Latest News 2012/02

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

Anton Paar acquires Petrotest Group
Petrotest and Anton Paar signed the purchase contract on February 28. Petrotest will now be called "Petrotest GmbH, a company of Anton Paar" and continue operations at its headquarters in Dahlewitz...
Two Molecules communicate via single photons
Scientists realize one of the most elementary and oldest "gedanken" experiments in modern physics, namely, excitation of a single molecule with a single photon. This paves the way for further inves...
TA Instruments Acquires BÄHR Thermoanalyse GmbH
TA Instruments today announced the acquisition of BÄHR Thermoanalyse GmbH (Hüllhorst, Germany), a privately held manufacturer of high performance, high temperature thermal analysis systems. Comment...
"Instruct" launch signals new opportunities for European science
Breakthroughs in biomedical science are a step closer today, with the launch of a new distributed research infrastructure for the science of structural biology. The launch of 'Instruct' will give a...
Satorius Stedim Biotech signs Private Label Agreement with Trace Analytics
Sartorius Stedim Biotech concluded a private label agreement with Trace Analytics, a leading provider of analyzing systems for online monitoring of biotech cultivation processes. This contract gran...
New software for food quality and hygiene management is being developed
Nowadays, food producers must guarantee high standards with respect to the quality and hygiene of their products. On top of everything, consumers are increasingly demanding "healthy" products. Espe...
ECHA launches the Classification and Labelling Inventory of chemicals on the EU market
Over three million submission records covering more than 90,000 chemical substances are now freely accessible from the ECHA website. ECHA has launched the Public Classification and Labelling (C&L) ...
Dr. J. Sabine Becker Wins 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the winner of the 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry, Dr. J. Sabine Becker, head of Trace an...
Analytik Jena and SOTAX announce cooperation in dissolution systems
Starting now, the spectrophotometers of Analytik Jena's SPECORD® PLUS series will be complementing the product range of the Swiss company SOTAX, a leading solutions provider in the pharmaceutical i...
ABC Best Paper Award 2011 for research on mass spectrometry imaging
The Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has chosen Andreas Römpp (38) and Sabine Guenther (30) as the recipients of its Best Paper Award 2011. Römpp and Guenther are the l...
A research project on myxobacteria has brought victory in the first "BlueCompetition"
The international "BlueCompetition" science contest for optimizing bioprocess analysis has come to a conclusion, and it is now clear who the winning workgroups from the various universities are.In ...
With single laser pulses on single molecules
Nowadays, large laser systems provide ultra-short light pulses of very high intensity which - in principle - allow the imaging of matter and its dynamics on atomic scales, down to a single molecule...
Coastal Waters Produce Halogenated Organic Molecules that Exacerbate Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
Coastal waters of the tropical Western Pacific produce natural halogenated organic molecules involving chlorine, bromine and iodine atoms that may damage the stratospheric ozone layer. This is the ...
True Surface Microscopy wins Photonics Prism Award 2011
WITec has just received the prestigious Photonics Prism Award 2011 for the development of TrueSurface™ Microscopy. This internationally respected product innovation award recognizes cutting-edge pr...