March 18, 2014
Menlo Park, Calif. & St. Petersburg, Florida –– SRI International and Spyglass Technologies, Inc. have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to commercialize SRI’s in situ membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) technology. Through the license, Spyglass, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based technology company, will apply SRI’s underwater MIMS technology to a broad range of commercial, research, [...]
MKS to Acquire Granville-Phillips Division of Brooks Automation
March 18, 2014
Andover, Mass.-- MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, today announced it has agreed to purchase the assets of Granville-Phillips, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRKS), for $87 million in cash. Granville-Phillips is a leading global provider of vacuum measurement and control instruments [...]
Simulations Plus Signs New Partnership Agreement in China
March 18, 2014
LANCASTER, Calif.-- Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of consulting services and software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that it has signed a distributor agreement with the Research Institute for Liver Diseases (RILD) in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Mr. John DiBella, vice president for marketing and sales for Simulations Plus, [...]
Compact Solution for Parallel Blending & Formulation Experiments
March 18, 2014
Asynt has developed a new adaption of its Vortex overhead stirrer, called the Vortex Blend, specifically to cater for the requirement of scientists who need to test new formulations and blends in parallel. Many scientists in the oil, polymer, cosmetics and hygiene industries have established methods for blending and formulation development based upon mixing materials [...]
Adam Equipment Introduces Nimbus Balances for Precision Weighing
March 18, 2014
Danbury, Conn. -— Designed with scientists in mind, the Nimbus series of balances offers 15 models that deliver a full breadth of precision readabilities ranging from 0.1mg to 0.1g. Innovative design enables a compact footprint, so it occupies minimal space but retains the highest level of performance. The Nimbus base is formed from a single [...]
New Toxic Vapor Analyzer Improves on Market-Leading Technology
March 18, 2014
FRANKLIN, Mass.--Compliance contractors and leak detection and repair (LDAR) professionals responsible for leak detection at processing plants, industrial facilities and hazardous waste sites can now benefit from a new, portable, intrinsically safe toxic vapor analyzer that provides both flame ionization (FID) and photo ionization detection (PID) of organic and inorganic compounds. The Thermo Scientific TVA2020 [...]
HORIBA Scientific Launches New UVISEL 2 VUV
March 18, 2014
HORIBA Scientific, a leader in spectroscopic ellipsometry, is pleased to announce the launch of the UVISEL 2 VUV, a new generation of phase modulation spectroscopic ellipsometer for VUV measurements. UVISEL 2 VUV is the only spectroscopic ellipsometer on the market designed to deliver the fastest thin film measurements over the largest wavelength range, from 147 [...]
New Tube Capper/De-capper Offers High Flexibility at a Low Price
March 17, 2014
San Francisco, California - With true one-handed operation, one does not have to put down a pipette to close a tube, making capping or de-capping faster. The Capper helps reduce contamination because the cap remains untouched through the entire process – dirty gloves or bare hands are no longer a source of problems. The Capper [...]
Optibrium and Integrated Chemistry Design Collaborate to Introduce Creative Compound Design on iPad®
March 17, 2014
CAMBRIDGE, UK and OCEANSIDE, CA, USA – Optibrium and Integrated Chemistry Design, providers of software solutions and services for drug discovery, today announced the release of Asteris™, a new iPad app that combines highly intuitive chemistry drawing tools with the most visually informative predictive modelling. Asteris enables creative researchers to rapidly evaluate new compound ideas [...]
GE Healthcare launches high performance Amersham™ Imager 600 series
March 17, 2014
The sensitive and robust Amersham™* Imager 600 series is designed to enable capture and analysis of high resolution digital images of protein and DNA samples in gels and membranes. These multipurpose imagers deliver high performance imaging to chemiluminescence, fluorescence and colorimetric applications and the wide dynamic range allows weak and strong signals to be quantitated [...]
