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- Dionex and IESE Collaborate on Biodiesel Methods
Dionex Corporation has entered a collaborative agreement with the Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE) to analyze jatropha oil in the development of biodiesel. A major goal of... - PANalytical and Malvern celebrate US office opening
On 23 May 2008, the PANalytical and Malvern Instruments US teams celebrated the opening of their new headquarters. The sister companies now share state of the art facilities in Westborough, MA. G... - Waters Receives Excellence Award for Global Services Delivery and Technical Support
Waters Corporation announced its Waters Division received a 2008 ACE Award for achievement in customer excellence. The award is given by independent survey firm CustomerSAT in recognition of high c... - Thermo Fisher Scientific Receives Scientific Computing 2008 Readers' Choice Awards
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced that five of its informatics and software solutions have received Scientific Computing 2008 Readers' Choice Awards across four categories: LIMS, bioinfo... - Electron Microscopy Enters the Picometre Scale
Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out de... - Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld
A novel super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high sp... - Waters is a Worldwide Distributor of YMC HPLC Columns
Waters has established worldwide distribution of the YMC™ HPLC analytical and preparative column lines, a highly respected series of products that Waters has distributed since 1997. There are 27 di... - Agilent Expands Particle Size Measurement Portfolio by Acquiring Particle Sizing Systems
Agilent Technologies announced it has acquired Particle Sizing Systems, a privately held company that designs and manufactures instruments that measure the particle size and stability in materials ... - Analytik Jena and Fisher Scientific conclude a marketing and sales agreement
The products of the bio solutions division of Analytik Jena AG will in future be marketed and sold in the Federal Republic of Germany through the extensive Fisher Scientific laboratory equipment ch... - Thermo Fisher Scientific Instruments Analyze Samples on Mars
Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the progress of the Thermo Scientific Orion 229918 sensor assembly that is part of the Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA) instrument us... - WITec Microscope Technology Wins Prestigious 2008 R&D 100 Award
WITec microscope technology has been selected as a winner of the prestigious 2008 R&D 100 Award. It honors the automated Confocal Raman and Atomic Force Microscope combination alpha500 as one of th... - PDF format becomes ISO standard
The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a ... - Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Open Biosystems, Creating Unmatched RNAi Platform
Thermo Fisher Scientific announced that it has acquired Open Biosystems, Inc., a provider of RNA interference (RNAi), gene expression and protein detection products for life science research and dr... - PerkinElmer Receives 2008 Life Science Industry Award for Achievement in High Throughput Screening
PerkinElmer announced that it has received top honors in the Life Science Industry Awards for High Throughput Screening (HTS) and Analysis Systems. For the second consecutive year, the Company was ... - Certified matrix reference material for mycotoxin analysis
IRMM has released for distribution a certified matrix reference material for mycotoxin analysis: aflatoxins in peanut meal (BCR-263R). Aflatoxins are naturally occurring contaminants in food and fe... - Pocket-sized magnetic resonance imaging
The term "MRI scan" brings to mind the gigantic, expensive machines that are installed in hospitals. But research scientists have now developed small portable MRI scanners that perform their servic... - New EPA Method 314.2: Two-Dimensional Ion Chromatography for Trace Perchlorate in Drinking Water
The US EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water has drafted a new method for the determination of perchlorate using two-dimensional (2-D) ion chromatography and matrix elimination. Jointly dev... - Agilent Acquires Nano Instruments Business of MTS Systems
Agilent Technologies announced that it has acquired the Nano Instruments business unit of MTS Systems Corp. The acquisition will strengthen Agilent's portfolio of instrumentation for imaging, chara... - Invitrogen and BioTek Instruments Announce Strategic Collaboration
Invitrogen Corporation, a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, and BioTek Instruments, Inc., a leader in microplate instrumentation technology, ... - QIAGEN Acquires Corbett Life Science
QIAGEN N.V. announced that it has acquired Corbett Life Science Pty. Ltd. (Corbett), a privately-held developer, manufacturer, and distributor of life sciences instrumentation headquartered in Sydn... - MDS Analytical Technologies Acquires Blueshift Biotechnologies
MDS Analytical Technologies, a leader in innovative solutions for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced it has acquired California-based Blueshift Biotechnologies (Sunnyvale, C... - Nysa Announces Company Name Change to Natrix Separations, Inc.
Natrix Separations, Inc., a supplier of high performance, single use and multi-cycle disposable chromatography products, announced today the company's new name and launched a family of lab scale ch... - Leica Microsystems' Life Science Division Reorganizes
With three newly defined Strategic Business Units, a new Managing Director and an expanded product portfolio, the Life Science Division of Leica Microsystems is reinforcing its world market positio...