An Inside Look at the World’s Newest Quantum Computing and Nanotechnology Center

Inside this lab, your mobile phone doesn’t work. You don’t feel any outside noise or vibrations, even if a freight train passes just a few feet away. You need three months of training before they’ll let you into the nanotech clean room where molecular assembly happens.
I’m in the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, Ontario, which just added a new 283,000-square foot, $160 million research facility to its existing two buildings.
“We work on the science of the small,” executive-in-residence Rob Crow says. “We sit at the junction of pure research and technological innovation.”

The new facility, which will accommodate some of the Institute’s current 200 researchers as well as provide space for an additional 200 over the next year or so, took seven years to build, mostly because it needs to be completely insulated from outside radiation, vibration, and contamination…

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Letter: NanoCollege a winning strategy

This October marks Valutek’s 25th anniversary of supporting high-tech manufacturers with their cleanroom consumables: the gloves, “bunny suits,” wipes and other products that keep operators clean in their critical environment. During that time, the one constant I have observed is change.

I was attracted to move my company from Arizona to New York because Gov. Andrew Cuomo recognizes the changing landscape within the high-tech environment. His vision for creating a leading innovation economy fueled by nanotechnology is a winning strategy…

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Bionic Eye is Now a Reality

Called the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, the device recently was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Second Sight, which has 100 employees, is allowed to sell the bionic eye system to patients in the U.S. with advanced retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that can cause blindness.

“We are a far cry from restoring 20/20 vision,” said Brian V. Mech, Second Sight’s vice president of business development, who holds a doctorate in materials science and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. “We are taking blind people back up to low vision, and that is pretty significant.”

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Young Students Aim to be Among First to Launch Small Satellite

Students at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, VA are aiming to be a part of a milestone. The school is looking to become the first K-8 school to launch a “CubeSat” satellite into space. The proposed satellite that the students will build would be four inches long in all directions and would weigh around three pounds. The project has to be approved by NASA, but if the school gets clearance, the satellite will have a planned launch date sometime later in 2014. The CubeSat satellite that St. Thomas More students have planned will be designed to take photographs and temperature readings, and have them beamed back to the school on Earth…

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The Global Society For Contamination Control (GSFCC) is attending INTERPHEX 2013 in New York

The Global Society For Contamination Control(GSFCC) is attending INTERPHEX 2013 in New York!  Be sure to stop by Booth 3783 and visit Greg Heiland, Director of the GSFCC and CEO of Valutek.

Satellite business is recession proof thanks to exports

The scientists and engineers at Astrium, in Anchorage Park, Hilsea, are responsible to developing and building the ‘brains’ for every satellite.  Called the payload, it is the part that records data, takes pictures, beams television, broadband or radio signals back to Earth.  The payload was crated up and sent on its way to Toulouse in France, where it will be assembled, tested, shipped to French Guyana, tested again, and then launched into space.  This one will be providing people in the Far East with a television service similar to Sky in the UK.  Richard Peckham, strategy and business development director for Astrium in the UK, said so far the firm had avoided any effect from the recession.

 

TN Drug Supplier Recalls All Products – Pharmaceutical Compounding

Green Valley Drugs, a Utah-based pharmacy compounder licensed to sell drugs in Tennessee, has recalled all of its sterile products after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration documented sterility issues.

Those products include methylprednisolone acetate — the same drug New England Compounding Center made that was linked to the nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis. However, Green Valley said it had received no reports or injuries from its products. The recall comes after a round of surveillance inspections by the FDA — one of which pointed out issues with a Memphis compounder…

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