SAN JOSE, California, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Facilitates Low-cost, Easy Evaluation of CAP Capabilities

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced its AT91CAP7A-STK Starter Kit for the evaluation of its ARM7(TM)-based CAP(TM) family of customizable microcontrollers. CAP7 customizable MCUs allow designers to migrate ARM7-plus-FPGA designs to a low-NRE, single-chip solution with approximately 30% lower unit costs, with eight times better performance, 98% less static power consumption, and 70% less active power consumption.

CAMBRIDGE, England, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- ("Stem Cell Sciences", "SCS", "the Company")

Stem Cell Sciences plc (AIM:STEM, ASX:STC), a company focused on the commercialisation of stem cells and stem cell technologies, is pleased to announce that two independent laboratories in the UK and USA have achieved germ-line transmission from embryonic stem (ES) cells in rats using technologies exclusively licensed to the company by Edinburgh University. This is believed to be the first time that germ-line transmission from rat ES cells has been demonstrated, and full scientific reports on this breakthrough, which has been independently verified, have been submitted to a major scientific journal for publication.

A new age for air travel is dawning; at least if you’re one of the lucky few in the market for supersonic luxury travel. Lockheed Martin's advanced Skunk Works unit is designing a small, 12-seat passenger jet that would travel at 1,200 mph (Mach 1.8) but which would produce only a whisper of the annoying crack once emitted by the retired Concorde.

Aimed at business executives and diplomats, the QSST will fly at nearly twice the speed of conventional business jets and have a range of 4,600 miles nonstop -- Los Angeles to New York in just over two hours. The sleek, 130-foot-long QSST (for "quiet supersonic transport") aircraft is being designed for a Nevada consortium called Supersonic Aerospace International, or SAI, at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion. According to the company, it could be ready for boarding by 2013.

It seems that this is a technology that is long overdue, and it may seem curious that domestic supersonic travel doesn’t already exist. But it’s been the pesky sonic boom that accompanies supersonic flight that has prevented development in this area -- until now.

ROSH-HA'AYIN, Israel, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Kornit Digital, a leading-edge company that develops, manufactures and markets industrial high-speed digital inkjet printers, superior pigmented ink and unique chemistry solutions for the garment & apparel decorating industry, today announced the company's expansion to its new 20,000 square-foot high-tech facility.

The relocation was prompted by Kornit Digital's need for more office and R&D space, as part of the company's extensive growth in its worldwide installed base, its support network and in its existing and new products research & development venture. Located at Rosh-Ha'Ayin, Israel, the new facility includes 1,200 square-foot of office space and an 8,000 square-foot of R&D work area and labs.

MOSCOW, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- ISDEF'2008, the Seventh Fall Conference, Will Take Place on September 26-28 and Will Focus on the Analysis of the Present-Time Situation on the Software Market and the Business Challenges that IT Companies Face Today

REDWOOD CITY, California, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today announced a multi-year agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) for use of the Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (IPA) software application. Bristol-Myers Squibb will continue to leverage IPA for the interpretation, modeling, and visualization of genomics and proteomics data to identify key biological insights to accelerate their drug discovery programs.

SAN MATEO, California and LEEDS, England, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Evaxyx Siperian Services Framework Scales Critical Data Assets across Departments, Divisions, and Geographies for Greater Enterprise-Wide Decision Making

A man's height is a marker for risk of prostate cancer development but is more strongly linked to progression of the cancer, say a group of British researchers who conducted their own study and also reviewed 58 other published studies.

In the September issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 12 researchers at four universities in England who studied more than 9,000 men with and without prostate cancer estimated that the risk of developing the disease rises by about six percent for every 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) in height a man is over the shortest group of men in the study.

That means a man who is one foot taller than the shortest person in the study would have a 19 percent increased risk of developing the disease.

Seriously.

Researchers using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, titanium and silicon, have grown wires into a two-dimensional network of branches that resemble flat, rectangular netting, Boston College assistant professor of chemistry Dunwei Wang and his team report in the international edition of the German Chemical Society journal Angewandte Chemie.

By creating nanonets, the team conquered a longstanding engineering challenge in nanotechnology: creating a material that is extremely thin yet maintains its complexity, a structural design large or long enough to efficiently transfer an electrical charge.