Latest News 2011/12

Latest news from laboratory, environment, chemistry, life science and quality control

KRÜSS improves customer services
With the new Customer Support Lab KRÜSS has again extended the range of customer services at our Hamburg headquarters. In future training courses, seminars and instrument demonstrations for custome...
Analytik Jena Adds X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy to its Product Portfolio and Begins Sales in Japan
Analytik Jena AG is expanding its product range in Japan, the world's third-largest market for analytical measurement technology. As part of a sales partnership with Japanese company Techno-X, the ...
Interaction of fragrances and olfactory receptors deciphered
Banana, mango or apricot - telling these smells apart is no problem for the human nose. How the olfactory organ distinguishes such similar smells has been uncovered by an interdisciplinary team of ...
Visualization of DNA-Synthesis in vivo
Researchers of the University of Zurich have discovered a new substance for labelling and visualization of DNA synthesis in whole animals. Applications for this technique include identifying the si...
Glass that cleans itself
Doris Vollmer hates it that her eyeglasses always get dirty so quickly. However, the scientist, who heads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, is looking for a solutio...
LGC Standards acquires Africa's largest supplier of reference materials
LGC Standards announced that it has acquired Industrial Analytical (Pty) Ltd of South Africa, the single largest supplier of certified reference materials (CRMs) on the southern African continent.T...
Recognizing blood poisoning quickly
Speed can save lives - especially in the case of blood poisoning. The more quickly and directly doctors recognize and treat sepsis, the greater the patient's chances of survival. With the help of a...
BioTek Receives Frost & Sullivan Award
BioTek Instruments, Inc., announced that they are the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2011 North American New Product Innovation Award for Workflow Solutions in Life Sciences. Independent analysi...
Charge separation in a molecule consisting of two identical atoms
Physicists from the University of Stuttgart show the first experimental proof of a molecule consisting of two identical atoms that exhibits a permanent electric dipole moment. This observation cont...