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Biomimetic And Bioinspired Materials Enable New Healthcare Options, Reports Journal Of Biomedical Optics

Press Release | SPIE | September 30, 2014

The October issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics will include a special section on biomimetic materials and their applications in disease diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment and toxin detection. Several papers including a guest editorial are open access in the SPIE Digital Library, published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics...

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Facebook, Intel, And AMD Bring More Resources To Open Compute Project

Rachel King | ZDNet | January 16, 2013

Facebook, Intel, and AMD are just a few of the Silicon Valley heavyweights bringing more to the open hardware table for the Open Compute Project. Read More »

Nobel Laureates’ Publications Made Open Access In SPIE Digital Library

Press Release | SPIE | October 10, 2014

Nobel Prizes announced this week in Physics and Chemistry demonstrate photonics as a “powerful, enabling technology that drives innovation and discovery and stimulates new fields,” noted leaders of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The society is making research papers by the six recipients published in the SPIE Digital Library freely accessible through the end of 2014...

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Open Compute Summit: New Members, Technologies

Chris Talbot | Talkin' Cloud | January 18, 2013

The Open Compute Project, backed by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), is gaining momentum, as evidenced by the increasing attendance at the Open Compute Summit. [...] There has been a bit of buzz about some of the innovations unveiled at the show, and this can only mean good things for the open source cloud computing market. Read More »

Open Compute: Momentum Builds For Open Hardware

Rich Miller | Data Center Knowledge | January 16, 2013

Perhaps the best sign of the progress made by the Open Compute Project is that companies as diverse as Rackspace Hosting, Fidelity Investments and Goldman Sachs are all running servers based on these “open hardware” designs in their data centers. Read More »

Open Source Health Aims To Change The Course Of Women's Health With An "At-Home" Hormone Sensor

Press Release | Open Source Health | December 22, 2014

Open Source Health...is pleased to announce the development of an advanced "At- Home" device for measuring hormones through a simple finger-prick blood test. The hormone sensor will be priced around $200.00 and each "one-time use" bio-sensor chip will perform up to 5 tests at a cost of $50.00, providing significant cost savings to the healthcare system. This technology supports the trend whereby point of care is shifting from the clinic to the home.

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Photonics-led Consortium Leverages $3B in Private Cancer Research for Early Detection Technologies

Press Release | National Photonics Initiative | June 29, 2016

The National Photonics Initiative (NPI)...today unveiled a white paper and cancer technology road map that identifies the most promising existing and new technologies for increased and concerted private and public investment to achieve the goals of the National Cancer Moonshot – accelerate the early detection of cancer and save lives. 

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SPIE ‘Gold’ Open Access Program Meets New Needs Of UK Authors - And Others

Press Release | SPIE | April 23, 2013

An open access publishing program recently adopted by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, supports the needs of authors seeking open access publication, including authors affected by new rules adopted in the United Kingdom by the Research Councils UK (RCUK). Read More »