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• Detection of Chemical and Biological Weapons at long Distances
  A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and in sensors to detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scient...
• Romer Labs® introduces rapid and chromatographic analytical methods for melamine
  Romer Labs® highlights its expertise in food- and feed safety analysis and proudly introduces new validations for its AgraQuant® Melamine ELISA. The test kit has been proven to be a reliable screen...
• QIAGEN and Chinese Academy of Sciences Form Collaboration for Development of New Molecular Food Safety Tests
  QIAGEN and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced a collaboration to develop new molecular testing solutions to improve the safety of food products. The CAS/SIBS-QIAGEN Collaboration for F...
• JRC-IRMM and NIST strengthen their collaboration
  On the 4th and 5th September the IRMM welcomed leading US scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In the latest of a series of biennial coordination meetings, the...
• DIREVO Biotech Acquired by Bayer HealthCare
  DIREVO Biotech AG announced today its acquisition by Bayer HealthCare in an all cash deal at a transaction value of €210 Million (approx. $300 Million). DIREVO Industrial Biotechnology GmbH, a whol...
• Predict HILIC Retention On-line
  Now you can easily predict chromatographic retention (k) on Merck SeQuant ZIC®-HILIC columns using only the molecular structure of your compound as input data. With this new free on-line tool, you ...
• Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2008 Goes to the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin
  A Berlin research team led by Professor Erich E. Wanker of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has been awarded this year's Erwin Schrödinger Prize for creati...
• Open Access contract with Public Library of Science
  In accordance with its commitment to ensure public availability of its research out-put, the Max Planck Society (MPS) has reached an agreement with the Public Li-brary of Science (PLoS) for the cen...
• Pesticide EU-MRLs Database
  New rules on pesticide residues are applicable as from 1 September 2008 in the EU. The new rules set fully harmonised Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) of pesticides.A newly developed database can be c...
• Büchi opens new sales office in Vienna, Austria
  Büchi celebrates the opening of a new sales office in Vienna, Austria and will start to deliver and service their products directly. Ideal conditions will thereby be established in order to ensure ...