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Alumnus' Gift to Advance the Field of Biologically Inspired Engineering

Engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss MBA '65 has given Harvard University $125 million to create the Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

9 Oct 2008

KU Researchers Devising Nanotechnology that Could Help Supplant Fossil Fuels and Curb Climate Change

A team of physicists, engineers, chemists and biologists at the University of Kansas and partner institutions is devising nanotechnology that could help supplant fossil fuels and curb climate change. Led by Judy Wu, Univ...

9 Oct 2008

Industry Leaders Announced Agreement to Develop Maskless ICs

Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited, e-Shuttle, Inc. -- a joint venture established by FML and Advantest Corporation -- and D2S, an emerging design and software company, today announced an agreement under which FML and e-Sh...

9 Oct 2008

Advancement of Assay Made Possible Through Loan Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center

Trana Discovery, Inc., a drug discovery technology company, today announced plans for the development of a new High-Throughput Screening (HTS) assay capable of selectively identifying compounds that inhibit the reproduct...

9 Oct 2008

New Partnership Paves Way for Future Collaborations

A memorandum of understanding was signed today by Imperial College and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute, to facilitate increased research collaborations between the two organisations.

9 Oct 2008

New Type of LED Centered on Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Holiday Creations/Diogen Lighting, Inc. and Evident Technologies, Inc. today announced the signing of an exclusive licensing and purchase agreement to enable a new type of LED to be commercialized in the seasonal light s...

9 Oct 2008

Solterra Concluded Worldwide Exclusive License with Rice University

Hague Corp., a resource exploration company, is pleased to announce that Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. has concluded the worldwide exclusive license with the William Marsh Rice University for intellectual propert...

9 Oct 2008

UCL Joins Forces with Japan to Provide New Nanoscience Research Centre

As part of a unique collaborative agreement, a UCL partner project has joined forces with the Japanese government to provide a major new nanoscience research centre. Based at The Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge Univer...

9 Oct 2008

Rice Leads Nation in Industry Impact for Quality of its Nanotechnology Patents

Rice University has leapt to the forefront of American research universities for the impact on industry of its accumulated patents, according to a company that analyzes intellectual property. The Patent Board, a Chica...

9 Oct 2008

Using Cells as Factories to Make DNA Based Nanostructures

In the tiny realm of nanotechnology, scientists have used a wide variety of materials to build atomic scale structures. But just as in the construction business, nanotechnology researchers can often be limited by the amo...

9 Oct 2008