Join NMBio, NMITSA, NMOIA for the annual Holiday Networking Event at Hotel Albuquerque. Join your friends, peers and members of the technology community for this superb and always much anticipated event. Last year’’s event was a near sellout! Be sure to reserve your tickets early. Once again, there will be great door prizes, in addition to fantastic food, fun and good contacts. Join us on December 11th, at Hotel Albuquerque from 5:30 to 7pm. Cost is $20 before December 1st, click here to register

Friday, September 28, 2007 - East Bay Business Times - by Michael Fitzhugh Sandia National Laboratories, Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth won a $3.2 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a biotoxin test they are developing. The goal is to design a small, portable and easy-to-use instrument to detect signs of such toxins in blood. Similar tests are done in medical facilities and can take days or weeks. (read complete article here).