01/01/2007 In its current space mission on board the international space station (ISS), NASA is using air-sampling equipment from the Goettingen-based technology group Sartorius.
01/01/2007 W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Newark, DE) recently donated a supply of cleanroom garments to be used in the semiconductor research space of the Birck Nanotechnology Center’s Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory, an ISO Class 3 (Class 1) facility at Purdue University.
01/01/2007 This year’s ESTECH event, which will be held April 29-May 2 at the Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, IL, will feature a number of new seminars.
01/01/2007 ISPE recently announced that it will collaborate with FDA to facilitate the implementation of the new quality guidelines (Q8 and Q9) developed by the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH).
01/01/2007 Photonics and nanotechnology have a synergy rarely seen. But nano-optical devices are not prevalent in the marketplace, even though the academic labs churn out one breakthrough after another.
01/01/2007 The world’s favorite building blocks company embraced the world of nanotech this year by making “Nano Quest” the theme for its FIRST Lego League (FLL) 2006 Challenge.
01/01/2007 A trio of new reports outlined safety procedures nanotechnology labs and companies are practicing now and what research nanotechnologists should investigate over the next 15 years to help alleviate concerns about its risks.
01/01/2007 Early stage technology companies that enter partnerships such as original equipment manufacture or reseller agreements with industry 800-pound gorillas (further referred to as the ‘other party’) typically have little or no negotiating leverage.
01/01/2007 An executive of an emerging nanotechnology company knows all too well the value that investors and others place on the early certainty a patent brings to being able to protect the company’s inventions.