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Light Powered Home-Based Hair Removal Cleared by FDA

Home Skinovations Ltd. announced today that the Silk'n(TM) device was cleared by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for home-based removal of unwanted hair under the direction of a physician.

24 Mar 2008

Census Shows Slow-down in Expenditures for CT Technology

According to IMV Medical Information Division's recent census of CT sites in the U.S., an estimated 68.7 million CT procedures were performed in 7,640 hospital and non-hospital sites in 2007. This represents an average annual growth rate of ~8% since 2003, when an estimated 50.1 million procedures were performed.

24 Mar 2008

The Annual Excellence in X-ray Diffraction Scholarship

Bruker AXS, a leading global provider of advanced X-ray solutions for life and advanced materials sciences, announced that it is again awarding its annual Excellence in X-ray Diffraction (XRD) scholarship -- based on unique experiments performed by university students.

24 Mar 2008

Platform Reduces Splicing Costs without Sacrificing Quality or Convenience

Clearfield, Inc., today announced the FieldSmart Fiber Scalability CenterTM (FSC), a first-of-its-kind complete PON solution for managing up to 576 distribution fibers for an outside plant FTTx application.

24 Mar 2008

Professional Mobile Projectors Offer Brilliant Color

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading stand-alone provider of commercial and residential LCD and plasma displays and projectors, announced today its NP Value Series, which consists of two new mobile projectors, the NP100 and NP200.

24 Mar 2008

Leading-Edge Research on Photovoltaic-Based Solar Cells

The University of Delaware's Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) will receive $3.75 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar America Initiative over the next three years to continue leading-edge research on photovoltaic-based solar cells.

24 Mar 2008

Animated Linear Light Sculpture Dynamically Responds to Shoppers' Movements

Lighting Science Group, a leading developer and manufacturer of intelligent and energy-efficient LED lighting solutions, has partnered with Jason Bruges Studio, in creating a unique one-of-a-kind experience integrating innovative animated lighting.

24 Mar 2008

Patients to Benefit from HD-PET Technology

Siemens Healthcare announces the official release and world's first clinical installation of HD-PET technology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

24 Mar 2008

DARPA Project Advances Chip Communications Via Proximity and Optical Connections

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Sun $44.29 million funding for a five and a half-year research project focused on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by Silicon photonics and proximity communication.

24 Mar 2008

System Represents Significant Advancement in Accuracy in Disposable Sensors

Finesse Solutions, LLC, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences process applications, announces the release of TruFluor(TM), a single use optical dissolved oxygen measurement system, at Interphex in Philadelphia on March 26, 2008.

24 Mar 2008

Museum Showcases Kent Displays' Reflex Display Technology

Kent Displays announced today that several of its Reflex(TM) display products are showcased in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry's The Glass Experience exhibition which opened last week. Visitors will be able to interact and view displays that highlight the company's cornerstone cholesteric liquid crystal display technology.

22 Mar 2008

New Study Provides More Insight into Cataracts

A new study appearing online March 21 in JBC provides more insight into cataracts, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in the elderly, finding that small pieces of a perfectly normal protein become toxic during the aging process.

22 Mar 2008

Lumera Corporation Awarded Contract to Design and Fabricate Polymer Materials

Lumera Corporation, a leader in the field of photonic communications, announced today that it has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract in the amount of $98,933 to design and fabricate polymer devices. Upon successful completion of certain milestones, Lumera could receive a subsequent contract in the range of $750,000.

22 Mar 2008

Most Energetic Particles Not From the Neighborhood

Final results from the University of Utah's High-Resolution Fly's Eye cosmic ray observatory show that the most energetic particles in the universe rarely reach Earth at full strength because they come from great distances, so most of them collide with radiation left over from the birth of the universe.

21 Mar 2008

Spectacular LED Strip - The Shape of Futuristic Headlighting

Pininfarina's futuristic Sintesi concept car caused a sensation at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, not least because of its spectacular headlight design featuring high-brightness LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors.

20 Mar 2008