Analytica 2016 featured a wide variety of new products. Below is a list of products officially launched at the show or in recent months. The list is not all inclusive. Atomic Spectroscopy Agilent Technologies introduced the 5110 ICP-OES spectrometer. The 5110 features a dichroic spectral combiner that integrates light from both the axial and radial […]

Moisture analyzers measure the moisture content of solids and liquids, as well as gases. These analyzers can measure trace and abundant amounts of moisture in wet or dry samples. There are a number of different technologies that these systems employ to obtain accurate moisture measurements. Loss-On-Drying (LOD) is a well-known and commonly used moisture analysis […]

Company Announcements In January, Quanterix named Cold Spring Biotech as its exclusive distributor for China, and Research Instruments as a distributor for Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. In February, Quanterix named CRO Frontage Laboratories as a preferred partner for assay R&D. In March, Quanterix raised $46 million in Series D financing. It will launch desktop instruments […]

Company Announcements Epigenetic tools firm Cambridge Epigenetix closed a $21 million Series B financing in March, led by Google Ventures, and appointed Dr. Geoff Smith as CEO. Most recently, he served as site lead and vice president of Product Development at Illumina. Genovis announced a strategic cooperation agreement with CRO Alphalyse in which they will […]

Company Announcements Beijing SDL Technology, a Chinese supplier of environmental monitoring and analysis products, acquired a majority share of Kore, a provider of MS systems for the lab, process and surface science markets, in October 2015. In November 2015, Fluidigm purchased patents related to ICP-based mass cytometry from PerkinElmer for $6.5 million. Fluidigm granted PerkinElmer […]

Company Announcements In fall 2015, Endress+Hauser named Instrumentation and Controls as its exclusive representative for Arizona and parts of New Mexico. Ovizio Imaging Systems and Pall Life Sciences announced a long-term global supply agreement for Ovizio’s iLine S microscope in October 2015. It will be commercialized as part of Pall’s Xpansion cell production platform. JP3 […]

Laboratories use a variety of software products to organize and manage their data, methods and workflows. LIMS are the most prominent and powerful platform of this type, allowing users to obtain, store and report lab data. ELNs provide users with a more error proof and convenient method of experimental record-keeping than physical notebooks. Finally, Scientific […]

As part of Beijing’s $40 billion Silk Road Fund, created for the implementation of Beijing’s “One Belt, One Road” policy aiming to improve economic cooperation and markets between China and the rest of Eurasia, China has announced plans to invest $1.9 billion in Kazakhstan’s agriculture industry. Although Kazakhstan is eighth among the top 10 wheat […]