Santa Barbara, CA – Anasys Instruments is proud to announce the nanoIR2™, a second generation AFM based IR spectroscopy (AFM-IR) platform. A key breakthrough is the ability of the nanoIR2 to operate with top-side illumination, eliminating the prior need to prepare samples on a ZnSe prism and enabling measurements on a much more diverse set […]

Phase Holographic Imaging AB (based in Sweden) has awarded Bulldog Bio Inc. the exclusive right to distribute their new compact microscope for image cytometry. Based upon patented phase holographic imaging technology, controlled by PHI AB, these systems can detect and quantify cells during normal cell growth in common cell cultureware. Bulldog Bio will be responsible […]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how AFM and advanced fluorescence microscopy is being applied in the study of biological membranes in the Centre de Biochimie Structurale (CBS, CNRS and INSERM affiliated) in Montpellier (France). The CBS includes a research group focused on […]

Newport Beach, CA. –– Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG) announced today that a subsidiary has acquired 13 US and foreign patents and applications on fluorescence microscopy. “Acacia continues to increase the number of leading patent portfolios in the medical device and life sciences space,” commented Matt Vella, CEO. “Fluorescence microscopy is of key relevance to […]

ALBANY, N.Y. –– SEMATECH, the global consortium of chipmakers, announced today that Bruker Nano Surfaces, a division of Bruker Corporation, has joined SEMATECH to develop new semiconductor defect characterization solutions for advanced materials development. The collaboration will generate the first-ever detailed information database that allows Bruker’s patented PeakForce QNM® mechanical force data to be correlated […]

Santa Clara, CA — Park Systems, a leading manufacturer of Atomic Force Microscopy systems since 1997 announced PinPoint Conductive AFM, an extremely accurate conductive measurement technology at nano-scale resolutionfor failure analysis (FA) in the semiconductor industry. The PinPoint Conductive technology provides on-location electrical conductivity data at specific points on sample to researchers and failure analysis […]

Phoenix, AZ — Nanoscience Instruments today announced the new generation Phenom Desktop Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). With a magnification range up to 100,000x and resolution better than 17nm, the Phenom Pro is the most powerful desktop SEM ever. Not only does the Phenom provide remarkable clarity and detail, it is also lightning fast, extremely intuitive, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has combined its Life Sciences Group with its Diagnostics and Genomics business, naming Lars Holmkvist the new group’s president and senior vice president of Agilent, effective immediately. Holmkvist was previously president of the Diagnostics and Genomics Group and senior vice president of Agilent. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies: one in life sciences, diagnostics and applied markets (LDA) that will retain the Agilent name, and the other that will be comprised of Agilent’s current portfolio of electronic measurement (EM) products. The separation is expected to […]

Jena/Germany, Istanbul/Turkey — ZEISS has installed 13 systems worth over two million euros at Istanbul Medipol University as well as trained the staff there. Various light microscopes, as well as stereo and confocal microscopes are in operation at the university’s Regenerative and Restorative Medical Research Center now. At the same time, the university agreed to […]