The Department of Engineering Sciences at Oxford uses Microtest tensile/compression stages from Deben to characterise various materials: from metals & ceramics to biologicals

Woolpit, United Kingdom: Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, talks about how the Laboratory for In-situ Microscopy & Analysis in the Department of Engineering, University of Oxford is applying various Microtest tensile stages to characterise materials at different temperatures and under varying loading conditions. [...]

Rapid & Efficient Microscope Inspection of Engine Wear

Inspection of filters is critical in many industrial processes. This process is vital for fulfilling the requirements of regulations, such as ISO 16232, which covers the characterisation and measurement of particulate contamination of the parts, components and assemblies which make up the fluid circuits of motor vehicle combustion engines. Filter inspection is important in the [...]

AMRI LAUNCHES ITS U.S. INTEGRATED DRUG DISCOVERY CENTER

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Albany Molecular Research Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRI) today introduces its new U.S.-based integrated drug discovery center in Buffalo, N.Y. Located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and part of the larger commitment by the State of New York with SUNY Polytechnic Institute, this drug discovery center offers customers leading-edge platforms and capabilities for [...]

Bruker Introduces MetaboScape® at MetaboMeeting 2015

Cambridge, United Kingdom - At the annual meeting of the Metabolic Profiling Forum (MetaboMeeting 2015), Bruker today announced a new, integrated metabolomics solution, called MetaboScape®, which extends metabolomics data analysis for non-targeted experiments, based on metabolic pathway mapping. In the past decade, metabolomics has grown rapidly and has been widely adopted. The growing number of [...]

Acquisition of JHEP Certification for Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration Activities

TOKYO, Japan – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced that it has obtained a AA+ rank under the JHEP certification system*1 at the Woodlands of the Hitachi High-Tech Science set up on the grounds of the Oyama Works (Sunto-gun, Shizuoka) of Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation (President: Kenji Kawasaki, Hitachi High-Tech Science), a wholly [...]

RainDance Technologies and Blood Systems Research Institute Collaborate to Develop Ultra-sensitive Assays to Detect and Quantify HIV Latency

BILLERICA, Mass. —— RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company dedicated to simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, and Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) today announced a research collaboration to develop blood-based assays and protocols for the precise measurement of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) latent reservoir using RainDance’s RainDrop® Digital PCR and ThunderBolts™ [...]

LECO Corporation Opens New European Application and Technology Center in Berlin

St. Joseph, Mich–On October 20th LECO Corporation unveiled the new European Application and Technology Center in the Charlottenburg area of Berlin. This newly established facility is fully equipped with the latest LECO analytical technology in its applications lab, having close to 25 LECO instruments available for hands-on customer demonstrations and application work. The facility also [...]

INTEGRA help Australian Institute Scaling Up Screening

INTEGRA reports on how researchers at the Health Innovation Research Institute at RMIT University (Bundoora, Australia) are using VIAFLO II electronic pipettes in conjunction with a VIAFLO ASSIST to scale-up their screening of venoms and small compounds. The Health Innovations Research Institute (HIRi) is an RMIT University initiative that seeks to address key health issues [...]

Scaling Up Screening in 96- & 384-Well Microplates

INTEGRA reports on how researchers at the Health Innovation Research Institute at RMIT University (Bundoora, Australia) are using VIAFLO II electronic pipettes in conjunction with a VIAFLO ASSIST to scale-up their screening of venoms and small compounds. The Health Innovations Research Institute (HIRi) is an RMIT University initiative that seeks to address key health issues [...]

McPherson delivers a Spectral Test and Calibration System to the National Institute of Metrology McPherson

Chelmsford, MA USA -- manufactures dispersive spectrometers that are used to measure or tune in specific wavelengths of light. The National Institute of Metrology (Thailand) under auspice of the Ministry of Science and Technology contracted McPherson to construct by an optical test and measurement system. It has recently been commissioned. The McPherson spectral test and [...]

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