Vernon Hills, IL – Cole-Parmer introduces their Compact Color Meters?ideal for checking painted surfaces, plastics, graphics, paper, textile, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics plus food and agriculture. Meters containing a sapphire window offer extra protection for the color sensor. The devices store readings in memory and recall readings on the display. Select color meters include software to […]

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom – Bruker has received the UK’s largest ever single order for EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) instrumentation, a $3 million purchase by the University of Manchester. Bruker will supply a range of performance-leading multi-frequency pulsed and CW EPR systems that will form the basis of the improved EPSRC UK National EPR Service, based […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Advanced Photonix, Inc.® (NYSE Amex: API) today announced that the Lyngby campus of The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has purchased a T-Ray 4000® from its wholly-owned subsidiary, Picometrix, for terahertz time-domain studies. Terahertz (THz) science and technology is a key strategic area of development for the Photonics Engineering department of […]

SINGAPORE – Bruker, a leading provider of high-performance scientific instruments for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial, clinical and applied analysis, celebrated the grand opening of its new Singapore Center of Excellence here today. Located at the Helios in Biopolis, Singapore’s biomedical research and development hub, Bruker Singapore provides sales and after-sales […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced its 2011 Forensic and Toxicology Compendium, featuring 125 applications, including 30 new ones based on former Varian platforms. Agilent acquired Varian, Inc. in May 2010. “Labs analyzing samples for drugs of abuse, sports doping or crime-scene evidence have long considered this compendium highly useful,” […]

Irvine, CA – Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in lasers and photonics solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light®, has introduced the WEU-02, a wavelength extension unit designed to expand the capability of femtosecond lasers. Through a series of user controls, the WEU-02 can be configured for use in various spectroscopy, imaging, and pump-probe applications. […]

Glasgow, Scotland – Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd, a world leading provider of trace level detection technologies based on the exploitation of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS), for research and molecular diagnostics applications, today announced that it has concluded an exclusive licence agreement to a patent on nucleic acid sequence […]

LAKE FOREST, Ill. – IDEX Corporation (NYSE:IEX) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CVI Melles Griot (“CVI”), from Norwest Equity Partners (“Norwest”), a leading middle market equity investment firm. CVI is a global leader in the design and manufacture of precision photonic solutions used in the Life Sciences, Research, […]

BOULDER, Colo. – ASD Inc., a global leader in high-performance analytical instrumentation for materials measurement, announced today the official launch of two mining industry-specific spectroscopic measurement solutions, the TerraSpec Explorer and TerraSpec Examiner, for the analysis of minerals in exploration and production. These solutions provide precise real-time data for an entirely new level of visibility […]

West Chester, Pennsylvania, Molecular Targeting Technologies, Inc., (MTTI) announced that it has obtained an exclusive license from the Massachusetts General Hospital for novel fluorescence dyes developed by Scott Hilderbrand, Ph.D., Fangwei Shao, Ph.D., and Ralph Weissleder, Ph.D. M.D.. Dr. Scott Hilderbrand, Principal Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School said, “Due to the […]