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• A new version of the OECD eChemPortal is now online
  A new version of the eChemPortal has been launched by OECD. It provides free public access to information on more than 600 000 records on chemical substances.By launching the new eChemPortal, the O...
• Thermo Fisher Scientific to Acquire Dionex Corporation
  Thermo Fisher Scientific and Dionex Corporation announced that their Boards of Directors have unanimously approved a transaction under which Thermo Fisher will acquire all of the outstanding shares...
• "True Surface Microscopy" enables Topographic Confocal Raman Imaging
  WITec has launched the new True Surface Microscopy option. The core element of this revolutionary imaging mode is an integrated sensor for optical profilometry. Large-area topographic coordinates f...
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Lomb Scientific
  Thermo Fisher Scientific announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lomb Scientific, a well-known provider of laboratory chemicals, consumables and instruments in Australia and ...
• PANalytical builds world's most innovative X-ray tube factory
  PANalytical is building the world's most innovative X-ray tube factory in Eindhoven. PANalytical is the only supplier of analytical X-ray instrumentation that also develops and produces its own X-r...
• ITT completes acquisition of O.I. Corporation to enhance its global analytical instrumentation business
  ITT Corporation announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of O.I. Corporation, "OI," for approximately $29 million.OI is a leading provider of innovative instrument...
• Hair straightening products with formaldehyde are harmful
  The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) advises against the use of hair straightening products which contain formaldehyde in partly high concentrations. Products containing free formaldehyd...
• First 3D visualisation of magnetic material structures
  For the very first time, three-dimensional (3D) imaging of magnetic material structures is now possible. Detailed information of these structures - also known as domains - is of enormous importance...
• PANATecs introduces a new test procedure for the detection of protease contaminants
  PANATecs is the outsourcing partner for the pharmaceutical, diagnostic testing and biotechnology industries for mass spectrometry-based protein analysis and has now developed a new test procedure f...