10/02/2003 September 24, 2003 - Aeronex Inc.. San Diego, CA, and Italy's SAES Getters have ended their patent litigation concerning ammonia and hydride purifiers.
10/02/2003 Japanese chemical manufacturing firm Showa Denko KK (SDK) and an engineering professor at Japan's Shinshu University have established a joint venture for research of advanced carbon materials for use in energy devices, according to news release.
10/02/2003 Affymetrix Inc. commercially launched a microarray that offers researchers the entire transcribed human genome on a single chip, according to a news release.
10/02/2003 Applied Nanotech Inc. might beat a bunch of hopefuls in developing the first carbon nanotube field emission device (CNT-FED) television. If ANI delivers, the realization of CNT-FED technologies for a mass market after 2005 could become a reality after many promises but few actual products, according to some of the technology's critics.
10/01/2003 SEPT. 30--BOSTON, Mass.--Federal health officials announced that Boston University Medical Center has won a hard-fought national competition to build and run a high-security bioterror defense laboratory in the heart of the South End, a project with the promise of generating $1.6 billion in research grants, according to sources knowledgeable about the selection.
10/01/2003 SEPT. 30--WILMINGTON, Mass.--GE General Eastern Instruments, Inc. a business unit of GE Industrial Systems and the General Electric Company has announced the availability of the Humilab product line, a NIST traceable humidity generator and chamber ideal for calibrating a wide variety of humidity sensors, transmitters and instruments.
10/01/2003 OCT. 1--BRUSSELS, Belgium--European Commissioner David Byrne welcomed the Agriculture Council's decision this week on new rules to cut the incidence of foodborne diseases in the European Union.
10/01/2003 The NanoBusiness Alliance has teamed up with a nonprofit educational organization to bring nanotech into U.S. science classrooms, according to a news release.
10/01/2003 NanoSystems, the drug delivery business unit of Elan Corp. PLC, has signed a licensing deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., according to a news release.
10/01/2003 Decontamination and decommissioning were the hot topics of discussion at the recently concluded annual conferences and exposition of the American Glovebox Society (AGS) held in San Antonio, Texas.
10/01/2003 After a "run-in" period, Ibsen Photonics A/S says the manufacturing process of its holographic phase mask line has been successfully relocated from an ISO Class 5 to a newly built 14,000 square-foot ISO Class 4 cleanroom facility in this Danish community, located 13 miles from Copenhagen.
10/01/2003 Whether it's a refresher course in contamination control practices or a technical session on containment in high potent compound processing, CleanRooms Puerto Rico 2003 will be a forum where end users can gain an edge in the ever-changing life sciences world.
10/01/2003 For the first time since March, North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers in July saw an uptick in billings and new orders, resulting in their best book-to-bill ratio since the cold dark days of February.
10/01/2003 A final guidance on the use of electronic records and signatures as well as four draft documents on aseptic processing, resolving disputes over scientific and technical issues, protocols and process analytical technology are the latest accomplishments in the Food and Drug Administration's initiative, Pharmaceutical Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) for the 21st Century: A Risk Based Approach.
10/01/2003 Production was down for only 24 hours at Cold Springs, an international quartz crystal sensor and thin film-coating manufacturer, while a modular cleanroom manufactured by SBB Inc. was relocated to a new, larger facility.
10/01/2003 Following International Sematech's recent endorsement, the semiconductor industry may embark on a wet—but insiders hope not wild—ride down the road toward immersion lithography.
10/01/2003 With all of the unfolding contamination control guidelines and cleanroom technology adaptation in the life sciences the life sciences and semiconductor markets, it's easy to overlook some of the ground-breaking initiatives that the world's automakers and auto parts producers are pushing forward in an effort to differentiate themselves in one of the world's most competitive markets.
10/01/2003 Naysayers may believe the Food and Drug Administration's latest plans to revamp current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs) are way too ambitious, but to the believers, it may just be a dream come true that promises to catapult life sciences into the future.
