New Cryo-TEM System Provides Scientists a Closer Look at Life HILLSBORO, Ore. — The Institute Pasteur officially unveiled its new Thermo Scientific Krios Cryo-TEM electron microscope at an event in Paris, France today. The availability of one of the most powerful commercially available microscopes in the world in the center of Paris will allow structural biologists at the Institut Pasteur to […]

Sydney, Australia – Crystallographers at the University of Melbourne received a boost following the installation of a state-of-the-art small molecule X-ray diffraction (XRD) machine. The XtaLAB Synergy-S from Rigaku Oxford Diffraction (ROD) is a class-leading instrument that marries cutting edge technologies that will enable their researchers to generate world-class data. The system was installed by AXT Pty. Ltd. […]

Progeny ResQ 1064nm handheld Raman analyzers selected to support global efforts to counter illicit diversion and trafficking of precursor chemicals used in explosive devices   Wilmington, Massachusetts – Rigaku Analytical Devices, a leader in advanced handheld and portable spectroscopic analyzers, has been chosen to provide its Progeny ResQ system to be used in Project Global Shield, a World Customs Organization (WCO) […]

San Diego, CA – Agena Bioscience announced today that it has entered into a commercial partnership agreement with Zhejiang Dian Diagnostics Co., Ltd (“Dian”), one of China’s largest independent medical laboratories provider. The strategic agreement will enable Dian to promote and broadly commercialize Agena’s MassARRAY® System and DNA testing applications and products throughout their network of […]

SMRT Sequencing Chosen for Ambitious Effort to Generate Reference Genomes for 26 Maize Lines MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced that a multi-institutional consortium of maize researchers is using the Sequel® System to create a 26-line pangenome reference collection. Led by faculty […]

Oxford Instruments is pleased to announce that it has recently commissioned a high field magnet system at Dr Isabel Guillamón’s laboratory at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, making it the most intense magnetic field available outside a large international facility. Isabel Guillamón’s project titled “Using extreme magnetic field […]

ST. PAUL, Minn.–3M Food Safety has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS) for pathogen detection instruments and kits. The award makes the 3M™ Molecular Detection System the primary method to be used by USDA FSIS for the detection of Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and E. coli O157 (including H7) […]

Postnova Analytics report on how researchers from the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy) and the University of Ferrara  have used AF2000 Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) system and Model S101 Sedimentation Flow Field Fractionation (SdFFF) systems in some ground-breaking research. In the last 20 […]

Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials will install its first Thermo Scientific Krios G3i cryo-electron microscope in Latin America HILLSBORO, Ore. — The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) is the first center in Latin America to install a Thermo Scientific Krios G3i Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM), bringing the power of this instrument to Latin […]

Already equipped with CAMECA Large Geometry Secondary Ion Microprobe (IMS 1280-HR model), a CAMECA SXFiveFE Electron Probe Microanalyzer and a Nu Plasma 1700 Multi Collection ICP-MS, the Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry in Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, under leadership of leadership of Prof. Yi-gang Xu just ordered a NanoSIMS 50L. The NanoSIMS will be installed near the large […]