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• Merck Millipore Strengthens Bioscience Business by acquiring Amnis Corporation
  Merck Millipore announced it has agreed to acquire Seattle-based Amnis Corporation. Amnis designs, manufactures and markets high speed cell imaging instrumentation. The technology is used in flow c...
• Robert Yates to Lead Merck Millipore Division
  Merck KGaA announced today that Robert Yates will become President of the Merck Millipore division as of September 1, 2011. He will report to Bernd Reckmann, Member of the Executive Board of Merck ...
• High-tech microscope measures electron oscillations
  Researchers from Bielefeld, Kaiserslautern and Würzburg have developed a novel high-tech microscope: It magnifies objects a million times and shows movements with a retardation of one million billi...
• Nitrogen in the soil cleans the air
  Eutrophication harms the environment in many ways. Unexpectedly, nitrogen fertilizer may also be positive for the environment. And even acidic soils, promoting the destruction of forests, can have ...
• GE Healthcare to acquire PAA Laboratories GmbH
  GE Healthcare announced it has reached an agreement to acquire PAA Laboratories, a developer and supplier of cell culture media for biomedical research and the fast-growing biopharmaceutical and va...
• True Surface Microscopy wins Microscopy Today Innovation Award 2011
  WITec has just received the prestigious Microscopy Today Innovation Award for the development of True Surface Microscopy. Each year, the well-respected Microscopy Today magazine selects the best ne...
• 26,000 reference materials and one intuitive search engine: LGC Standards launches major online source of accredited reference materials
  LGC Standards, Europe's leading supplier of reference materials, has today launched what will become the most comprehensive online source of reference materials available.With an initial offering o...
• VWR International, LLC to Acquire LabPartner (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
  VWR International, LLC, announced that it will acquire LabPartner (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., subject to customary closing conditions and Chinese regulatory approval.Based in Shanghai, LabPartner is an e...
• JRC tests for contaminated sports drinks from Taiwan
  The JRC has developed three new methods to detect an illegal clouding agent which can be found in sports drinks imported from Taiwan.In late May, Taiwan notified that significant amounts of phthala...
• TILL Photonics Signs New Distributor Agreements in Europe & Asia
  In order to further strengthen its worldwide local presence, TILL Photonics has signed new distributor agreements in Asia and Europe.Established in 1982, Fondis Electronic has a long standing exper...
• GATC Biotech and ETH Zurich to Establish Method for Food Quality Assurance
  GATC Biotech, in collaboration with the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), is developing a cost efficient method for taxonomic...
• TA Instruments Acquires Anter Corporation
  TA Instruments announces the acquisition of Anter Corporation and Anter Laboratories (Pittsburgh, PA), a privately held manufacturer of high performance systems that measure thermal expansion, ther...
• Merck Millipore Completed Acquisition of Microbiology Business of Biotest AG
  Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, announced that it has completed the acquisition of the microbiology business of Biotest AG, Dreieich, Germany. All relevant authorities app...
• Water purification unit generates its own energy
  A new biological water purification facility developed by Siemens generates enough methane gas to power its own operations. It also produces much less sludge than conventional systems. The pilot fa...