Waters Extends ACQUITY UPC2 Portfolio with New Columns for Chiral and Achiral Separations
October 8, 2014
BASEL, Switzerland -- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today introduced new analytical columns for chiral and achiral separations designed to optimize convergence chromatography. To address the challenges of chiral separations,Waters ACQUITY UPC2® Trefoil™ Columns are 2.5 micron particle columns that increase speed and selectivity while reducing method development time. Waters ACQUITY UPC2 Torus™ Columns for achiral separations [...]
B&W Tek Turns Focus to LIBS Industry with OEM Miniature Spectrometer & Laser Solutions
October 8, 2014
Newark, Delaware –- B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is pleased to offer custom solutions for LIBS applications. The Exemplar® and Exemplar® LS miniature spectrometers are already used in numerous applications such as kinetic reaction monitoring and transient spectral analysis, but both spectrometers prove [...]
Essen BioScience, Inc. Appoints Brett Williams as Its New President and CEO
October 8, 2014
Ann Arbor, MI – Essen BioScience, Inc. (“Essen” or the Company), a leading provider of critical analytical instrumentation, software, reagents and services used in cell-based life science research, is pleased to announce that Brett Williams will succeed Kirk Schroeder as President of the Company. Mr. Schroeder will continue with the business as VP of Research [...]
October 8, 2014
Berlin, Germany, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Boulder, CO, USA -- Marine toxins can have serious implications for both public health and the economy. As a result, routine monitoring for a number of recognized marine toxins in edible shellfish is a regulatory requirement in many areas worldwide. Animal-based assays have historically been used to indicate sample [...]
MIMETAS raises 5.2 million dollar for organ-on-a-chip
October 8, 2014
Leiden, The Netherlands -- Dutch biotech MIMETAS B.V. announces that it has raised 5.2 million dollar to fund its expansion as a global leader in organ-on-a-chip technology. Venture capital investors Zeeuws Investerings Fonds (ZIF) and Participatiemaatschapij Oost Nederland (PPM Oost) have joined forces with national and regional partners to fund development and sales of MIMETAS’ [...]
October 7, 2014
Middleboro, MA - Brookfield Engineering introduces the new DV1 Viscometer - the lowest-cost, continuous sensing digital viscometer in the Brookfield family of instruments. Almost every part of the instrument sports a fresh new appearance from top to bottom. The head of the DV1 Viscometer features a new shape and a larger easy-to-read display. Multiple language [...]
October 7, 2014
ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today that Supelco, its innovative analytical products and services research business, has launched the Ascentis? Express 2.0 micron, a high-speed, ultra high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) column platform based on the proven Fused-Core? particle design. Ascentis Express 2.0 micron Fused-Core particles are designed to provide UHPLC performance, while [...]
DIPLOMA PLC ACQUIRES 80% OF TECHNOPATH DISTRIBUTION
October 7, 2014
Diploma PLC, the international group of businesses supplying specialised technical products and services, is pleased to announce the acquisition of 80% of Technopath (Distribution) ("TPD"). Put and call options have been included in the transaction to allow Diploma to acquire the outstanding 20% of shares over a period of up to 5 years. TPD is [...]
October 7, 2014
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their AFM system, the NanoWizard®, in the Nanobiosciences Group of the Institute of Physical & Theoretical Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig. It is being used to study DNA and DNA nanostructures. Dr [...]
JEOL Announces New EDXRF for Wide Range of Sample Types
October 7, 2014
Peabody, MA -- JEOL has introduced an easy-to-use, smart solution for high-sensitivity elemental analysis in a new benchtop EDXRF spectrometer. The JSX-1000S ElementEye analyzes major to trace components on most sample types - solids, powders, and liquids - with little or no sample preparation. The ElementEye complements SEM, EPMA, NMR, and mass spectrometry analyses, providing [...]

