Micro to Nano – the new European source for innovative microscopy supplies opens for business out of Haarlem in the Netherlands

Haarlem - Micro to Nano offers microscopists the choice of the finest range of innovative microscopy supplies backed with the top technical expertise delivered at competitive prices. Micro to Nano is a new company specializing in the supply of innovative, practical and useful microscopy accessories and consumables for electron microscopy and scanning probe microscopy techniques. [...]

JPK reports the exploration of living cells using nanoscale and single molecule techniques through the application of scanning probe microscopy in the group of Yves Dufrêne at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their NanoWizard® 3 AFM system at the Université catholique de Louvain where it is used by the nanobio team to look at the nanoscopy of living cells. Dr Yves Dufrêne is a senior research [...]

The new HUNK from Unchained Labs is turning heads!

Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, a refreshingly new biologics tools company, UNleashed the HUNK today, the world's first quantitative biologics stability predictor. The HUNK gives drug discovery scientists up-front insight on the stability of their protein formulations with information on how and if the safety and efficacy of their biologic will be affected during storage. [...]

SPECTRO Introduces SPECTROLAB Spectrometers for Ultimate Performance in Metal Analysis

Kleve, Germany – 16 June, 2015 –SPECTRO Analytical Instruments today introduced two new SPECTROLAB Arc/Spark optical emission spectrometers for high-performance metal analysis. The new SPECTROLAB metal analyzers deliver ultrahigh speed of measurement, ultralow limits of detection, ultimate elemental flexibility, spectacular stability, and affordable cost of ownership to set new standards for elemental analysis in metals [...]

Renishaw’s inVia confocal Raman microscope system is being used in conservation activities at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The Rijksmuseum is the iconic museum of the Netherlands and in 2013, following extensive renovation and restoration, it re-opened its doors to the public. At the museum, art and history takes on a new meaning for a broad-based, contemporary national and international audience. As a national institute, the Rijksmuseum offers a representative overview of Dutch [...]

BIOTEC and Thermo Fisher Scientific to Collaborate on Study of Natural Products for Agricultural Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif. & BANGKOK - Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, and National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Ministry of Science and Technology have signed a memorandum of understanding for research collaboration. Through this collaboration, researchers from BIOTEC and Thermo Fisher [...]

Stratos Genomics Announces Major Milestone: Sequencing with Expandable Nucleotides triggers $15,000,000 financing

Stratos Genomics Inc. announced today it achieved a major technical milestone last month by demonstrating nanopore sequencing with their proprietary expandable nucleotides (X-NTP™). Stratos’ Sequencing by Expansion technology (SBX™) is an efficient, low-cost DNA preparation method that rescales a DNA target into a longer surrogate polymer. This surrogate, called an Xpandomer™, encodes the sequence information [...]

Biotage announces EVOLUTE® EXPRESS Columns: simplified, fast and efficient SPE using the Load-Wash-Elute procedure

Uppsala, Sweden – Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, announces the addition of new polymer based SPE columns to their tried and tested EVOLUTE® EXPRESS range. EVOLUTE® EXPRESS is a novel family of plates, and now columns, that simplify polymer-based SPE by employing a streamlined [...]

Debiopharm International SA acquires FibroTrap sample processing technology from Spinomix

Lausanne, Switzerland – Debiopharm International SA (Debiopharm), part of Debiopharm Group™, a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical company, and Spinomix, a Swiss technology platform company providing innovative sample processing solutions to the life sciences sector, today announced the acquisition by Debiopharm of Spinomix' FibroTrap sample processing technology. Commercial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. FibroTrap is [...]

Biotage continued success in re-examination proceedings

A lawsuit was filed against Biotage by Scientific Plastic Products, Inc. (“SPP”) concerning alleged infringement of the US patents no 7,138,061, 7,381,327 and 7,410,571 (“Patents”). Biotage then filed requests with the US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for reexamination of all patent claims in the Patents. At the same time Biotage moved to stay the [...]

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