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• Healthcare Lifetime Data Repository Infrastructure
  3M Company
  
• ATP Projects Aid Disease Studies
  3rd Millennium, In
  
• New Source of Therapeutic Cells May Reduce Cancer Costs, Recurrence
  Aastrom Biosciences, Inc.
  
• Radiology Tools Enhance Care
  Advanced Technology Institute
  
• Tool Kit Builds 3-D Worlds
  Aesthetic Solutions
  
• "DNA Chips" and Tiny Tubes Make Genetic Studies Practical
  Affymetrix, Inc.
  
• Hyperthermophilic Microorganisms in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
  Amersham Pharmacia Biotech
  
• Precision Assembly Process Improves Vehicle Quality and Reduces Cost
  Auto Body Consortium, Inc.
  
• Voyager: Browsing and Automatically Extracting Healthcare Data from Scattered Databases
  Belmont Research, Inc.
  
• Intelligent, Spoken Multi-media Electronic Patient Medical Records
  Berdy Medical Systems, Inc.
  
• Development of Multi-Photon Detection Technique and Its Application to Environmental and Biomedical Diagnostics
  BioTraces, Inc.
  
• ATP Partnership: World’s First Corn-to-Plastics Plant Opens
  Cargill Dow LLC
  
• Project on Corn-Derived Polymers Wins R&D Award
  Cargill Dow LLC
  
• Processes for Growing Large, Single Silicon Carbide Crystals
  Cree Research, Inc.
  
• Adaptive Video Codec for Information Networks
  Cubic Videocomm, Inc.
  
• Proteins Assume Top Role in New Disease-Fighting Tools
  CuraGen Corporation
  
• 3-D Matrix Makes Immune Cells
  Cytomatrix and Massachusetts General Hospital
  
• Building Bigger and Better Semiconductor Wafers
  Diamond Semiconductor Group, Inc.
  
• Project in Integrated Optoelectronic Manufacturing a Success
  Digital Optics Corporation
  
• Infrastructure Made of Composites Nearly a Cost-Saving Reality
  Ebert Composites Corp
  
• Development of Blue/Green Emitters Utilizing Homoepitaxial ZnSe-Based Heterostructures
  Eagle-Picher Research Laboratories
  
• New Optical Method of Aligning Liquid Crystals Expected to Reduce Display Costs
  Elsicon, Inc.
  
• Solar Energy Home Runs on Ribbons
  Evergreen Solar, Inc.
  
• Making Car Engines the 21st-Century Way
  Extrude Hone Corp.
  
• Cooperative Research Brightens Future of Fiber-Optic Networks
  Genoa Corporation
  
• Rapid DNA Sequencer Expected to Foster Drug Discovery and Reduce
  Testing Costs
  GeneTrace Systems, Inc.
  
• ATP Partner Thinks Big by Going Small with Nanotech Material
  Hybrid Plastics, Inc.
  
• New Software May Control the Future of Semiconductor Industry
  Honeywell, Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices
  
• Composite Pipes Carry Oil and Gas
  Hydril Co.
  
• Thick-Film Superconducting Materials for Radiofrequency Communications
  Illinois Superconductor Corp.
  
• Virtual Reality Outperforms Reality in Medical Training
  Immersion Medical, Inc. (formerly HT Medical Systems, Inc.)
  
• Infigen Announces the Birth of Genetically Modified Miniature Swine for Potential Use as Organ Donors for Humans
  Infigen, Inc. and Immerge BioTherapeutics, Inc. (formerly Bio Transplant, Inc.)
• Award-Winning ATP Project Helps Manufacturers Get a Grip
  Lamb Technicon (a UNOVA Company)
  
• Tunable Deep UV and VUV Solid-State Laser Source
  Light Age, Inc.
  
• Solder Jet Technology Development
  MicroFab Technologies Inc.
  
• Powerful Prototype Spindles Boost Machine Tool Performance
  National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Inc.
  
• Magnetoresistive Technologies Attract a Growing Audience
  Nonvolatile Electronics, Inc.
  
• ‘Double Knock-Out’ Pigs Score TKO for ATP Project
  PPL Therapeutics, Inc.
  
• Outlook for "Smart" Windows Appears Better than Ever
  SAGE Electrochromics, Inc.
  
• Taking the High Cost Out of High-Definition Television Broadcasting
  Sarnoff Corporation
  
• Automatic Generation of Mathematical Modeling Components
  SciComp, Inc.
  
• Composite Beams Designed to Enhance Bridge Durability and Reduce Life-Cycle Costs
  Strongwell Corporation [View NIST Update Newsletter, December 17, 2001]
  
• “Black Box” Enhances Medical Decision Making
  Sunquest Information Systems
  
• Near-Ideal Insulator Promises Much Faster Integrated Circuits
  Texas Instruments, Inc.
  
• 'Bar Code' Diagnostic Method Analyzes DNA Structure, Not Sequence
  Third Wave Technologies, Inc.
  
• Component-Based Software System for Parallel Processing Systems
  Torrent Systems, Inc.
  
• An Expert Knowledge Server with a General Vocabulary Interface
  Utah Health Informatics
  
• Reducing Medical Costs by the Book—Electronically
  Vital Works (formerly Datamedic Corp.)
  
• Flexible “Middleware” Takes Systems Integration to New Heights
  Vitria Technology, Inc.
  
• X-Ray and Neutron Focusing and Collimating Optics
  X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc.

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Date Created: June 1996
Last Update: June 23, 2003