Tokyo, Japan - May 9, 2017 – JSR Life Sciences (JLS), the global life sciences focused division of JSR Corporation, today announced plans for expansion of its production capabilities of Amsphere™ A3 protein-A chromatography resin at JSR’s Belgium subsidiary, JSR Micro NV. This expansion will effectively increase its production capacity by 6 times and provide all-important [...]

METTLER TOLEDO analytical and precision lab balances have received a major firmware upgrade. Firmware v3.40 offers better usability for common weighing applications alongside several new features for an improved, more secure weighing experience. METTLER TOLEDO is pleased to announce that its latest touchscreen balances are being outfitted with a brand-new version of its proprietary firmware. [...]

Plasma FIB addition to flagship DualBeam can significantly increase milling speed, enabling analyses of larger features that are impractical with conventional FIB technology HILLSBORO, ORE – The flagship FEI Helios G4 DualBeam Series is now available with plasma focused ion beam (PFIB) technology for advanced materials research. The faster milling capability of the PFIB enables the [...]

Analyses of environmental gases which previously required months of laboratory work can now be carried out rapidly in the field. A group of Eawag scientists have developed a portable mass spectrometer allowing on-site measurements – and a spin-off has been created to commercialize the new system. What are the effects of volcanic gases accumulating in [...]

UC Merced added a powerful new tool to the campus’s Imaging and Microscopy Facility. The newly acquired Zeiss LSM 880 is a state-of-the art laser scanning confocal microscope that represents a huge leap forward for the university’s imaging capabilities. “Within UC Merced, this is by far the most advanced, state-of-the-art light microscope,” School of Engineering Professor [...]

Quantitative, label-free characterization system covered by patent enables sensitive kinetic binding and affinity data for life science research. San Diego, CA The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 9,618,476 to Nanomedical Diagnostics, a biotech company pioneering label-free graphene biosensors for use in drug discovery. The patent covers any holistic graphene [...]

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford Nanoimaging Limited manufacture and sell custom microscopes offering super-resolution and single-molecule capabilities to research users. The BioMAN Laboratory is led by Professor Rizal Hariadi. Situated in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, the super-resolution Nanoimager is being used to understand cell functionality emerging from interactions between proteins in healthy & [...]

INTEGRA announces how its VIAFLO 96 multichannel electronic pipette has been adopted by Neoteryx LLC (https://www.neoteryx.com)   as an integral part of a new high throughput biological sample collection and processing system. An increasing number of clinical labs are being confronted with a growing need to process more samples in parallel without jeopardizing the quality of [...]

Lab infrastructure solution ZEISS ZEN 2 core is connecting systems, data and workflows JENA/Germany, STUTTGART/Germany At this year's Control trade show from 9th to 12th May, ZEISS is presenting a networked lab for quality control and quality assurance. Connected systems, data and workflows enable more efficient collaboration - even across lab boundaries. With the new [...]

- Revolutionary computer-aided retro-synthesis software optimizes productivity, organic synthesis - Complements MilliporeSigma's leading e-commerce platform and chemistry portfolio of more than 400,000 building blocks, catalysts and reagents for chemical synthesis BILLERICA, Mass. -- MilliporeSigma today announced the acquisition of Grzybowski Scientific Inventions (GSI), a company that developed the revolutionary computer-aided retro-synthesis tool, Chematica. Chematica uses advanced reaction [...]