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• Expansion of Analytical Imaging team: Malvern appoints new product manager
  Malvern Instruments has appointed Ulf Willen to the position of product manager for the company's morphological imaging systems, part of the company's recently formed Analytical Imaging Systems gro...
• Varian to Build New World-Class Information Rich Detection Center in Walnut Creek, California
  Varian, Inc. announced plans to build a world-class Information Rich Detection (IRD) center to optimize the development and assembly of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry produc...
• Asymmetry due to Perfect Balance: Mathematical model allows elucidation of universal principles in cell polarity
  Cell membranes are like two-dimensional fluids whose molecules are distributed evenly through lateral diffusion. But many important cellular processes depend on cortical polarity, the locally eleva...
• Rentschler Opens US Sales Office
  Rentschler Biotechnologie GmbH, a full-service biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing organization (CMO) with over 30 years of experience, announced the opening of a US-based sales office in New ...
• Spring 2007 edition of CAMAG Bibliography Service for TLC available - new website of CAMAG Laboratory
  The new CAMAG Bibliography Service CBS 98 with over 100 abstracts of recent publications, demonstrating the flexibility of Thin-Layer Chromatography, has been released.CBS 98 puts emphasis on Plana...
• Waters Corporation to Assist US EPA in the Analysis of Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs) in Soil and Water
  Waters Corporation announced it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Exposure Research Laboratory...
• Everything starts with Recognition: Scientists track at the atomic scale how individual molecules recognise each other
  A human body has more than 10 to the power of 27 molecules with about one hundred thousand different shapes and functions. Interactions between molecules determine our structure and keep us alive. ...
• BASF launches innovation podcast
  BASF is launching with immediate effect a podcast service for science- and research-based innovation topics. Two services will be available, in English and German, on BASF's website: the monthly se...
• New European Reference Material for the analysis of sulphur in petrol available
  Atmospheric sulfur oxides are the main source of acid rain, which causes significant damage to buildings as well as to the environment. Therefore, such emissions have been regulated in many countri...
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Sale of Genevac
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of its Genevac business, a manufacturer of vacuum concentrators, to private equity firm Riverlake Equity Partners, LP. Riverla...
• Agilent Technologies Signs Agreement to Acquire Stratagene Corp., a Developer of Life Science Research and Diagnostic Products
  Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Stratagene Corp. to acquire the developer, manufacturer and marketer of specialized life science research and diag...
• Agilent Technologies Announces Creation of New Business Unit in Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis
  Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the creation of a Materials Sciences Solutions Unit (MSSU) within its Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis business (LSCA). Michael C. Gasparian has been named vi...
• Strategic partnership with BRAIN and AnalytiCon Discovery
  Symrise GmbH & Co. KG has entered into another strategic alliance in the biotechnology sector. The partnership with the leading biotech specialists BRAIN AG and AnalytiCon Discovery GmbH allows Sym...
• Laser Goes Tubing for Faster Body-Fluid Tests
  University of Rochester researchers announce in the current issue of Applied Optics a technique that in 60 seconds or less measures multiple chemicals in body fluids, using a laser, white light, an...
• PerkinElmer Acquires Improvision Ltd.
  PerkinElmer, Inc. announced that it has acquired Improvision Ltd. in a cash transaction. Based in Coventry, United Kingdom, Improvision is a leading provider of cellular imaging software and integr...
• Paper on new measurement standards for BSE tests published
  More than 11 million rapid BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy i.e. the mad cow disease) tests are carried out annually in hundreds of laboratories in the European Union. In the EU, the performan...
• New sensor detects gaseous chemical weapon surrogates in 45 seconds
  Using lasers and tuning forks, researchers at PNNL have developed a chemical weapon agent sensing technique that promises to meet or exceed current and emerging defense and homeland security chemic...
• VWR Acquires Remaining Stake in KMF LABORCHEMIE HANDELS GmbH
  VWR International, Inc. announced that it has acquired the remaining approximately 76% interest in KMF Laborchemie Handels GmbH (KMF) effective April 1, 2007, a German-based scientific laboratory s...