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• Max Planck Innovation Concludes Licensing Agreement for Technology Providing Unlimited Resolution in Microscopy
  Max Planck Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer agency of the Max Planck Society, Germany's leading basic research organization, has signed a co-exclusive license agreement with Leica Microsyst...
• New NIST Reference Material for Peptide Analysis
  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first-ever reference material designed to improve the performance and reliability of experiments to measure the masses and c...
• DataApex appoints Gallery Science as Premium Partner
  DataApex announces that Gallery Science has been appointed as the Premium Partner for the North America and Caribbean Islands. Gallery Science will act as a wholesaler to other distribution channel...
• Whatman and QIAGEN Announce Distribution Agreement for FTA Products
  QIAGEN, the worldwide leading provider of sample and assay technologies for research in life sciences, applied testing and molecular diagnostics and Whatman, a global leader in separation and life ...
• L.A.B. Trade fair and conference for analysis, bio and laboratory equipment in the UK from October 2-4 2007 in London
  Leipziger Messe, organiser of L.A.B. - the European trade fair and conference devoted to analysis, bio and laboratory equipment - announces that over 80% of booth space in the new exhibition has al...
• Alzheimer's disease - A groundbreaking approach
  In clinical research the influence of certain metal cofactors (e.g, iron, copper, zinc, and manganese) on Alzheimer's disease and other protein-misfolding diseases (e.g., Amyotrophic Lateral Sclero...
• NMR advance relies on microscopic detector
  Detecting the molecular structure of a tiny protein using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) currently requires two things: a million-dollar machine the size of a massive SUV, and a large sample of t...
• Magnetic Computer Sensors May Help Study Biomolecules
  Magnetic switches like those in computers also might be used to manipulate individual strands of DNA for high-speed applications such as gene sequencing, experiments at the National Institute of St...
• Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Molecular Medicine BioServices to Expand SAFC Pharma Capabilities
  Sigma-Aldrich Corporation announced that it has acquired Molecular Medicine BioServices Inc. (MMB), a biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing organization (CMO) located in Carlsbad, California, to...
• Perten Instruments and Newport Scientific announce distribution agreement for the Nordic countries
  Newport Scientific Pty. Ltd. and Perten Instruments AB are pleased to announce that Perten Instruments will be the exclusive distributor of Newport Scientific in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway...
• Millipore and Gen-Probe Expand Collaboration
  Millipore Corporation and Gen-Probe announced at the BIO 2007 International Convention that Millipore will market and sell Gen-Probe's Mycoplasma Tissue Culture Non-Isotopic (MTC-NI) test to its bi...
• Agilent Debuts RNA Integrity Database for Free Sharing of RNA Profiles
  Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that its unique RNA Integrity Database is now online and accessible to the genomics community free of charge. Because RNA quality-control criteria are defined ex...
• Lab-on-a-Chip Device from Berkeley Lab to Speed Proteomics Research
  In recent years, the science of biology has been dominated by genomics - the study of genes and their functions. The genomics era is now making way for the era of proteomics - the study of the prot...
• Beckman Coulter and Biosite Amend Definitive Acquisition Agreement
  Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC) announced last night that it has entered into a revised merger agreement with Biosite, Inc. (NASDAQ:BSTE). Under the terms of the revised merger agreement, Beckman...
• VWR to be acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners
  VWR International, Inc., a portfolio company of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (CD&R) and a leader in the global laboratory supply industry, today announced that CDRV Investors, Inc., its parent co...
• New test eliminates need for skin irritancy tests on rabbits
  The Scientific Advisory Committee of European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) has today announced the validation of five new "in-vitro" tests, which take an important step ...
• Gold Nanoparticles Help Detect a Toxic Metal: Mercury
  With gold nanoparticles, DNA and some smart chemistry as their tools, scientists at Northwestern have developed a simple "litmus test" for mercury that eventually could be used for on-the-spot envi...
• PerkinElmer Opens New Corporate Headquarters and Technology Center
  PerkinElmer, Inc., a global technology leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, celebrated the grand opening of its new corporate headquarters and technology center in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 1...