Dolomite, microfluidic designer and manufacturer, expanded its range of temperature control systems with the Hotplate Adaptor - Chip Holder H, which allows control over internal temperatures of microfluidic chips without any disruptions to the fluid flow.

Helios Crew Corporation (HCC) Taiwan released its LED product S35, a packaged component LED that integrates MEMS with semiconductor processing to produce a unique silicon packaging technology.

E M Optomechanical Inc. (EMOpto) developed a new low-cost version of its OPTOPro line of 3D MEMS Optical Profilers for use in testing and characterizing MEMS devices. The OPTOPro Model 622-Xe enables capital equipment purchase at less than $20K.

The University of Michigan College of Engineering will present Packaging for MEMS March 31 to April 1, 2011, in Boston, MA. MEMS packaging is a significant part of product cost. This program highlights what to consider in developing application-specific packaging that will meet your goals for product performance, durability, and total cost.

A North Carolina State University endowment fund established to bridge pure research and product commercialization for entrepreneurs has awarded a $10k grant to a biomedical engineering project that will use MEMS to make catheters flexible, then stiff, for stent delivery.

Panasonic Corp. and Seiko Epson Corp. are leading Japanese companies' resurgence in the MEMS market. Japanese firms were global leaders back in the 1990s, making such parts as sensors for car airbags. But the 2000s saw major U.S. and European semiconductor companies enter the field, grabbing market share by making massive capital investments and sharply boosting production efficiency.

The University of South Florida received $5.45 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create advanced devices that mimic the human liver to better study the life cycle of the malaria parasite, and to develop effective therapies for the disease.

Fluidigm Corporation priced its initial public offering (IPO) under the symbol FLDM. Fluidigm develops, manufactures, and markets microfluidic systems comprising instruments and consumables, including chips and reagents.

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and bTendo Ltd. will jointly develop the world's smallest pico projector for smart phones and other portable consumer-electronics devices, based on bTendo's Scanning Laser Projection engine technology and ST's MEMS, video processing, and semiconductor process technology expertise.