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Huawei Honors NeoPhotonics with 'Core Partner' Designation

NeoPhotonics today announced that the company has achieved “Core Partner” status with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., a global leading provider of next generation telecommunications equipment.

15 Mar 2010

Newly Developed Light Activation Technique Boosts Biomedical Research

Using a novel light activation technique, Scripps Research Institute scientists have been able to turn molecules with only a modest ability to fight specific proteins into virtual protein destroyers.

15 Mar 2010

NAPCO to Display New Fingerprint Reading Keypad at ISC West 2010 Show

NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc., one of the world’s leading suppliers of high performance electronic security equipment for over 30 years, today announced it will be introducing many new breakthrough products at the security industry’s key tradeshow, the International Security Conference (ISC) West, which this year will be going on simultaneously with the Public Security Safety Expo.

12 Mar 2010

New Near-Infrared Label VivoTag 680 XL from VisEn Medical

VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new VivoTag® 680 XL fluorescent dye for labeling biomolecules in a broad range of in vitro and in vivo imaging applications.

12 Mar 2010

Lockheed Martin to Support U.S. Army's Electro-Optical Fire Control System

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to support the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (TADS/PNVS) and Modernized TADS/PNVS (M-TADS/PNVS) systems on the AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Arizona Support Center.

12 Mar 2010

New Guide from Wiley Includes NMR Spectroscopy and UV Spectroscopy Updates

This valuable guide takes organic chemists through the basic techniques of the organic chemistry lab such as interpretation of infrared spectroscopy

12 Mar 2010

MODE Solutions 4.0 for Optical Interconnects and Silicon Photonics Applications

Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of nanophotonic design software, today announced the immediate availability of MODE Solutions Release 4.0.

12 Mar 2010

Optical Experiments to Detect Quantum Properties in Viruses

The weird world of quantum mechanics describes the strange, often contradictory, behaviour of small inanimate objects such as atoms. Researchers have now started looking for ways to detect quantum properties in more complex and larger entities, possibly even living organisms.

12 Mar 2010

Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Helps to Analyze Photosynthetic Protein

For the first time, researchers have been able to confine and study an individual protein, one that plays a key role in photosynthesis, without having to pin it down so tightly as to alter its fundamental behavior.

12 Mar 2010

PartTec Signs Agreement to Manufacture and Distribute DOE's Neutron Detector System

PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

12 Mar 2010