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May 28, 2009





What’s in your ‘backyard’?
by Joe Jancsurak,Editor

A recent “media tour” to visit three Pennsylvania-based companies reinforced the importance of knowing and working with state-funded agencies whose collective goal is to foster opportunities for businesses to thrive.

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Articles



GCMI to be first for SE

The planned Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) will be the first of its kind in the Southeast.

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Choose Bimba PFCN for your Medical Solutions

Bimba’s new non-contact position feedback cylinders deliver higher accuracy and reliability to critical medical measuring and positioning applications. Their durable, internal non-contact transducers maintain positioning accuracy for the life of the cylinder. Rod locks, which freeze the position of the cylinder rod in the event of a power outage, are available for use as fail-safes. Matched electronic closed loop controls simplify integration into flexible automation.

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‘Dyeing’ to figure out how the brain works

Voltage-sensitive dye and optical recording techniques are giving neuroscientists at Georgetown University’s Department of Physiology and Biophysics, where Professor Jian-Young Wu has been conducting research on waves of neuronal activity, a new means for figuring out how the brain works.

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China’s clinical lab market surges

Diagnostic companies are finding China to be a vibrant market for their products, according to a recent report showing that China’s IVD business will grow to more than $1.5 billion in 2009, making it the world's sixth largest IVD market. The last few years have seen market growth of 15 to 20%. And with about 575 new hospitals opening each year and a government plan to open more than 20,000 health clinics, the lab market is booming.

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New Products



Online piezo shopping

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., Auburn, MA, announces its Piezo Basics online store.

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Flex-Frames for prototyping

Universal Air Filter, Sauget, IL, a custom designer of air filters, announces that customers can now use its Flex-Frame prototyping service for free in conjunction with the 3D CAD downloads.

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Converter chip for CT equipment

The ADAS1128 24-bit current-to-digital converter chip by Analog Devices, Norwood, MA, lets CT scanners capture real-time moving images — such as a beating heart — with a high degree of accuracy and detail.

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