Latest News 2008/12

Latest news from laboratory, environment, chemistry, life science and quality control

Waters Acquires Analytical Products Group
Waters Corporation announced that it has completed the purchase of the net assets of Analytical Products Group, Inc. (APG) of Belpre, Ohio, for an undisclosed amount. Waters(R) will immediately mer...
Production line for artificial skin
A fully automated process is set to improve the production of artificial tissue: medical scientists can perform transplants with skin produced in the laboratory. This tissue is also suitable for te...
Particulate emissions from laser printers
Do laser printers emit pathogenic toner particles into the air? Some people are convinced that they do. As a result, this topic is the subject of public controversy. Researchers have now investigat...
Leica Microsystems to Become Founder Partner of EMBL Advanced Training Centre
Microscope designer Leica Microsystems and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] signed a corporate partnership agreement today whereby Leica Microsystems becomes a founder partner of th...
Laser Ablation Specialist Wins European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry 2009
The winner of the fourth European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry is Dr. Annemie Bogaerts, professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, as announced by the independent a...
Ship in a bottle assembly of microfluidic devices
Sometimes physicists resort to tried and trusted model-making tricks. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, the University of Stuttgart and the Colorado School of Mines have c...