Cutting edge approaches and methodology employed by plant and molecular biologists, chemists, physicists, material scientists, computational modelers and engineers will be applied to plant cells in the newly funded Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, a Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center at Penn State.

At the SMT (Systems Integration in Microelectronics) fair in Nuremberg, Leica Microsystems is presenting its innovative LED illumination modules for stereomicroscopes, which offer optimum illumination even for difficult material samples

EV Group, a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced it has received an order from AmberWave Systems for its EVG520IS wafer bonding system and its EVG810LT low-temperature plasma activation system.

Arrowhead Research Corporation today announced that the Company's Scientific Advisory Board member Dr. Chad Mirkin has been appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) foerdert die international ausgerichtete 1. Chemnitzer DAAD-Sommer-Akademie zum Thema 'Strukturbildung - Von der Atomwolke zum Kristall (Structure Formation - From a Cloud of Atoms to a Crystal)'.

Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, is pleased to announce that the NA61 Experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, has submitted purchase orders for Zecotek's proprietary third generation Micro-pixel Avalanche Photo Diodes (MAPD-3N).

Sigma-Aldrich today announced the global release of MISSION esiRNA, a pool of gene-specific siRNA that provides a novel and powerful approach to RNAi screening in mammalian cells.

Scientists at FSU, and even more broadly throughout Florida, will soon have access to the highest resolution - 80 picometers, or one-trillionth of a meter - of any commercially available S/TEM in its class.

SUSS MicroTec Test Systems has announced that it has once again won a head-to-head evaluation with its unique PA300PS with ProbeShield Technology, the 300 mm wafer-level probe system for device characterization and reliability test.

Jay Pritzker Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Alexander F. Mayer, will present a talk at the American Physical Society (APS) Meeting in Denver, Colorado on Saturday, May 2, 2009 entitled 'The Geometry of Time in General Relativity'.