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Brighter future looms for Kannapolis where biotech is replacing textiles
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – Just five years after Pillotex shut down a massive textile plant and threw 4,800 people out of work, the site where the largest mass layoff in North Carolina history will soon be humming again.
However, the hum will be from computers and other technology, not looms.
The North Carolina Research Center will formally open its doors later this summer when the massive yet beautiful 300,000 square foot main building opens. Soon thereafter two smaller but certainly impressive...
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Cable companies to ramp up Web, HD, mobile service
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On-demand ticketing software eTix lands $1M from Southern Capitol Ventures
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Duke University News Service
UniversityTech: Attacking a protein could make melanoma tumors vulnerable to chemotherapy.
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Vodafone deal shows social networking is going mobile
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Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era
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Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds - that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
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Federal government picks NCSU experts to explain nanotechnology risks
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