Yelo Ltd, the Carrickfergus-based technology company, has used Invest Northern Ireland trade missions to win new business in the US worth around £500,000.

The company specialises in the design and development of sophisticated automated test equipment for testing and measuring the performance of lasers, radar systems and electronic products.

The latest contracts are with high profile clients in San Francisco and San Jose and strengthen Yelo’s position in the US, the world’s biggest market for technology products and services.

University of Ulster scientist Dr Clifford Barnes has been named as the winner of a prestigious international science imaging competition.

The FEI Company, a leading supplier of microscopes and other tools for the nanoscience market, awarded Dr Barnes’s image ‘Spaghetti Junction’ the winning entry in the 2010 international scientific imaging competition.

The microscopic image of a rat Seminiferous Tubule, which is found in the rodent’s testes, was taken with a Quanta 200 Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope housed at Ulster’s Bioimaging facility at the Coleraine campus, and won Dr Barnes two round trip airline tickets to any destination in the world.

Scientists from the University of Ulster, QUB and the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital, Belfast are developing a high-tech mobile foetal surveillance system, which could help prevent stillbirth by alerting doctors when a baby’s life is at risk.

A stillbirth is when a baby dies in the womb or during delivery after 24 weeks of pregnancy – approximately 4,000 babies are stillborn each year in the UK. Many bereaved mothers say that in the days leading up to the stillbirth, the pattern of their baby’s movements seemed to decrease and the baby did not move around or kick as much as usual.

University of Ulster researchers are to develop a 3D model of breast tissue using human cells, to examine some of the potential causes of breast cancer.
 
The researchers at the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute received £360,000 funding from The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) to carry out the project, which will develop a model of human tissue to explore breast cancer,  rather than the current animal testing carried out. The 3D mammary gland model is based on pioneering work carried out by Professors Soto and Sonnenschein at Tufts University.

A University of Ulster scientist has been awarded a significant grant from the Royal Society to fund an international research project, which aims to provide a cost effective way of providing access to safe drinking water in isolated rural areas in India.

Dr Tony Byrne in the School of Engineering’s Nanotechnology and Integrated BioEngineering Centre is working in collaboration with Dr Rita Dhodapkar, National Environmental Engineering Centre, Nagpur in India to investigate how solar energy can be used to treat drinking water supplies.

“India receives an average of between 4 to 7 KWh/Day/square meter of solar energy.

Belfast 13 July 2010 - Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and modular spectroscopy solutions, announce the launch of its latest Spectroscopy Solutions Portfolio. Andor’s comprehensive offer now includes Microspectroscopy and scanning monochromator accessories, and complements Andor’s extensive range of high-end CCD, InGaAs, ICCD and EMCCD cameras, as well as Czerny-Turner and echelle spectrographs.

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Zurich 15 July 2010 – Bitplane, a world leading creator and supplier of 3D and 4D image processing, analysis and visualisation software, today announce the launch of their new Imaris 7.1 software. Imaris 7.

Leading eye research charity, Fight for Sight, has awarded over £157,000 to a research project led by the University of Ulster and the University of Dundee to develop a treatment for various forms of corneal dystrophy – a group of inherited disorders leading to constant irritation of the surface of the eye and progressive visual impairment.

The cornea is the outmost portion of the eye and protects the eye from the outside world.  It consists of five different transparent layers.

TWO OF Northern Ireland’s top biology students are preparing to travel to South Korea to compete in the 2010 International Biology Olympiad (IBO).

Step-Up students Liam O’Reilly (Christian Brothers Secondary School, Belfast) and Emma O’Deorain (St Cecilia’s College, Derry) won Gold Medals in the Northern Ireland Biology Olympiad Final, held at the University of Ulster.

Liam and Emma will be travelling to Changwon City to compete at the prestigious IBO, alongside team mates from the Republic of Ireland.

Belfast 23 June 2010 – Andor Technology has outperformed expectation as the recent Interim results demonstrate. An excellent start to the year confirms Andor’s position as a leading developer and manufacturer of high performance digital cameras for academic, industrial and government applications. Overall turnover was up 24% to £20 million, a reflection of the continued investment Andor makes to ensure the development of key markets.

Beijing 11 June 2010 - Andor Technology, UK has experienced continued growth within the Asian markets for their high performance light measuring solutions, and marked this by thanking distribution partners at their annual APAC distributor’s meeting, held at the Jingyi Hotel, Beijing, China. With over 30 attendees from across the region, the meeting covered promotion of the extensive Andor portfolio, as well as providing instrumentation demonstrations and offering a platform to exchange ideas and experiences.

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Belfast 10 June 2010 – A team of researchers in the USA has, for the first time, been able to demonstrate the feasibility of high-speed optical identification of individual converted DNA bases as they translocate through solid state nanopores with high temporal resolution (1000 frames per second).

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The state-of-the-art research facility, established within Queen’s University Belfast’s, (QUB) School of Mathematics and Physics, will focus on the development of advanced materials.

It was during discussions last year, regarding Invest Northern Ireland’s £12.

Belfast, 25 May 2010 – Andor Technology have made a generous donation of £4173.37 to their charity of the year, the NSPCC. A cheque was presented to NSPCC representative Ellen Hillen on Thursday 20 May.

Belfast 13 May 2010 – With the help of a highly sensitive Andor iXon+ EMCCD camera, US researchers have developed a super-resolution, 3D imaging technique that can resolve single fluorescent molecules with greater than 10 times more precision than conventional optical microscopy. By being able to locate molecules to within 12 – 20nm in all three axes, the researchers hope to be able to observe interactions between nanometer-scale intracellular structures previously too small to see.

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Stuttgart, PV Technology Show, 27 April 2010 – Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in low light imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems, today announced the launch of the iKon-M PV Inspector, a dedicated CCD camera that is designed to deliver market-leading speed and sensitivity performance for in-line electroluminescence and photoluminescence inspection of photovoltaic cells.

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Belfast, 21 April 2010 - A webinar explaining how white-light, spinning disk confocal microscopy can be used to great effect for high-resolution, cost-effective live-cell imaging is now available online. The webinar, produced by Andor Technology (Andor), also gives an overview of Imaris, the best 3D and 4D visualisation software available today.

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Andor (AND.L), the leading developer and manufacturer of high performance digital cameras for academic, industrial and government applications globally, is pleased to announce that on 14 April 2010 it acquired the trade and assets of Photonic for consideration comprising US$ 5.0 million (GBP £3.

Brussels, SPIE Photonics Europe, 13 April 2010 – Andor Technology PLC (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems, today announces that it will demonstrate its new flexible range of microspectroscopy solutions at the event on Stand 205. Combined with Andor’s world-leading CCD, ICCD and EMCCD cameras and spectrographs, the modular microspectroscopy set-ups allow a unique combination of ultra-fast yet highly sensitive microscopy imaging and spectroscopy.

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Belfast, Northern Ireland, 31 March 2010 – Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems, today announced the appointment of Buenos Aires, Argentina-based Microlat S.L.R.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, 10 March 2010 – Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems, today announced that they have joined the Image Acquisition Partner Program from MVTec, a Munich-based leading international manufacturer of standard software products for machine vision, after both companies successfully compiled an image acquisition interface between Andor’s highly sensitive, low-noise cameras and MVTec’s image processing library HALCON.

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Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1 March 2010 – Using a novel hybrid sensor system, which relies on Shamrock spectrometers and high performance intensified CCD detectors supplied by Andor Technology (Andor), Spanish scientists have been able to use both Raman and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) simultaneously for the instant, remote standoff analysis of explosive materials.

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San Francisco, USA, Biophysical Society 54th Annual Meeting, 21 February 2010 - For the first time, high performance confocal microscopy can now be achieved using a white light source. This follows the launch today by Andor Technology of Revolution® DSD, a new fully integrated system based on a unique, Differential Spinning Disk optical system working in conjunction with an Andor Clara high sensitivity, Interline CCD camera and controlled by an IQ work station.

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