1. Altar is a company leader in the field of automated microbial fluidics

2. • ®Attune Shutdown Solution – is a 10X solution that prevents bubble formation in the fluidics system of the instrument

3. • Attune® Wash Solution – is a ready-to-use solution for removing cellular debris and dyes from the fluidics system of the instrument

4. 28 The Fund has made a seed investment in Sphere Fluidics, which was formed earlier this month by Profs Chris Abell and Wilhelm Huck of Cambridge University’s Department of Chemistry.

5. Comprehensive Microsystems, is a new 3-volume reference work on Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS).The microsystems field has expanded to embrace a host of technologies, and microelectronics has now been joined by micro-mechanics, micro-fluidics and micro-optics to allow the fabrication of complex, multi- functional integrated microsystems.