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PerkinElmer and Rigaku Americas' co-marketing agreement allows both companies to share information and provide customers with a single point of contact for PerkinElmers atomic spectroscopy solutions.
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Michigan State University today announced the signing of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy concerning the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. The agreement, an important milestone towards establishing the FRIB project, provides the instrument for DOE Office of Science to provide financial assistance to MSU to design and establish the new facility.
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In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research and innovation for long-term competitive advantage.
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According to the National Venture Capital Assn. (NVCA), total venture capital investment for the first quarter of this year was at its lowest in 12 years, down 47% in dollar amounts from the fourth quarter of 2008, and 58% from the same period last year.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) made its first major award under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to construct the Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV).
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National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden L. Bement, Jr. recently presented the agency's proposed $7.045 billion budget for fiscal year (FY) 2010, an 8.5 percent increase over its planned expenditures for FY 2009. The additional $555 million would increase funding for major investments in the scientific infrastructure, research endeavors and human capital.
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Science-related agencies fare well in President Barack Obama's proposed federal budget for the 2010 fiscal year, according to White House science adviser John P. Holdren.
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The Halcyon Commercialization Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the first space available for lease to private companies at a national laboratory, and four companies have already signed leases, officials said at a Monday afternoon open house.
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It has been more than 120 years since physician and pill pioneer W.E. Upjohn founded a company in his native city that would become one of the nation's largest drug makers.
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Progressive companies will shift to recovery mode before rivals by tracking the key leading indicators and developing a strategic plan.
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Waters Corporation and the University of Warwick, Coventry and Warwickshire, England, have signed a collaborative research agreement intended to support the growth, development and adoption of novel mass spectrometry (MS) technologies
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