California Healthcare Institute Board Elects New Members
July 17, 2013
La Jolla, Calif. -- California Healthcare Institute (CHI) announced today the election of four senior executives to serve on its board of directors: Peter Claude, partner at PwC US; Dr. Michael Marletta, president and CEO of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI); Alan Mendelson, partner at Latham & Watkins; and Dr. Marc Tremblay, president, clinical diagnostics [...]
Hamilton Scientific Continues Its Expansion to a LEED Certified Building in De Pere, Wisconsin
July 17, 2013
Hamilton Scientific, a leading manufacturer of laboratory furniture and fume hoods for the education, healthcare and industrial markets, has moved its corporate headquarters from Two Rivers, WI to a new, contemporary, 20,000 SF building in De Pere. The new facility has earned a Silver LEED Green Building System accreditation, which is the national benchmark for [...]
July 16, 2013
Palo Alto, CA -- Ayasdi has raised $30.6 million in Series B venture funding, led by IVP with participation from Citi Ventures, GE Ventures, and existing investors Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE also participated in the round. In conjunction with the financing, Steve Harrick from IVP will join Ayasdi's Board of Directors. Six months after the [...]
July 16, 2013
Santa Clara, CA -- New instrumentation, tools and techniques will be featured on the Nanounity booth, #828, at this year’s annual M&M meeting being held in Indianapolis, August 4-8, 2013. The Pemtron SEMART™ PS-250 scanning electron microscope (SEM) will be making its Nanounity US debut. This compact SEM provides users with quick and easy operation [...]
Bruker Announces New ECO™ Line of X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Instruments
July 16, 2013
MADISON, Wis. & KARLSRUHE, Germany -- Bruker today announced the launch of the ECO™ series for X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction and chemical X-ray crystallography - specifically the S8 TIGER ECO™, the D8 ADVANCE ECO™ and the D8 QUEST ECO™ instruments. The new ECO line features an innovative design enabling low cost of ownership (ECOnomical) and [...]
Alkemists Labs Announces the Expansion of Its New R&D Division
July 16, 2013
Costa Mesa, CA -- Alkemists Laboratories, a leader in natural products analysis and pioneer of cGMP botanical identity testing, announced today it has expanded its service offerings to include a new R&D division focusing on Finished Product Method Development, Verification & Validation. The new division is a strategic move to improve the service offerings of [...]
July 16, 2013
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE - News) today announced that the company has signed an agreement to collaborate with Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, for current and future companion diagnostics projects. The current agreement constitutes the first collaboration between the two companies and represents another step in Life Technologies' [...]
Complete Titrator Systems from Cole-Parmer Offer Easy-To-Use Apps-Based Interface
July 16, 2013
Introducing the ideal replacement for laboratories still performing manual titrations for their analytical tasks. The Mettler-Toledo® EasyPlus™ Titrator Systems from Cole-Parmer are package systems designed with everything needed for acid/base, acidity, precipitation, redox, and Karl Fischer volumetric titrations. Plus, these Mettler-Toledo titrator systems are available at a budget-conscious price. Although small in size, these powerful [...]
July 16, 2013
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how researchers from the Université de Paris-Sud and CNRS Montpellier have used the new Q™I mode of AFM imaging to quantitatively characterize living bacteria without any immobilization. Dr Christian Marlière (christian.marliere@u-psud.fr) of the Institute of Molecular Sciences [...]
A Whole New Way to Look at Those Pesky Summer Mosquitos and Nature
July 16, 2013
Hitachi and Challenge Camps are holding a special program at the camp which is located at School of the Holy Child in Rye, NY to introduce students to the world of nanotechnology using Hitachi’s TM3000 Scanning Electron Microscope, which is capable of magnification of up to 30,000 times. Hitachi’s TM3000 is a highly portable, easy [...]

