12-01-2010

A strip of paper infused with carbon nanotubes can quickly and inexpensively detect a toxin produced by algae in drinking water. Engineers at the University of Michigan led the development of the new biosensor. The paper strips perform 28 times faster than the complicated method most ...

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A sensor can detect a single nanoparticle and take its measurement

23-12-2009

Nanotechnology has already made it to the shelves of your local pharmacy and grocery: nanoparticles are found in anti-odor socks, makeup, makeup remover, sunscreen, anti-graffiti paint, home pregnancy tests, plastic beer bottles, anti-bacterial doorknobs, plastic bags for storing vegetables, ...

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10-08-2009

A previously unrecognized player in the process by which gases produced by trees and other plants become aerosols has been discovered by a research team led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Their research on the creation and effects of these chemicals, called ...

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08-07-2009

Fifteen years ago, when Alan Lakso first sought to enlist Cornell's nanofabrication laboratory to develop a tiny sensor that would measure water stress in grapevines, the horticultural sciences professor ended up back at the drawing board. It wasn't until Abraham Stroock, associate professor ...

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17-03-2009

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron microscope to make three-dimensional images of the nano-particles that are at the heart of the ...

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Board of Directors Chairman Mike Baronian will not stand for re-election at the ordinary Annual General Meeting 2009

05-03-2009

Change in the Board of Directors of Tecan: in line with a periodic renewal, the Tecan Board of Directors proposes to the ordinary Annual General Meeting on 22 April 2009 Heinrich Fischer, Gérard Vaillant, Prof. Dr. Peter Ryser und Dr. Jürg Meier for re-election and Rolf A. Classon, Dr. Lukas ...

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30-01-2008

In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic "lab-on-a-chip" devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) at ...

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Integrated in European business structure

04-01-2007

Shimadzu is completing its European business restructuring process step by step and focusing on establishing independent companies in major markets and countries all over Europe. This structure forms part of the "Strategy of the Future" formulated in 2004 in order to better support new trends ...

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21-12-2006

Tecan announced that the Board of Directors of the Tecan Group AG has appointed Matthew Robin and Carl Severinghaus as members of the Group Executive Committee. With the further strengthening of the senior management team and the new organizational structure implemented earlier this year, ...

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12-10-2006

Chi-Chang Kao, a physicist, has been named Chair of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) Department, effective October 1. Kao had served as interim NSLS Chair since mid-January, after Steve Dierker stepped down to lead the development of the National Synchrotron Light Source II ...

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