Analytik Jena Expands Product Portfolio with ICP-OES and Launches New Product on the Market
March 19, 2014
Jena -– Within its core segment for analysis measuring technology, Analytik Jena AG now offers with the PlasmaQuant® PQ 9000 its first High-Resolution Array ICP OES (optical emission spectrometry using inductively coupled plasma) for multiple element analysis as part of its own technology portfolio. This method is routinely used for determining smallest element concentrations especially [...]
Applikon Biotechnology opens new production facility in Guangzhou, China
March 19, 2014
The new production facility of Applikon Biotechnology in Guangzhou, China, will be officially opened. The opening ceremony will be combined with a scientific seminar “Innovations in bioreactor technology”. This new facility is located in “science city” a newly developed high tech science park in Guangzhou. The grand opening will be attended by (inter)national customers, business [...]
iLab Solutions Announces Eric de Saint Maurice as the New Director, European Business Development
March 18, 2014
Boston, MA -- iLab Solutions, the global leader in core facility management software, today announced Eric de Saint Maurice as the new Director, European Business Development. In this new role, Eric will work with iLab’s Europe-based team introducing iLab’s services to research institutions across Europe. He will work closely with researchers to understand their specific [...]
Brooks Automation Announces Agreement to Sell Its Granville-Phillips Business to MKS
March 18, 2014
CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Granville-Phillips instrumentation business, based in Longmont, CO, to MKS Instruments, Inc., headquartered in Andover, MA, for $87 million in cash. Granville-Phillips was founded in 1954, acquired by Helix Technology in 1998 and became part of [...]
March 18, 2014
Sheffield UK: Phase Focus Ltd (Phasefocus), the company that is revolutionising microscopy and imaging with the Phasefocus Virtual Lens®, reports on how optical lens practitioners are using the Phasefocus high-precision Lens Profiler to study potential clinical complications arising from corneal oxygen deficiency. Contact lens manufacturers universally quote values for oxygen transmissibility (Dk/t) to the cornea [...]
Shimadzu’s New Nexera Method Scouting System Maximizes Efficiency in HPLC/UHPLC Method Development
March 18, 2014
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) has introduced the Nexera Method Scouting System. Capable of automatically investigating up to 96 combinations of mobile phases, gradients and columns, it significantly improves HPLC method development productivity in both R&D and QA/QC environments. Shimadzu’s Nexera Method Scouting System is equipped with two pumps, each with a quaternary valve, which allows [...]
New Centrifuge Delivers High-Performance, High-Volume Batch Bioprocessing
March 18, 2014
NEW YORK -- A new high-performance centrifuge system, featuring a high-capacity carbon fiber rotor, accelerates bioprocessing with higher volumes to reduce cycle times. Designed to improve productivity and ensure sample safety and integrity, the new Thermo Scientific Sorvall RC BIOS 10 large capacity centrifuge system is ideal for a range of cell culture and bioprocessing [...]
Easily Connect Material Laboratories with ZEISS Primotech
March 18, 2014
Shanghai/China, Jena/Germany -- ZEISS introduces a new imaging system for material analysis at the Laser World of Photonics China 2014 trade show in Shanghai. ZEISS Primotech is used both in industrial quality control as well as in the education of geologists and mineralogists. In routine applications, customers can quickly and reproducibly analyze their products within [...]
March 18, 2014
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates---Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced a strategic business partnership with Naizak Global Engineering Systems, one of the leading engineering and IT solutions integrators in the Middle East. The partnership brings Thermo Fisher’s state-of-the-art laboratory data management solutions to the full range of science-based industries throughout Saudi [...]
March 18, 2014
Innsbruck — A team of researchers in Georgetown, Washington DC, and Rochester, New York, has developed the world’s first blood test capable of predicting Alzheimer’s disease. The first-of-its-kind study, recently published in Nature Medicine, used the AbsoluteIDQ® p180 test kit by BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, a leading Austrian biotech company specialized in targeted metabolite quantification. [...]

