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  • Engineers Develop Improved Computer Memory Device

    Researchers from North Carolina State University in Raleigh have developed a new device that its inventors say can make large banks of computers more energy efficient, and allow computers to start more quickly. The advance, developed by a faculty-student team from NC State’s engineering school, will be published in an upcoming issue of the IEEE…

  • National Lab, University Develop Tougher, Stronger Glass

    A group of engineering and materials scientists have developed a new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness that they say goes beyond that of any known material. The team had members from California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.…

  • Standards Proposed for Prescription Drug Labels

    The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), a standards–setting body for prescription and over–the–counter medicines, has prepared a set of standards to guide the content, language, format, and appearance of prescription medication labels in the U.S. The draft standards are open for a 90-day public comment period. USP says the standards, now in draft, reflect how patients…

  • Small Business Research Grants Reauthorized in DADT Bill [Updated]

    UPDATE, 27 DECEMBER: My reading of the legislation and commentary was in error. It turns out the language to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell replaced the SBIR/STTR authorization text in the bill, not added to the original text, as I first reported. SBIR and STTR are still on a temporary authorization through the end of…

  • Biotech Makes Available Stem Cell Lines to Researchers

    BioTime Inc., a biotechnology company in Alameda, California said today it concluded an agreement to make five research-grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines available to University of California (UC) system researchers. These lines are genetically identical to the Good Management Practice (GMP)-compliant hES cell lines that will be made available to researchers in California…

  • Fraunhofer USA Gets FDA Go-Ahead for H5N1 Vaccine Trial

    Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology (CMB) in Newark, Delaware says it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proceed with the first human clinical trial of its plant-produced H5N1 influenza — avian flu — vaccine. The research institute filed an Investigational New Drug Application for its plant-derived H5N1 vaccine with…

  • Univ of Washington Sues GE for Patent Infringement

    The University of Washington in Seattle filed suit in federal court against global manufacturer General Electric Company and its subsidiary GE Healthcare for infringing on a patent held by the university for registering images from ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sources. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent to the university in…

  • Testing Labs Score Well Finding Heavy Metals in Seafood

    The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Brussels, Belgium released results today of a study that benchmarks the abilities of laboratories around the world to measure heavy metals in fish and seafood. The labs, located mainly in Europe but also in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries, took part voluntarily in the study and generally…

  • Lab Adds Nanoscale Layers on Silicon for Semiconductors

    Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have integrated ultra-thin layers of the semiconductor material indium arsenide onto a silicon substrate to create a nanoscale transistor with working electronic properties. Indium arsenide offers several advantages as an alternative to silicon including superior electron mobility…

  • Graphene-Based Material Developed with Teflon Properties

    Scientists from University of Manchester in the U.K. and elsewhere have created a new material which could replace or compete with Teflon in thousands of everyday applications. The team, including Manchester’s Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov who won the 2010 Nobel Prize for their research on graphene –- the world’s thinnest material — has now…