Markes International prepares for further global expansion by strengthening management team
August 6, 2013
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK), a specialist manufacturer of innovative analytical instrumentation for trace organic analysis, has announced the appointment of two key new directors to strengthen its management team. Terry Buckland joins as Sales & Service Director after a successful 20-year career with some of the world’s biggest scientific instrumentation companies, including: Applied Biosciences, Varian [...]
The Oasis Tool Recommends Optimized Protocols Customized to Customer’s Samples
August 6, 2013
Milford, Mass. –– Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today unveiled its new web-based Oasis® Method Development Tools designed to help customers reduce their sample preparation method development time as part of Waters Simple Prep™ campaign. Based on the customers’ sample requirements, the Oasis Method Development Tools will recommend the optimized solid-phase extraction (SPE) protocol to develop [...]
3M Molecular Detection System Receives First AOAC Official Methods of Analysis Validation
August 6, 2013
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- 3M Food Safety announced today that its 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay Salmonella has been validated through AOAC INTERNATIONAL as a First Action Official Method of AnalysisSM (OMA method number 2013.09) for the detection of Salmonella in selected foods. A complete review of the study conducted for this AOAC-OMA validation will be published [...]
Cornell University Adopts LabArchives for Management of Laboratory Data
August 6, 2013
LabArchives, LLC and Cornell University announced today that Cornell has purchased a subscription to the LabArchives platform for the storage, organization, sharing, and publication of research data. Effective immediately, LabArchives is now available at no charge to all Cornell faculty and students working at its main campus in Ithaca, New York. LabArchives is a browser-based [...]
Rare biorepository finds new home at Marine Science Center
August 6, 2013
Northeastern’s University’s Marine Science Center will soon house a tissue collection from the world’s most rare, strange, and remarkable ocean creatures. Based on the partnership between Northeastern, Ocean Genome Legacy and New England Biolabs, the university will be home to the Ocean Genome Legacy Center of New England Biolabs—a publicly accessible biorepository of DNA samples [...]
Certara Enhances SYBYL-X Drug Design and Discovery Software Suite
August 6, 2013
ST. LOUIS, MO –– Certara™, a leading provider of software and scientific consulting services to improve productivity and decision-making from drug discovery through drug development, today announced the release of version 2.1 of its SYBYL®-X molecular modeling and simulation suite. SYBYL-X is a comprehensive suite of computer-aided design tools developed to expedite drug design and [...]
FOSS partners with the UN, businesses, and NGOs in the fight against poverty
August 6, 2013
For the second year, FOSS has joined with the UN, Danida, businesses and NGOs in promoting progress made against the UN Millennium Development Goals. The eight goals were agreed to by all the world’s countries and are a plan for addressing issues such as education, world hunger, and healthcare in developing countries. The goals have [...]
Ametek Process Instruments Wins Major Contract for Sulfur Analyzers at Al Hosn Gas Project
August 5, 2013
AMETEK Process Instruments (www.ametekpi.com) has been awarded US$4.6 million contract to supply UV process gas analyzers for the Abu Dhabi Gas Development Company’s (Al Hosn Gas) Shah Gas Field project. The analyzers will be used in the Sulfur Recovery Units (SRU) and Tail Gas Treating Units (TGTU), expected to be the largest complex of its [...]
Next Generation EVO delivers Workflow Automation and High Definition Imaging
August 5, 2013
Today at M&M 2013, Indianapolis, ZEISS launches the next generation EVO series for material and life science applications. Customer productivity and imaging performance are dramatically increased by the SEM’s workflow automation, beam deceleration technology and class leading HD BSE detector. EVO reduces a typical workflow from over 400 steps to just 15. Workflow productivity is [...]
August 5, 2013
SAN DIEGO, -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced that the New York Department of Health's Wadsworth Center Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program (CLEP) has issued a clinical laboratory permit to allow the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine's (Sequenom CMM) San Diego facility to provide its noninvasive [...]

