
ALPCO has released its new InhibiScreen Basophil Activation Test (BAT) which was developed and validated specifically for the evaluation of kinase inhibitors during early drug development. - February 16, 2016 - ALPCO
Concept Design Quest is a Book About Futuristic Vehicles
This vehicle concept (not real) is a futuristic hovering car. This vehicle illustrates the idea of manipulating gravity in order to fly. This is the 2054 Phantom GT (Gravity Thruster). It is meant to be a prediction of a high speed sky car. - February 16, 2016 - Concept Design Quest
Cantor Colburn is the Fastest Growing US Patent Law Firm
For the last ten years, Cantor Colburn LLP has been the fastest growing patent law firm in the country, according to patent analytics and research firm Juristat in its “Rainmaker Firms” blog post on February 4, 2016 (www.juristat.com/rainmaker-firms). Juristat measured growth in... - February 10, 2016 - Cantor Colburn LLP
NanoCellect Closes $1.75M Series A Financing Round to Begin Production of the WOLF Cell Sorter
NanoCellect Biomedical, a developer of affordable and accessible flow cytometry and cell sorting technology for life sciences, will begin production of their WOLF Cell Sorter. The Series A investment was led by Ken Hood of San Diego’s FusionX Ventures, an early-stage investment fund. - February 08, 2016 - NanoCellect
Geoff Notkin Debuts New Meteorite, Draws Crowds at 2016 Tucson Gem and Mineral Shows
Making his 18th consecutive appearance at the Tucson gem and mineral shows, internationally renowned meteorite specialist Geoff Notkin is thrilling visitors to his showroom with an extraordinary display of rare and valuable rocks from outer space. Notkin is a TEDx speaker, meteorite hunter, world... - February 05, 2016 - Aerolite Meteorites, LLC
Vivonics Sells Artificial Lung Technology
Vivonics, Inc. announced today the sale of intellectual property and other assets related to its Artificial Lung technology to Lung Biotechnology PBC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of United Therapeutics Corporation. Vivonics’ development of the Artificial Lung technology was supported by the... - February 04, 2016 - Vivonics, Inc.
Theoretical Ecologist’s New Book Earns Literary Award
A new book by Arild O. Gautestad, which examines theories about how animals use space, has earned the Dog Ear Publishing Award of Literary Excellence. It was just one of nine books released by the company in 2015 to achieve the honor. - January 29, 2016 - Dog Ear Publishing
Handheld Active Fluorometer Now Available for Quick Assessments of Photosynthetic Efficiency of Algae
Turner Designs’ AquaFlash Active Handheld Fluorometer enables quick field assessments of photosynthetic efficiency. - January 29, 2016 - Turner Designs, Inc.
Bev Acreman is Appointed Commercial Director of F1000
F1000, a provider of services to biomedical researchers to support the discovery, writing and publication of new scientific findings, has appointed Bev Acreman as Commercial Director. - January 28, 2016 - Faculty of 1000
ALPCO's New Stool-Based Gastroenterology Assays and Extraction Method Can Improve Lab Sample Processing Time by Up to 86%
ALPCO recently launched a new panel of 13 stool-based gastroenterology assays that are all compatible with one single extraction step, allowing labs to improve sample processing time by up to 86%. - January 26, 2016 - ALPCO
Yuri's Night Congratulates 2015 Spirit of Yuri's Night Award Winner Alan Stern
Dr. Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, is currently the principal investigator of the New Horizons NASA mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Due to his fantastic work to share his team's mission with the public and his efforts over many years to found companies that seek to increase public involvement in spaceflight, Alan is being awarded the Spirit of Yuri's Night award for 2015. - January 26, 2016 - Yuri's Night
Theoretical Ecologist Arild O. Gautestad Releases New Book
Scientists working in the field of animal ecology have a new resource that brings together different disciplines that explore how animals use space. A new book by Arild O. Gautestad, which Dog Ear Publishing reviews, explores theories and concepts to provide a much-needed overview on the topic. - January 26, 2016 - Dog Ear Publishing
Retinal Consultants of Arizona Announces New North Phoenix Location; Adds Second Airplane to Clinical Practice
Retinal Consultants of Arizona (RCA) – one of the nation’s leading Retina & Vitreous clinical research and patient treatment facilities – today announced it has purchased a 35,000 square foot building in North Phoenix to become the latest expansion of its clinical practice and... - January 21, 2016 - Retinal Consultants of Arizona
Bioo Scientific Completes ISO 9001:2008 Recertification Process
Bioo Scientific has been recertified for another three years under the international ISO 9001:2008 standard (ISO CI#: SARA-2009-CA-0114-A). - January 21, 2016 - Bioo Scientific
Gamry to Present a PlugVolt Webinar: EIS and Its Applications to Battery Analysis
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and its Applications to Battery Analysis is the topic of a scheduled PlugVolt sponsored Webinar presented by Dr. Chris Beasley of Gamry Instruments. - January 20, 2016 - Gamry Instruments
Strathmore’s Who’s Who Names Gilbert Gordon the 2016 Professional of the Year in Water Research/Inorganic Chemistry
Gilbert Gordon, of Oxford, Ohio, has been honored as the 2016 Professional of the Year by Strathmore’s Who’s Who for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of Water Research/Inorganic Chemistry. - January 19, 2016 - Strathmore Who's Who
Gamry Instruments to Exhibit at NACE Corrosion 2016
Gamry will be an exhibitor at NACE Corrosion 2016 March 6-10 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. - January 16, 2016 - Gamry Instruments
Drug Safety Company Expands Operations
Drug Safety Navigator, LLC (DSN) Announces Another Expansion in Its Fifth Year of Operation - January 13, 2016 - Drug Safety Navigator, LLC
Da Vinci Press Announces Winning First Prize in London (UK) Book Festival for New Book "Tweeting da Vinci"
Tweeting da Vinci won first place in the London (UK) Book Festival. In its first year of publication, Tweeting da Vinci won numerous gold medals for content and design. Competing against thousands of books, Tweeting da Vinci took top honors in prestigious national and international competitions. - January 12, 2016 - Da Vinci Press
InterCore Reduces Costs, Continues to Advance DADS Development
InterCore announced that development of its core DADS™ (Driver Alertness Detection System™) product has continued to advance, despite non-product challenges faced during 2015. - January 12, 2016 - InterCore, Inc.
World Parkinson’s Program Strives to Improve Parkinson’s Care Around the Globe
World Parkinson's Program held its annual seminar in Toronto, Canada. The seminar was attended by both patients and healthcare professionals to discuss the situation faced by Parkinson's patients around the world. The focus was on patients in underdeveloped countries who cannot afford medications, walkers or canes. - January 12, 2016 - World Parkinson's Program
BÜHLMANN Laboratories Opens North American Affiliate
BÜHLMANN Laboratories is proud to announce the availability of its products directly from its new North American affiliate, BUHLMANN Diagnostics Corp (BDC) in Southern New Hampshire. - January 11, 2016 - BUHLMANN Diagnostics Corp
Virtual Journals Changing the Scientific Publishing Landscape
ScienceOpen, the research and publishing network, has created a tool for researchers to create their own “best of” collections from among over 10 million articles across all publishers and journals. The ‘Collection” principle may change the way scientists access and prioritize academic literature in journals. - January 11, 2016 - ScienceOpen
Cosmic Watch App: The New Dimension of Time
Cosmic Watch app, the abstract concept of time becomes a tangible experience on any mobile phone and tablet. This technical innovation made in Switzerland leads the astronomical clock into the digital age. - January 11, 2016 - Celestial Dynamics Ltd
Big Data is Crushing You, But PicoClusters Will Give You Footing
The data center company will exhibit new educational platforms Wednesday through Saturday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - January 06, 2016 - PicoCluster LLC
New Book by Author Rodney Bartlett Proposes Plausible Insights Into the Universe and Life, Science and Religion
This new book by publishing company Lulu (available from http://www.lulu.com/shop/rodney-bartlett/future-science-does-the-time-warp/hardcover/product-22491492.html) was written by an average citizen, who believes these thoughts relating to future ideas have always existed (though, since he also believes physics' Unification appears to connect every point and time in the Cosmos, obviously not on early 21st-century Earth in every case). - December 31, 2015 - Rodney Bartlett
Strathmore’s Who’s Who Names Gilbert Gordon the 2016 Academic Trailblazer
Gilbert Gordon, of Oxford, Ohio has been honored as the 2016 Academic Trailblazer by Strathmore’s Who’s Who for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of Education. - December 30, 2015 - Strathmore Who's Who
Energetics Launches New Office in Dubai
Today Energetics Incorporated (Energetics) announced the launch of its new office in Dubai, UAE, to expand Energetics’ clean energy and energy management consulting services into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This office located in Dubai Science Park (DSP), the... - December 20, 2015 - Energetics
MiTeGen Announces Diode Beam Stop License Agreement with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
MiTeGen LLC, a provider of innovative consumables for X-ray diffraction, crystallography and protein crystallization to academic, pharmaceutical, industrial and government researchers around the world, announced that it has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Lawrence Berkeley National... - December 17, 2015 - MiTeGen, LLC
VIRUN NutraBIOsciences Collaborates with Otwo Biotech Shenzhen; 6 New Patent Applications in 2015; Virun’s New Facility is High-Tech; New Webinar Takes a Look Inside
VIRUN continues its’ interstellar growth by working with Chinese company Otwo Biotech of Shenzhen to bring new highly concentrated EPA DHA Omega products to market. Six new patent applications added to an already robust holdings. Virun’s new facility in Pomona, CA. nears completion and boasts State of the Art, eco-friendly functionalism, that includes heightened spray drying capabilities. A Live, upcoming Webinar, Feb. 2016, showcasing an "Inside Look" into VIRUN manufacturing and R&D. - December 16, 2015 - VIRUN
Institutions of Higher Education Win 100,000 Strong in the Americas Funding for Study Abroad with Support from ExxonMobil
The White House, U.S. Department of State, Partners of the Americas, and NAFSA announced nine new 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund grants sponsored by ExxonMobil to support university partnerships and new study abroad programs at an event with Vice President Joe Biden. The goal of 100,000 Strong in the Americas is to increase study abroad opportunities in order to enhance hemispheric competitiveness, increase prosperity, and prepare a more global workforce. - December 16, 2015 - Partners of the Americas
New Tool for Detecting and Measuring Aggressiveness of Prostate Cancer Outlined in Latest Oncology Journal by PiscoMed Publishing
Scientists claim method is potentially more accurate than PSA and could minimize predicament of over-diagnosis at screening. - December 14, 2015 - PiscoMed Publishing Pte Ltd
Recursion Pharmaceuticals Receives $2.6 Million in Follow-on Seed Funding
Funding will be used to accelerate and scale the company’s proprietary drug discovery platform. - December 08, 2015 - Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Geoff Notkin Delivers TEDx Talk at Switzerland’s Institut Le Rosey
On Saturday, November 14, Emmy-winning television host and action scientist Geoff Notkin commanded the stage at Institut Le Rosey, delivering an inspiring TEDx talk to the students, faculty and staff of the prestigious Swiss boarding school, along with students of Aiglon College, other prominent... - December 05, 2015 - Aerolite Meteorites, LLC
F2G Ltd Announces the Acceptance of F901318 to Participate in the EMA’s Adaptive Pathways Pilot Programme
F2G Ltd, a UK based antifungal drug discovery and development company, today announced that its novel systemic antifungal product F901318 has been accepted to participate in the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Adaptive Pathways pilot programme. Initiated in March 2014, the Adaptive... - December 03, 2015 - F2G Ltd
Garmor Develops Transparent Graphene Oxide Films for Protective Coatings
Garmor, a leading graphene technology provider and developer of advance costumer-driven applications, has developed graphene oxide-based coatings useful for limiting UV radiation damage to sensors and polymers. This was achieved by leveraging inexpensive manufacturing methods for few-layer graphene... - December 02, 2015 - Garmor
Esteemed Lifetime Member of America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals, Professor Gilbert Gordon, Has Been Inducted Into the 2016 Hall of Fame
Professional of the Year 2016, Professor Gilbert Gordon of Oxford, Ohio has been inducted into the 2016 America’s Registry Hall of Fame for his accomplishments and achievements in the fields Water Research and Inorganic Chemistry. - December 01, 2015 - America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals
Omni International Expands Bead Mill Consumable Line Introduces Microbial DNA Free Certified Pre-Filled Bead Tubes
Omni International Inc., the US based homogenizer equipment and lysing chemistry manufacturer, today reinforced its leadership in the bead mill homogenizer market with the launch of a new Microbial DNA Free certification process to improve the quality of the Omni bead mill consumable line. Building... - December 01, 2015 - Omni International
Bioo Scientific Launches Completely Gel-Free or Low Input Small RNA Library Prep Kit
Bioo Scientific recently launched the NEXTflex™ Small RNA-Seq Kit v3, which improves small RNA analysis by making the library prep protocol completely gel-free or allowing for low-input small RNA library preparation. This kit also reduces the biases associated with small RNA sequencing by... - November 25, 2015 - Bioo Scientific
The MaxSignal Colistin ELISA Test Kit Can Help Prevent the Antibiotic Apocalypse by Keeping Last Resort Drugs Out of the Food Supply
Colistin resistance likely emerged after the drug was overused in farm animals. Colistin is intended to be used by physicians as a drug of last resort to treat Gram-negative superbug infections, but has been overused in agriculture. Bioo Scientific’s MaxSignal® Colistin ELISA Test Kit is the only commercially available ELISA optimized for the screening of colistin in poultry and other meat samples and eggs, to prevent the spread of colistin resistance by keeping colistin out of the food supply. - November 25, 2015 - Bioo Scientific
ASSIST Wins Big at IDTechEx Wearable USA 2015
With a vision to achieve a comprehensive assessment of health and environment through wearable technologies that enable multi-modal sensing, the ASSIST Center excels at making hassle-free and reliable nano-enabled devices for on body sensing. At the most recent IDTechEx Wearable USA conference the ASSIST Center and Dr. Zhu captivated judges winning an award: Best Wearable Material/Component Development. - November 25, 2015 - ASSIST Research Center
Global Infusion Pumps and Accessories Market Was Valued at US$ 5,874.3 Million in 2014 and Expected to Grow at a CAGR of 5.0% from 2015 to 2019
According to the new report “Global Infusion Pumps & Accessories Market Assessment & Forecast, 2015-2019” by SA-Business Research & Consulting Group, North America leads the market for global infusion pumps and accessories with a share of 38.0% in 2014 that translated into revenues worth US$ 2,320.3 million. - November 22, 2015 - SA-BRC
Aurora Scientific Inc. Unveils New Brand and Celebrates the Official Opening of a New Manufacturing Facility
On October 8, 2015, Aurora Scientific, a science and technology firm in Aurora, ON welcomed guests to celebrate the official launch of their new brand and grand opening of their new manufacturing facility. The event brought together local suppliers and dignitaries, valued clients, families and friends, marking a milestone for the growing company. - November 21, 2015 - Aurora Scientific Inc.
Mary Kay Bader, Distinguished Leader in Neuroscience Nursing, Joins Cerebrotech’s Scientific Advisory Board
Cerebrotech Medical Systems of Pleasanton, California, today announced that Mary Kay Bader, RN, MSN, CCNS, FAHA, FNCS, renowned Critical Care Nurse Specialist and educator, has joined the company’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Ms. Bader is a prominent leader in neurologic intensive care,... - November 19, 2015 - Cerebrotech Medical Systems
Update on Glycomics - Achieve Safe, Easy, and Accurate O-Glycan Analysis with BlotGlyco® O-Glycan Sample Preparation Kit
MoBiTec to launch Sumitomo's BlotGlyco® O-Glycan Sample Preparation Kit, a streamlined process for releasing and purifying O-glycans for detection by HPLC, LC-MS, and MALDI-TOF MS. - November 19, 2015 - MoBiTec GmbH
Gilbert Gordon, Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry Named Man of the Year 2015 by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication
Gilbert Gordon, Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry of Oxford, Ohio has been named Man of the Year for 2015 by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the fields of education and chemistry. About Gilbert Gordon, Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry Dr. - November 18, 2015 - Strathmore Worldwide
BUHLMANN Laboratories Announces New, Direct US Affiliate
BÜHLMANN Laboratories is proud to announce the establishment of its North American affiliate, BUHLMANN Diagnostics Corp (BDC) in Southern New Hampshire. - November 16, 2015 - BUHLMANN Diagnostics Corp
Gamry Instruments to Sponsor Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Short Course
Registration is now open for the Spring 2016 EIS Short Course being held in Houston, TX. - November 15, 2015 - Gamry Instruments