JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how researchers from the Université de Paris-Sud and CNRS Montpellier have used the new Q™I mode of AFM imaging to quantitatively characterize living bacteria without any immobilization. Dr Christian Marlière (christian.marliere@u-psud.fr) of the Institute of Molecular Sciences […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.,– Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announces the launch of EVOS® FL Auto Imaging System with an on-stage incubator designed to enable time-lapse, high-resolution live cell imaging in a fully automated system that is priced to make high-resolution, fluorescence microscopy simple and accessible for any lab. Priced significantly less than other instruments on […]

TESCAN, a world leading manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes and focused ion beam workstations will introduce the newest generation FESEM platform MAIA at the upcoming M&M 2013 trade show in Indianapolis, IN USA, August 4 to 8, 2013. The MAIA FESEM delivers best in class high-resolution performance, ease of use by design, and unparalleled throughput […]

HORIBA Scientific (HORIBA), the global leader in Raman spectroscopy systems, is proud to announce the launch of their new ParticleFinder module for the LabSpec 6 Spectroscopy Suite. ParticleFinder was developed as part of a collaboration with Particle Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, to support their client drug product formulation and analytic, bioanalytic, physical characterization services. In combination […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded Mohammed Akhter, Ph.D., P.E., professor of medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine and director of the biomechanics laboratory at the Osteoporosis Research Center, a nearly $600,000 Shared Instrumentation Grant to install the area’s first high-resolution 3D X-ray Microscope, the Xradia MicroXCT-200. The state-of-the-art instrument, which will […]

Belfast, Northern Ireland,- Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, today announced the launch of their ‘Optically Centred Crop Mode’ on the market leading iXon Ultra EMCCD platform. This offers extremely fast frame rate performance from Region of Interest (ROI), and is ideally matched to the speed and sensitivity […]

Park Systems, world leader in atomic force microscopy (AFM) for the semiconductor and hard disk markets introduces Park NX-HDM,a fully automated automatic defect review and sub-angstrom surface roughness atomic force microscopy (AFM) system for device substrates and disk media, the first metrology tool capable of providing this level of accuracy and automation. The NX-HDM system […]

TOKYO — Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857, NYSE: ATE), has filed its annual report Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2013, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Advantest has posted this filing to its website, where it can be accessed at: https://www.advantest.co.jp/investors/sec-filing/sec-filing-2012/pdf/form20-F.pdf Holders of Advantest American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) can request a hard copy […]

FEI will showcase its new Helios NanoLab™ 660 DualBeam™, at the upcoming Materials Research Society conference in Singapore. The Helios NanoLab 660 DualBeam system provides one of the highest imaging resolution and contrast SEMs, combined with one of the fastest and most precise FIB milling performances of any commercially-available focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope (FIB/SEM) […]