Tokyo, Japan — Rigaku Corporation is pleased to announce that, as of April 1, 2015, Mr. Yoichi Yokomizo succeeded Mr. Wes Hardenburg to become President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Rigaku Americas Holding Company, Inc. (RAH). Mr. Hikaru Shimura, Rigaku Corporation Chairman and CEO, said that this change was made “in order to better […]

Auburn, MA — PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and precision motion-control equipment for nano-biotechnology, life science and photonics applications, provides the PIHera family of compact X, XY and Z flexure-guided piezo nanopositioning stages, offering record travel ranges to 1.8 millimeters. Largest Variety: 60 Models / X, XY, Z, XYZ / 50 […]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG) announced today that its Super Resolution Technologies LLC subsidiary has entered into a settlement and patent license agreement with Leica Microsystems GmbH and Leica Microsystems Inc. The agreement resolves litigation that was pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. ABOUT […]

Munich, Germany -– ibidi GmbH, a leading supplier of cell-based assay and imaging tools, announces their latest innovation, the µ-Slide Membrane ibiPore Flow. This new product will enable researchers to culture single or multiple cell types on a porous glass membrane and then analyze the cells using high resolution microscopy—something that is not currently possible […]

JENA/Germany, WELCOME NC/USA — ZEISS announced today an expansion of its multi-year partnership agreement with ECR Engines, a subsidiary of legendary NASCAR organization Richard Childress Racing (RCR). ECR will provide analytical microscopes for conducting analyses of various engine components. The company develops and builds Chevrolet engines for numerous NASCAR Sprint Cup, XFINITY Series and Camping […]

Vienna, Austria — Leica Microsystems launches Leica EM Cryo CLEM, a system that facilitates correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM). In CLEM, the sample is studied under the fluorescence light microscope and the electron microscope. The system allows rapid screening of large areas and fast determination of regions of interest which can then be quickly […]

HILLSBORO, Ore. — FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Germany’s University of Ulm and Heidelberg-based CEOS GmbH to develop a sub-?ngström low-voltage electron microscope, in the frame of Uni-Ulm’s SALVE project. The multi-year collaboration will involve the planned development of a dedicated aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (TEM) that is […]

NEW ORLEANS — This week, Bruker (NASDAQ: BRKR) is show-casing a selection of innovative and exciting products and solutions at Pittcon 2015 (www.pittcon.org), with an emphasis on pharma and applied markets, quality control, as well as nano-analysis and cell biology: Applied and Pharmaceutical Markets BRAVO™: This next-generation, hand-held Raman spectrometer with patented fluorescence mitigation SSETM […]