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• GATC subsidiary LifeCodexx AG develops tests for prenatal diagnostics
  LifeCodexx AG has started operational research and development work on clinically validated diagnostic tests by using Next Generation Sequencing technologies. The work currently focuses on the fiel...
• Substance in breast milk kills cancer cells
  A substance found in breast milk can kill cancer cells, reveal studies carried out by researchers at Lund University and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Although the special substance, known a...
• PerkinElmer Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC
  PerkinElmer, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC (Signature), a diagnostic genetic testing company based in Spokane, Washin...
• Analytica Research Prize for Dr. Matthias Selbach of MDC
  Dr. Matthias Selbach, biologist at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has been honored with the Analytica Research Prize 2010 in an award ceremony at the Ana...
• Malvern Instruments acquires assets of Reologica Instruments AB
  Malvern Instruments Limited has acquired certain assets of Swedish rheology company Reologica Instruments AB (Lund, Sweden), which went into administration on 23rd March 2010. Financial terms have ...
• Development and validation of a LC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of aflatoxins, dyes and pesticides in spices
  Based on several alerts from European countries over the last years concerning spices, CRL has been encouraged to establish an accurate method for the determination of dyes, aflatoxins and pesticid...
• Merck and Archimica start distribution partnership
  Merck Schuchardt OHG, a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, and Archimica Group Holdings B.V. are entering into a close cooperation to provide building blocks and special reagents for Organic Synthesis via a...
• Chemical cocktail affects humans and the environment
  Throughout our lives we are exposed to an enormous range of man-made chemicals, from food, water, medicines, cosmetics, clothes, shoes and the air we breathe. At the request of the EU, researchers ...
• Researchers want to accelerate the scanning probe microscope
  Since more than twenty years, scanning force microscopes are employed in research and industry. Their enormous resolution triggered many applications in nanotechnology. Their rather low image rate ...
• Joining forces to unveil cell division
  he EU-funded project MitoCheck, which started in 2004, has now been successfully rounded off. Eleven European research teams and companies, coordinated by the Research Institute of Molecular Pathol...