San Francisco again played host to Semicon West, an exhibit and trade show organized by the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute (SEMI). As in the past few years, Semicon West was held in association with Intersolar North America, a solar energy trade show. The overall tenor of both shows was highly positive. The combined shows […]

Founded in 1999 by former employees of Digital Instruments, Asylum Research is today an employee-owned, self-funded provider of atomic force microscopes (AFM). The company has grown from a six-employee firm with one product to the 65-employee operation it is today. The company develops the technology of their AFM systems in house and was the first […]

Breeding crops has always been an art and a science. With genetic markers now playing a larger role in breeding, the science is beginning to outweigh the art. According to the US Department of Agriculture, in the US alone, public spending for agricultural research in 2008 reached $4.0 billion. Genomic analysis tools have changed crop […]

This year’s 35th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques was held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts, from June 19 to June 24. It was the third time in the meeting’s history that it was held there, but its first trip back in 20 years. The conference has […]

At the start of June, OriGene released its library of 5,000 heavy isotope–labeled full-length human proteins for use as quantitative internal standards in single reaction monitoring and multiple reaction monitoring (SRM/MRM) MS. SRM/MRM MS provides absolute quantitative protein measurements, which are necessary for proteomics research applications such as the identification of protein isoforms, discovery of […]