WALTHAM, Mass — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced the official opening of its Molecular Biology Center of Excellence in Vilnius, Lithuania. The new facility will provide molecular, protein and cellular biology products to better serve growing demand from life sciences customers throughout Eastern Europe, and create new […]

ST. LOUIS, — The Board of Directors of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) has elected Michael Marberry as a Director of the Company. Mr. Marberry (age 54) is President and CEO of J.M. Huber Corporation, a diversified, multinational supplier of engineered materials, natural resources and technology-based services to customers spanning many industries from paper and energy […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the addition of negative and positive ion chemical ionization (CI) capabilities to its new high-performance Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 triple quadrupole GC-MS system. The addition of chemical ionization to the TSQ™ 8000 GC-MS/MS increases analytical options available to the […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched the Thermo Scientific National Target DP 9 mm C5000 series vial closure system. It is designed to virtually eliminate septa push-through while significantly enhancing productivity and flexibility. The new National Target DP 9 mm closure is based on Thermo […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the pricing of a series of its senior notes in an aggregate principal amount of $400 million, in an underwritten, registered public offering. The notes will mature in October 2022 and will bear interest at an annual rate of 3.20 percent. The offering is expected to close on […]

TORRANCE, Calif.– Fasha Mahjoor, founder and CEO of Phenomenex, a separation sciences company, will leap off the 87th floor of The Shard in London, Europe’s tallest building, on the 3rd of September to raise funds for The Outward Bound Trust. Alongside a handful of other adventurous philanthropists and led by the Chairman of The Outward […]

Torrance, CA – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the creation of a new company – Phenova, Inc. – which culminates the integration and expansion of Colorado-based Wibby Environmental. Phenova provides proficiency standards and testing services to environmental laboratories working under strict regulatory […]

St. Joseph, Mich.—The LECO European Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis Centre is providing access to high resolution mass spectrometry instrumentation to the Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre, a cooperative partnership between the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health. The Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre will utilize the LECO […]

WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the publication of its 2011 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. The report details the Company’s progress against its global sustainability goals set in 2010 for environmental health and safety (EHS), community […]

Peabody, Mass. – JEOL’s newest AccuTOF GCv model – the “4G” – now offers even faster data acquisition rates and higher resolving power than its predecessor. The AccuTOF-GCv 4G has a maximum data acquisition rate of 50 spectra per second and a resolving power of 8000. The 50 Hz acquisition rate now makes it possible […]