Santa Barbara, CA – Anasys Instruments reports on the study of cultural heritage painting cross-sections by researchers from UCSB and the Getty Conservation Institute using their breakthrough AFM-based nanoscale mass spectrometry technique. The analysis of cultural heritage materials presents a number of challenges such as: limited and extremely small samples, complexity of sample structure, the [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced that SAFC® Commercial (www.sigma-aldrich.com/safc), the business unit providing products and services for use in regulated pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical applications, has validated its recently expanded facility in Irvine, Scotland, which now features dry powder cell culture media. The Irvine expansion, announced in March 2013, was initiated as [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Advanced Photonix, Inc.® (NYSE MKT: API), a leading supplier of optoelectronic sensors, devices and instruments used by Test and Measurement, Process Control, Medical, Telecommunication and Homeland Security markets, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Picometrix, LLC has received a follow-on government development contract from the USAF valued at approximately $1.4M [...]

DANI Instruments Group, a leader in gas chromatographic instrumentations and solutions today announced the acquisition of Spectra Analysis Instruments Inc. (SAI), a recognized developer and manufacturer of next generation solid phase IR spectroscopy detectors for gas and liquid chromatography instrumentation. With this acquisition, DANI Instruments Inc. opens US operations, to be headquartered at the current [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn. –– 3M Purification’s new purification technology platform, under the 3M Emphaze brand, is designed to help biopharmaceutical manufacturers achieve high product purity early in the manufacturing process, improving efficiency and process economics. The new 3M™ Emphaze™ AEX Hybrid Purifier, the first in a series of single-use chromatographic products, uniquely combines three 3M [...]

The omniDOC series of gel documentation and analysis systems from Cleaver Scientific provide researchers with a quick, simple and flexible solution for their gel documentation needs in a compact and affordable benchtop unit. Uniquely combining high performance, leading edge features and affordability the omniDOC series provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful gel imaging system that satisfies [...]

Jena/Germany -- ZEISS is introducing a new compact confocal laser scanning microscope for high-end confocal imaging, ZEISS LSM 800. Tailored to the needs of a broad range of applications in individual research environments, the system complements the recently introduced ZEISS LSM 8 family. With highly sensitive GaAsP detector technology and fast linear scanning, ZEISS LSM [...]

CAMBRIDGE, UK -– Optibrium™ and NextMove Software, developers of software and chemoinformatics solutions for drug discovery, today announced an agreement to collaborate on the integration of NextMove Software’s Matsy technology with Optibrium’s StarDrop software suite. The combination of these technologies will help guide scientists to quickly identify novel compounds based on matched molecular series analysis [...]

AMSBIO has announced the availability of ultraspecific and extensively validated monoclonal antibodies under the UltraMAB™ brand. Screening of candidate antibodies against greater than 10,000 human proteins, using a state-of-the-art High Density Protein Microarray Platform, has resulted in the identification of the most specific monoclonal antibodies (UltraMAB antibodies) available for cancer biomarkers and other important diagnostic [...]

SGS Life Science Services, the leading pharmaceutical clinical and bioanalytical contract solutions provider, today announced that its laboratory in Poitiers, France, has successfully completed a full analytical validation of the novel Meso Scale Discovery (MSD®) V-PLEX 10-plex Proinflammatory Panel I, for use with human plasma samples. The validation included measurement of accuracy, recovery, dilutional linearity, [...]