August 5, 2014
Tokyo, Japan -- Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its confocal image single-cell drug discovery support system has been selected for the Japan Science and Technology Agency's (JST) next-generation technology transfer program (NexTEP). NexTEP was created to promote efforts by companies to find practical applications for the technologies (including those covered by patents) and research findings [...]
August 4, 2014
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has released the OneSight high-speed detector for use with its XRD-6100/7000 X-ray diffractometers. The OneSight achieves high-sensitivity analysis, more than 100 times higher than scintillation detectors. The silicon detector features 1,280 channels, which enables a wide range of diffraction angles to be measured at once for higher throughput. By using specified diffraction [...]
BIO-TECHNE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF BRENDA FURLOW AS GENERAL COUNSEL
August 4, 2014
Minneapolis -- Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) (d/b/a Bio-Techne), a leading global provider of life science reagents and clinical controls, announces the appointment of Brenda S. Furlow as Senior Vice President and General Counsel effective August 4, 2014. Ms. Furlow is a legal executive with experience in several globally diverse technology businesses, and has a broad [...]
August 4, 2014
Today Johnson Matthey, Oxford University and Diamond Light Source announce the creation of a state-of-the-art materials characterisation facility at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. This world class site is close to both Oxford University and Johnson Matthey’s Sonning Common Research laboratories and is home to Diamond, the UK’s synchrotron science facility, where currently 24 [...]
FEI Reports New Advances in Neuroscience in Collaboration With NIH
August 4, 2014
HILLSBORO, Ore.-- FEI is pleased to announce that researchers at the NIH-FEI Living Lab for Structural Biology have achieved breakthrough biological results, using FEI's Titan Krios™ transmission electron microscope (TEM), to elucidate the structural mechanism by which glutamate receptors participate in the transmission of signals between neurons in the brain. Their work is described in [...]
August 4, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas -- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) Diagnostics Division is working on rapid diagnostics for the Ebola virus using Luminex xMAP® Technology. Luminex's MAGPIX® system was recently deployed to Africa to support research efforts to control the current outbreak. The recent Ebola outbreak [...]
BioLife Solutions CryoStor® Demonstrates Superior Cell Preservation In Multicenter Biobanking Study
August 4, 2014
BOTHELL, Wash.-- BioLife Solutions, Inc. BLFS -0.76% , a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media and precision thermal shipping products for cells and tissues ("BioLife" or the "Company"), today announced that the Company's CryoStor clinical grade cell freeze media was evaluated in a multicenter biobanking study [...]
Kapa Extends Exclusive Japanese Distribution Agreement with Nippon Genetics
August 4, 2014
Wilmington Massachusetts -- Kapa Biosystems Strengthens Investment across Asia Pacific Region by Extending Exclusive Japanese Distribution Agreement with Nippon Genetics Latest agreement builds on continued commercial success of Kapa’s genomics product portfolio over the past seven years in the Japanese market WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kapa Biosystems announced today that it has signed a new three-year exclusive [...]
Bruker Launches Unique Software Package for Dynamical EBSD Pattern Simulation at M&M 2014
August 4, 2014
HARTFORD, Connecticut –– At the Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) 2014 Annual Meeting, Bruker today introduces ESPRIT DynamicS, a highly sophisticated and powerful software tool for most realistic, high resolution simulation of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) patterns. EBSD relies on the analysis of Kikuchi electron diffraction patterns which are obtained from microscopic regions of a sample [...]
This year’s Peter Duncumb Award goes to Ondrej Krivanek
August 4, 2014
HARTFORT, CT, U.S. –– The award for excellence in microanalysis is presented at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) 2014 to Ondrej Krivanek. Bruker Nano is pleased to sponsor this prestigious award again. The Peter Duncumb Award is presented for the 8th time during the M&M meeting in Hartfort, Connecticut. The most deserving winner of the 2014 [...]
