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ScrapWalls.com Makes It Easy to Create Custom Photo Collages

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Transforming a digital photo album into a unique and memorable collage just got a lot easier thanks to ScrapWalls.com, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based startup.

“We’re focused on making the site as easy and fun as possible”

ScrapWalls allows users to construct shape collages out of their digital photo galleries in seconds by simply uploading their pictures and selecting a template. With more than 25 templates to choose from — ranging from wedding cakes

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Compendia Bioscience Awarded $1.3 Million in SBIR Fast Track Funds

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Compendia Bioscience, Inc. today announced the award of $1.3 million in SBIR Fast Track funds to incorporate micro-RNA data and analyses into the Oncomine platform.

Cancer is a highly complex disease in which all of the causes and effects are not well understood. In recent years a new type of non-coding RNA molecule — micro-RNA — has been identified as an important contributor to cancer development, progression, and

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Biggest Business Plan Competition Offers Cash for Best Concepts

DETROIT—The Business Accelerator Network for Southeast Michigan, a new regionwide network for building and retaining new business, announced today the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, the world’s largest business plan competition.

The competition aims to uncover the best and brightest new business concepts from local and global entrepreneurs, exposing those opportunities to potential investment capital and fostering their growth within Michigan with more than $1 million in cash awards, plus in-kind awards of services, staffing and software.

The

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Accuri Cytometers Announces Launch of Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer System in Czech Republic

Ann Arbor, MI – August 24, 2010

Accuri Cytometers, Inc. and BioTech a.s. are pleased to announce the launch of the Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer system in Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary.

The two companies have signed an exclusive distribution agreement giving Czech, Slovak and Hungarian researchers access to Accuri’s products for the first time. BioTech a.s. is now responsible for the marketing, sales, support and technical service for Accuri Cytometers products in these countries.

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Michigan Students Create iPhone App to Provide Campus Information

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—When will the bus be here? What’s for dinner at East Quad? Where is Stamps Auditorium? Through a new University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus iPhone app, you can now have answers to these kinds of questions right in your pocket or purse.

The app, called University of Michigan in the iTunes store, is available free. It allows users to track buses in real time through the popular Magic Bus web application, check dining

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Mt. Gilead Fire Department Selects OnSite ERT to Increase On-Scene Firefighter Safety

Ann Arbor, MI (July 13, 2010) – It’s a problem every fire chief and safety officer knows all too well: how can you keep track of all of your responders throughout the incident? Is your haz-mat specialist on scene yet, and if so, where is she now? If there is an evacuation, how can you be sure that everyone made it out? When a firefighter becomes trapped, you have just minutes to rescue them, but

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