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CAMBRIDGE, England, March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Plastic Logic is proud to announce that the company has been awarded the Elektronik Optoelectronic Product of the Year 2013 Award for its full colour flexible plastic displays. Plastic Logic's low-power unbreakable, colour and monochrome flexible plastic displays [http://www.plasticlogic.com/applications ] are thinner, lighter and much more robust than standard glass-based electrophoretic displays. The company has...
CAMBRIDGE, England, February 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sphere Fluidics, an early-stage, Cambridge-based company focusing on developing novel products and services for single cell analysis, has just completed a $2.5 million investment round. The investment syndicate was led by 24Haymarket and included the Royal Society, Cambridge Enterprise Limited, Providence Investment Company Limited, University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund, the London Business Angels Roundtable EIS Fund and...
CAMBRIDGE, England, February 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Plastic Logic is proud to announce that the company has been awarded the prestigious FLEXI 2013 R&D Award for the development of a scalable manufacturing process for integrating a colour filter array on a flexible plastic display. Having already developed and qualified its process for the manufacture of monochrome flexible plastic displays [http://www.plasticlogic.com/technology ], Plastic Logic then went on to...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online On the 60th anniversary of the publication of the paper describing the double-helix structure of DNA, researchers from Cambridge University reportedly have proven the existence of four-stranded “quadruple helix” DNA structures within the human genome. It was in 1953 that James D. Watson and Francis Crick, also of Cambridge University, published a paper which described the interweaving structure of the double-stranded molecules...
The latest issue of PS: Political Science & Politics (PS), published by Cambridge University Press, tackles threats facing the climate and the US higher education system, and recaps the accuracy of predictions for the 2012 presidential election published in the journal's final issue of 2012. Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 18, 2013 Experts from across the political science spectrum have contributed to the debate on all three issues, making for a lively and thought-provoking issue...
CAMBRIDGE, England and KINGSTON, Ontario, January 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Intel(R), Plastic Logic and Queen's University work together to revolutionize tablet computing Watch out tablet lovers - a flexible paper computer developed at Queen's University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs will revolutionize the way people work with tablets and computers. The PaperTab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A study from Cambridge University researchers shines new light on exactly how Salmonella spreads throughout a person's body -- work that could help medical experts overcome roadblocks in the development of vaccines and other forms of therapy to help combat the disease-causing bacteria. By analyzing salmonellae, which are typically found growing inside of immune system cells during an infection, the researchers discovered the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Machines rising up to enslave humanity and take over the world has been a popular theme in many science fiction works, but a new academic center in the works at Cambridge University will be dedicated to studying whether or not these kinds of potential technology-related threats could actually happen. According to Huffington Post reporter Sylvia Hui, the project, which has been dubbed the Center for the Study of Existential Risk...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Toshiba and Cambridge University have been working together to find a cheaper and more efficient way to protect networks from criminal thievery and spying. To find the answer, these two teams looked to quantum physics, landing on a solution which allows high-speed fiber cables to be just as secure as dedicated fiber optics lines. Though this advance will likely first appear in government and military networks, this method could one...
[ Watch the Video: Dog Has Spinal Cord Regeneration ] Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online More than just Man’s Best Friend, dogs also have incredible little wet noses. It’s widely believed that a dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times better than a humans, thanks to hundreds of millions of olfactory receptors. While the smelling sense of a dog has been widely reported and is very well known, the canine nose may be even more powerful than we once thought, even...
