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• Nanion's Technology Nominated for Presidential Innovation Award
  The planar patch clamp technology used in a family of automated electrophysiology products developed and marketed by Nanion Technologies GmbH in Munich, Germany, is among four technological and sci...
• Tecan and Atoll combine their platforms to create automated parallel chromatography systems for high throughput bioprocess development
  Tecan and Atoll have successfully integrated Atoll's MediaScout® 96-array RoboColumn system with the Tecan Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstation to allow fully automated bioprocess parameter scr...
• ALPHA FT-IR wins IBO Analytical Instrument Industrial Design Gold Award
  Instrument Business Outlook (IBO) announced ALPHA FT-IR spectrometer as the winners of the fourteenth annual IBO Design Award for excellence in the industrial design of analytical instruments. IBO ...
• Mobile plant enables smooth repair of water treatment
  The chemicals concern Clariant, headquartered in Muttenz, near Basel, depends on trouble-free flows of its heating operation, which among other things takes care of the disposal of production resid...
• Scientists uncover how hormones achieve their effects
  New insights into the cellular signal chain through which pheromones stimulate mating in yeast have been gained by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL]. Similar signal cha...
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Selected by China Doping Control Center to Supply Sports Doping Testing Instrumentation at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the China Doping Control Center (CDCC) has selected Thermo Scientific instruments and software for its sport...
• Gerhard Ertl wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  "The Max Planck researcher has succeeded in providing a detailed description of how chemical reactions take place on solid surfaces," said the Swedish Academy of Sciences today in Stockholm in a st...
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Leader in Micro-Volume Spectrophotometers, NanoDrop Technologies
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced it has acquired NanoDrop Technologies, LLC, a leading manufacturer of micro-volume ultraviolet visible (UV-Vis) instrumentation. The acquisition will strengt...
• Sigma-Aldrich and the Universite de Montreal Establish Collaboration for RNA Interference Studies
  Sigma-Aldrich has entered into a collaboration with the Institute of Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Universite de Montreal. This collaboration, made possible through grants from Ge...
• Head of Development at Analytik Jena receives award for services to science
  Dr Gerhard Schlemmer was awarded the 2007 Jerzy Fijalkowski prize at the international spectroscopist meeting held in Ustron (Poland). The prize was awarded by the Polish Spectroscopic Society (PAN...
• Opening Day of L.A.B. Attracts World-Class Industry Leaders
  Leipziger Messe, organiser of L.A.B. - the trade fair and conference devoted to analysis, bio and laboratory equipment - announces a highly successful opening day of the inaugural event on 2 Octobe...
• nexttec and Bio&Sell enter into sales and distribution agreement
  nexttec GmbH, inventor and manufacturer of the world's fastest nucleic acid purification kits, has entered into an agreement with Bio&Sell (Nürnberg, Germany) to sell and distribute its one-step DN...
• Bionas Signs Service Contract with Solvay Pharmaceuticals
  Bionas GmbH, a specialist for in vitro profiling of cellular metabolic activity, announced that it has signed a service contract with Solvay Pharmaceuticals GmbH (Hannover, Germany). The contract c...
• PerkinElmer to Expand Genetic Screening Business Through Acquisition of ViaCell
  PerkinElmer, Inc., a global technology leader in Health Sciences, and ViaCell, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAC), a biotechnology company specializing in the collection and preservation of umbilical cord blood s...