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• Thermo Scientific Nicolet iN10 MX FT-IR Microscope Wins R&D 100 Award
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that its Thermo Scientific Nicolet iN10 MX FT-IR microscope has been selected as an R&D 100 award winner by an independent judging panel and editors of R&D M...
• Agilent Technologies to Acquire Varian, Inc. for 1.5 Billion Dollar
  Agilent Technologies Inc. and Varian Inc. announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition by Agilent of Varian, a leading worldwide supplier of scientific instrumentation...
• Exactly Nano - Reference materials for nanotechnologies
  Nanotechnologies stand at the threshold to industrial use. Standards help convert innovations into marketable products. BAM intensively supports the international standardization for nanotechnologi...
• Thermo Fisher and NETZSCH Announce Sales Cooperation Agreement
  Thermo Fisher Scientific and NETZSCH-Gerätebau GmbH, a major supplier of thermoanalytical and thermophysical instruments, today announced a sales cooperation agreement in the field of thermal analy...
• Contaminated sunflower oil: testing labs measure up
  Following the discovery of contaminated sunflower oil imported from Ukraine (April 2008), the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has tested 55 analytical laboratories from 17 EU Memb...
• Metrological Traceability of Measurement Results in Chemistry: Concepts and Implementation
  This IUPAC study aims at formulating recommendations concerning the metrological traceability of a measurement result in chemistry. It is intended to provide the chemical measurement community with...
• Introducing Scientifically Speaking - A Microplate Instrumentation Blog by BioTek Scientists
  BioTek Instruments has long been a global authority on microplate instrumentation, and now they're reaching out to the online community through their new blog, Scientifically Speaking. Managed by B...
• New Array-Based Resequencing Approach Deepens Information Content, Speeds Next-Generation Sequencing
  A group of researchers from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) have developed a technique that complements massively parallel next-generation DNA seque...
• Physicists make electron gas visible
  X-rays can be used to image hidden structures such as bones of the human body. But now, a team of Würzburg physicists has succeeded in demonstrating the electronic structure of an interface in a so...
• AOAC validates Merck tests to detect Salmonella in peanut butter products
  Merck announced today that the AOAC Research Institute has validated two of its products for the detection of Salmonella in peanut butter products within the scope of its Emergency Response Validat...
• Ocean Optics Jaz Spectrometer Tops Mount Everest
  Ocean Optics, the industry leader in miniature spectroscopy, recently provided a Jaz Modular Sensing Suite to the trek crew of Return to Everest 2009 - a crew including Keith Cowing, Miles O'Brien,...
• Interlaboratory comparisons - towards global chemical safety
  Explosion in a chemical plant, fire on a dangerous goods freighter... the causes may be many. Prevention however, starts with testing the hazardous properties of the chemicals in the test laborator...