PAC Releases Next Generation Flash Point Instrument, the Herzog OptiFlash™ Pensky-Martens

Houston, TX., USA -- PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, is pleased to announce the release of its next generation flash point instrument, the Herzog OptiFlash Pensky-Martens. PAC has over 50 years of experience in developing automatic flash point analyzers for petroleum products, biodiesels, solvents, fluxed [...]

Tornado Spectral Systems Announces Investment By BeauVest & Roadmap

TORONTO -- Tornado Spectral Systems Inc., an emerging tech company developing radically superior tools for measuring the chemical composition and structure of materials in real-time for a variety of demanding industrial processes, announced additional funding led by venture capital firms BeauVest and Roadmap Capital. The new investments will be used to finance Tornado's continued growth [...]

VWR International, LLC acquires Klinipath BV and its affiliates Immunologic BV, Mortupath BV and Klinipath BVBA

RADNOR, PA -- VWR International, LLC, a leading independent provider of laboratory supplies, equipment and services to the global life science and research industries, announced today that it has acquired Klinipath BV and its affiliates Immunologic BV, Mortupath BV and Klinipath BVBA. This acquisition further extends VWR's capabilities and portfolio in histology, immunology and clinical [...]

MOCON Announces Retirement of Vice President & CFO Darrell Lee and Appointment of Elissa Lindsoe as Successor

MINNEAPOLIS -- MOCON, Inc. MOCO, -0.72% today announced that Darrell Lee will retire as vice president, treasurer and CFO at the beginning of October 2014, after nearly ten years with the company. Elissa Lindsoe, former CFO of Galil Medical Ltd., has been appointed vice president, treasurer and CFO effective October 6, 2014, reporting to chairman, [...]

ZEISS Participates in the US BRAIN Initiative

JENA/Germany, WASHINGTON D.C./USA -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its first research grants through President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative, including three awards to the University of California, Berkeley, totaling nearly $7.5 million over three years. In addition, a $12 million public-private collaboration between ZEISS and UC Berkeley to support the Berkeley Brain Microscopy [...]

Abcam plc announces appointment of new CEO and Board changes

Cambridge UK -- Abcam plc, a leading provider of innovative protein research tools and services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Alan Hirzel as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Alan will succeed long-serving Chief Executive and co-Founder of Abcam Jonathan Milner, who will continue to play an active role in the Company as [...]

ASD Inc., a PANalytical company introduces a new portable full-range handheld NIR spectrometer

BOULDER, Colo. –- ASD Inc., a PANalytical company, developer of high-performance near-infrared (NIR) analytical instrumentation and material analysis solutions, today introduced the QualitySpec Trek, a full-range (350-2,500 nm) handheld NIR contact spectrometer. The QualitySpec Trek portable spectrometer streamlines the collection process by eliminating cables and removing the need for third-party computers or PDAs, delivering ease [...]

NanoString Introduces Novel Gene Expression Panel for Immuno-Oncology Research

SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:NSTG) a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the introduction of a new highly multiplexed gene expression panel for the nCounter®Analysis System, the PanCancer Immune Profiling Panel. This novel panel will enable researchers to create profiles of the human immune response in [...]

JPK reports on the use of the NanoTracker™ Optical Tweezers system at the University of Leiden to study the organisation of genomic DNA

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the NanoTracker™ Optical Tweezers system in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics in the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. Dr Rosalie Driessen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, a [...]

Caprion Receives Grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation to Identify Parkinson’s Disease Biomarkers

MONTREAL, CANADA -- Caprion announced today that the company has received a research grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to identify protein biomarkers associated with Parkinson’s disease — a neurodegenerative brain disease second only to Alzheimer’s in worldwide prevalence, with about five million people affected. The goals of Caprion’s project [...]

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