Crowborough, UK - Servomex has updated its industry-leading DF-500 ultra-trace oxygen analyzer range with performance-enhancing new firmware and an improved user interface. Widely acknowledged as the industry-standard for ultra-trace O2 analysis, Servomex’s DF-500 analyzers are optimized for semiconductor, LED and speciality gas applications that depend on exceptional ultra high purity (UHP) gas quality. The DF-550E [...]

SEATTLE -- Visualant, Inc. (OTCQB: VSUL), a leading provider of disruptive light-based technologies, announced today that it has entered into a one-year option agreement with Benemilk Ltd, a joint venture of Raisio plc and Intellectual Ventures (IV), granting Benemilk the right to evaluate its ChromaID™ technology for quality assurance or quality control tests performed in [...]

Brazil -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced it has named Pensabio, a life science, analytical instruments and diagnostics distributor, headquartered in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as its new distribution partner to deliver Illumina sequencing platforms, products and solutions in Brazil. "Pensabio was selected to distribute Illumina products because of its strong presence and reputation as an [...]

LANSDALE, Pa.-- Integrated Service Solutions, Inc. ("the Company") announced today they are expanding their reach nationally by providing customers with on-site 17025 accredited pipette calibrations. As an industry-leading third party service provider, the Company has achieved significant sales growth and is actively developing its nationwide presence to support new business. "Expanding on-site pipette calibrations nationally [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and Technology company, announced today it has entered into an agreement with XCell Science to launch genetically engineered human neural differentiated cells and accompanying culture media developed to advance the research of neurological diseases. These new products, in combination with Sigma-Aldrich's existing product portfolio, [...]

908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built devices for chemical analysis, today announced it was awarded a contract valued up to $11.5 million by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) for the development of advanced chemical detection devices powered by High-Pressure Mass SpectrometryTM (HPMS) technology. Under this development program, 908 Devices will integrate Gas Chromatography (GC) [...]

Oxford Instruments, a leading supplier of microanalysis systems, has launched NordlysMax3, an EBSD detector that acquires indexes and displays results at 1580 points per second. This performance is sustained during simultaneous EBSD and EDS acquisition. This is the world’s fastest commercial EBSD system; full EBSD maps displaying sample microstructure are completed twice as fast, which [...]

New Orleans, LA -- GenoCAD, a platform leveraging the potential of custom gene synthesis to improve protein expression, announced the formation of its new board of advisors today. The board includes six executives and entrepreneurs with a broad range of experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and software industries. The team includes: Jimmy Roussel, Entrepreneur [...]

TORRANCE, Calif. -- Phenomenex, Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announced today that it has expanded its European subsidiary network by acquiring its long-time and successful Spanish distribution partner, Micron Analitica S.A. “We are so very proud to welcome our newest company into the Phenomenex [...]

Wilmington, Massachusetts -– Rigaku Raman Technologies, a leading pioneer of handheld and portable Raman spectrometers, has announced that beginning today it will formally operate as Rigaku Analytical Devices. Building on Rigaku Raman Technologies’ expertise in handheld and portable Raman spectrometers, this pioneering new brand will deliver advanced spectroscopic analyzers that enable customers to achieve rapid [...]