AYOXXA Biosystems wins new investors to close a € 9,0m Series B round

Cologne -- AYOXXA Biosystems GmbH, an international biotechnology company, completed a € 9,0m Series B financing round by the end of June 2014. All of the company’s existing investors (High-Tech Gründerfonds, KfW, NRW.BANK, Wellington Partners Venture Capital and private investors) took part, along with new investors b-to-v Partners AG, Creathor Venture and HR Ventures. In [...]

PerkinElmer Opens its New Italy Head Office and Customer Knowledge Center in Milan

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the opening of its new Italy head office and Customer Knowledge Center, which is located in the rapidly expanding scientific and academic district of Milano Bicocca University. The anticipated opening date is July 14, 2014. The Center [...]

New Rheo3000 V.2 Software Harnesses the Power of new RST Touch Screen Rheometers

Middleboro, MA - Brookfield Engineering introduces Rheo3000 V.2 Software for use with their new family of RST Touch Screen Rheometers. Utilizing the power of Rheo3000 V.2, RST Rheometers offer the quickest and most comprehensive capability for making rheological measurements, whether it’s single point viscosity for QC or complete flow curve analysis for R&D. Rheo3000 V.2 [...]

Large Capacity Refrigerating/Heating Circulator Simplifies Pressurized Can Burst Testing

Niles, IL – As part of quality control in the manufacturing and use of pressurized cans for products such as shaving cream, deodorant, insecticides, spray paint, and other pressurized aerosols, the cans must be tested for durability to ensure that they don’t explode or otherwise fail when exposed to temperature extremes during shipping and storage. [...]

New Abbemat Juice Station – Precise Brix Measurement of Beverages Containing Pulp

One of the most important quality analysis parameters in juice production is °Brix, which represents the sugar concentration as well as the composition of the juice. Abbemat refractometers are fast and reliable instruments commonly used for °Brix measurements. However, many juices, especially orange juices, contain pulp which remains in the beverage. During measurement with a [...]

Spectro Scientific Wins Innovation Research Award in Support of the Joint U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force Oil Analysis Program

CHELMSFORD, MA –- Spectro Scientific, a leading developer and manufacturer of analytical tools and software for fluid and machine condition monitoring, has earned a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award totaling $750,000 for its work in reevaluating the Joint Oil Analysis Program (JOAP) that consolidates and coordinates the oil analysis programs of the [...]

Enzymatics Expands Archer™ FusionPlex™ Product Line with Targeted Sequencing Assay for Sarcoma-Associated Gene Fusion Detection

BOULDER, Colo. & BEVERLY, Mass.-- Enzymatics today launches a new targeted sequencing assay for detecting and identifying fusions of 26 genes associated with sarcoma. Using Enzymatics’ proprietary Anchored Multiplex PCR™-based enrichment, fusions of all genes in the panel can be identified in a single sequencing run, without prior knowledge of fusion partners or breakpoints. The [...]

Syapse Raises $10 Million Series B Financing Led by Safeguard Scientifics

PALO ALTO, Calif. and WAYNE, Pa.-— Syapse, creators of the Precision Medicine Data Platform, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series B financing, led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE:SFE) with participation from Series A investor, The Social+Capital Partnership. This financing will enable Syapse to extend its lead in helping healthcare providers deploy precision medicine [...]

METTLER TOLEDO announces a new Thermogravimetric Analyzer, the TGA/DSC 2.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- METTLER TOLEDO celebrates 50 years of providing Swiss quality in Thermal Analysis products. We are pleased to introduce the TGA/DSC 2 featuring the latest in technology from the world-wide leader in laboratory weighing solutions, XP micro- and XPU ultra-microbalances. In the last two decades, we have proudly provided the only thermogravimetric analyzer [...]

Bruker Introduces Inspire Nanoscale Chemical Mapping System

BILLERICA, Mass.-- Bruker (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced the release of Inspire™, the first integrated scanning probe microscopy (SPM) infrared system for 10-nanometer spatial resolution in chemical and materials property mapping. The new and unique Inspire system incorporates Bruker’s proprietary PeakForce IR™ mode to enable nanoscale infrared reflection and absorption mapping for a wide range of [...]

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