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American Fiber Systems Gives KU and K-State Light-Speed Link to the World

American Fiber Systems (AFS), a leading Kansas City optical broadband network provider, is lighting the way for research and collaboration at KU and K-State. AFS is providing the two largest universities in Kansas with a dark fiber based network enabling high bandwidth connectivity to other learning institutions across the state of Kansas.

4 Dec 2007

Polarized Light Microscope Plays Crucial Role in Developing Medical Therapies

A noninvasive, polarized light microscope invented at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) played a crucial role in a recent breakthrough in embryonic stem-cell research aimed at developing medical therapies.

3 Dec 2007

QPC Wins Major Contract to Deliver Lasers Used in Rear Projection Televisions

"QPC," a world leader in the development and commercialization of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it has won a major contract to develop and deliver lasers to be used in rear projection televisions based on DLP and LCOS technologies.

3 Dec 2007

Window Films Provides Simple and Effective Protection from Damaging Radiation

With summertime days away in the southern hemisphere, the threat from an unseen intruder significantly increases. Overexposure to UV radiation, highest during summer months, causes about 60,000 deaths a year worldwide, according to World Health Organization (WHO).

3 Dec 2007

Engineers Design Microparticles Using UV Lights

MIT engineers have used ultraviolet light to sculpt three-dimensional microparticles that could have many applications in medical diagnostics and tissue engineering. For example, they could be designed to act as probes to detect certain molecules, such as DNA, or to release drugs or nutrients.

3 Dec 2007

Health Consequences of Having Too Many CT Scans

Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an increasingly used X-ray-based tool for providing a three-dimensional view of a particular organ or tissue. The value of CT scanning to diagnose injury, cancer and other health problems is undisputed. But are these scans being used too frequently, in some cases unnecessarily" What are the health consequences of having too many CT scans over the course of a person’s life"

29 Nov 2007

Sophisticated CT Scan Diagnoses Chest Pain in Emergency Department

In the future, patients who arrive at a hospital Emergency Department complaining of chest pain may be diagnosed with a sophisticated CT scan. If the diagnosis is negative, the patient can go home—and the total time at the hospital will be much shorter than it is today.

28 Nov 2007

Veeco Announces Availability of Table-Top Optical Profiling System

Veeco Instruments Inc., today announced the release of the Wyko(R) NT9100(TM) Optical Profiling System, which delivers the performance and many of the capabilities of Veeco's full-sized profiling systems in a convenient and affordable table-top footprint. The new system is ideal for many applications in research, industrial, quality control, and failure analysis.

From Veeco 28 Nov 2007

Johns Hopkins Installs Most Powerful X-Ray Imaging Machine in its Class

The first 320-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner in North America, the most powerful X-ray imaging machine in its class, has been installed and is in operation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

27 Nov 2007

Competitive Technologies Signs Joined Agreement for Solar Panel Technology

Competitive Technologies, Inc. and Articulated Technologies, LLC today announced that they have signed an agreement for CTT to license and commercialize Articulated's patented organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology for adaptation to solar power. The agreement provides for revenue sharing between CTT and Articulated of royalty and licensing payments.

26 Nov 2007