Waukesha company will continue Wisconsin operations Waukesha-based ASA Analytics has been renamed as ChemScan following its acquisition by Colorado-based In-Situ Inc. ChemScan specializes in making automatic chemical analysis systems for water and wastewater monitoring and control. The deal will expand In-Situ’s capabilities in municipal and industrial wastewater and drinking water process markets, the company said. [...]

Nexcelom Bioscience announces strategic growth investment from Ampersand Capital Partners Lawrence, MA — Nexcelom Bioscience, a leading provider of cell counting and analysis products for biomedical research and the biopharma industry, announced today that it has received a strategic investment from Ampersand Capital Partners.  The funding will be primarily used to support Nexcelom’s worldwide growth initiatives. [...]

Utrecht/London – Milabs B.V., manufacturer of the world’s only fully integrated SPECT/PET/Optical/CT-scanner, today announces that the core molecular imaging facility at Queen Mary University of London’s Barts Cancer Institute (BCI) has boosted its radionuclide imaging capabilities with a MILabs VECTor PET/SPECT/CT omni-tomography system. Unlike other multi-modality PET/SPECT/CT systems, the VECTor technology enables the acquisition of [...]

Collaboration enables drug discovery researchers to generate alternative, novel synthesis pathways for target molecules Partnership expands number of free extensions available through StarDrop CAMBRIDGE, UK and MUNICH, GERMANY – Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced a collaboration with InfoChem GmbH, a leader in cheminformatics. The collaboration provides StarDrop™ users with easy access [...]

Rigaku is exhibiting its benchtop XRD, XRF and handheld Raman spectrometers at Pittcon 2019 at Booth 3151   Philadelphia, PA. Rigaku Corporation is pleased to introduce a new unified brand identity at the 70th annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon 2019), held Sunday, March 17 through Thursday, March 21, 2019 at the Pennsylvania Convention [...]

Pittcon 2019 – Philadelphia, PA JEOL USA introduces our 4th generation benchtop Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that delivers many powerful features of a full-sized SEM in a small package. The new JEOL NeoScope™ (model JCM-7000) will be demonstrated in booth #3035 at Pittcon 2019 in Philadelphia. This benchtop SEM’s advanced technology and functions make it [...]

Pittcon 2019 – Philadelphia, PA JEOL USA has expanded its mass spectrometer product line with the development of a new GC-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer system introduced at the Pittcon Conference in Philadelphia this week in booth #3035. The new JMS-TQ4000GC answers the need for an ultrahigh-speed triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer that accurately measures trace or residual [...]

Thermo Scientific ICP-OES acids tested for elemental impurities in the low parts-per-billion range PHILADELPHIA – Pittcon 2019 – Scientists using inductively coupled plasma optimal emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) to perform trace elemental analyses can now benefit from a new range of high-purity acids, developed to yield consistent and reproducible results across industrial, pharmaceutical, environmental and food/beverage laboratories. Being tested [...]

New sample preparation workflow and chromatography column enable rapid and reproducible characterization of steroid hormones and sensitive separation of drugs of abuse   PHILADELPHIA – Pittcon 2019 – Laboratories can access advanced analytical sample preparation, purification and separation solutions that facilitate the high-resolution analysis of steroid hormones and drugs of abuse. Thermo Fisher Scientific is showcasing its [...]

Thermo Scientific Dioxin Analyzer offers cost-effective determination of harmful contaminants as required by European regulators PHILADELPHIA – Pittcon 2019 – A new workflow addresses the high cost and complexity faced by scientists testing food and animal feeds for low levels of dioxins and ‘dioxin-like’ polychlorinated biphenyls (dl-PCBs). The validated workflow is compliant with the latest European Union [...]