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• Optical Invisibility in the Visible Light Spectrum Achieved
  "Seeing something invisible with your own eyes is an exciting experience," say Joachim Fischer and Tolga Ergin. For about one year, both physicists and members of the team of Professor Martin Wegen...
• Towards international measurement standards for biofuels
  There is an increasing demand to accurately measure the quality of biofuel products (biodiesel and bioethanol), particularly in view of European directives promoting renewable energies and setting ...
• Titertek Instruments and Berthold Detection Systems Join Forces
  The new company brand name is Titertek-Berthold. The company will continue to operate from the sites in Huntsville, AL, USA and Pforzheim, Germany. Titertek-Berthold has developed a coherent produc...
• Thermo Fisher Scientific to Acquire Phadia, a Global Leader in Allergy and Autoimmunity Diagnostics
  Thermo Fisher Scientific announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Phadia, a global leader in allergy and autoimmunity diagnostics, from European private equity firm Cinven, fo...
• Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Vetec Quimica Fina Ltda
  Sigma-Aldrich announced it has acquired all outstanding shares of Vetec Quimica Fina Ltda to strengthen the Company's position in Latin America. Based in Brazil, Vetec is a leading supplier of hig...
• PerkinElmer Acquires Labtronics Inc.
  PerkinElmer announced that it has acquired Labtronics Inc., an Ontario, Canada-based leader in providing procedures-based Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) solutions for laboratories performing ...
• Mergers: Commission clears acquisition of Dionex by Thermo Fisher
  The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Dionex Corporation by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., two-US based suppliers of the research sector. Af...
• Plastic products leach toxic substances
  Many plastic products contain hazardous chemicals that can leach to the surroundings. In studies conducted at the University of Gothenburg, a third of the tested plastic products released toxic sub...
• Analytik Jena Receives China's Most Prestigious Award of the Analytics Industry
  The new real-time PCR device qTower from Analytik Jena AG was honored as "One of the best new devices in 2010" at this year's Annual Conference of China Scientific Instruments (ACCSI) - China's lar...
• EFSA publishes first practical guidance for assessing nano applications in food & feed
  The European Food Safety Authority has today published a guidance document for the risk assessment of engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed. The guidance is the work of the Au...
• 30 years of AJ Blomesystem - Analytik Jena Software Division Celebrates a Milestone Anniversary
  The company that specializes in the development of laboratory information and management systems (LIMS) was founded in 1981. Since 2001 it has been part of Analytik Jena, the Thuringia-based manufa...
• Observing molecules at the nano scale
  Scientists at the Reference- and Translation Center for Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy at the University of Rostock (RTC) are now able to visualize molecules with a microscope system with a localization...
• EU-Project NanoOnSpect: Cost reduction by online characterisation of nanocomposites
  Using various sensor-based measurement and characterisation methods, an online measurement unit will be developed for compounding processes. The data obtained will be integrated into the database o...
• Specialised Imaging Ltd. Wins Prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise
  Specialised Imaging Ltd. have today been named as a winner of The Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2011 - the UK's most prestigious accolade for business success.The company was given the ...
• GE Healthcare to Acquire Cellular Imaging Company Applied Precision, Inc.
  GE Healthcare announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Applied Precision, Inc., a supplier of innovative cellular imaging technologies for the fast-growing cell biology and biomedical resea...