National Institutes of Health to Fund 3D X-Ray Microscope at Creighton

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded Mohammed Akhter, Ph.D., P.E., professor of medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine and director of the biomechanics laboratory at the Osteoporosis Research Center, a nearly $600,000 Shared Instrumentation Grant to install the area's first high-resolution 3D X-ray Microscope, the Xradia MicroXCT-200. The state-of-the-art instrument, which will [...]

Hach Launches 5500sc Silica Analyzer

Loveland, Colo. – Hach Company (www.hach.com) is introducing an important new product for the Power Industry, the Hach 5500sc Silica Analyzer. This analyzer is specifically designed and engineered to improve on the highly reliable Series 5000 Silica Analyzer. The 5500sc greatly reduces maintenance and user interaction due to the collection of improvements to the industry’s [...]

3M Food Safety Announces Molecular Detection Assay for Listeria monocytogenes

ST. PAUL, Minn. – 3M Food Safety today announced the launch of its new 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay Listeria monocytogenes. This is the fourth test available for the award-winning 3M™ Molecular Detection System, which provides pure and simple testing for dangerous pathogens in a variety of food matrices. The 3M Molecular Detection System is a [...]

High Performance Microplate Thermal Seals

Porvair Sciences has launched a new online service (www.microplateseals.co.uk) providing organisations with easy access to next day delivery on competitively priced, high performance microplate thermal seals. For laboratories in the UK choosing to use the new service all microplate seals are also delivered free-of-charge. Available in a wide choice of colour-coded designs - Porvair microplate [...]

Andor Launches ‘Optically Centred Crop Mode’ for Live Cell Super-Resolution Microscopy

Belfast, Northern Ireland,- Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, today announced the launch of their ‘Optically Centred Crop Mode’ on the market leading iXon Ultra EMCCD platform. This offers extremely fast frame rate performance from Region of Interest (ROI), and is ideally matched to the speed and sensitivity [...]

Schrödinger and ChemAxon Extend Partnership

NEW YORK, NY, USA & Budapest, Hungary – Schrödinger, Inc. and ChemAxon jointly announced today that they have extended their partnership agreement for another five years. In the expanded agreement, ChemAxon will provide the JChem chemistry engine as well as Marvin sketching and rendering functionality to Schrödinger's enterprise informatics platform, Seurat. “We’re very excited to [...]

Axela and Thermal Gradient to integrate Ultra Fast PCR technology with Flow-Thru Chip® for simplified and rapid molecular diagnostics

Toronto, Canada,- Axela Inc. announced today it has entered into a development agreement to integrate Thermal Gradient's rapid PCR technology into Axela's Flow-Thru Chip® automated workflow. Thermal Gradient's sample preparation and amplification technology will initially be added to Axela's patent pending approach for the capture and quantification of targeted nucleic acids. Currently optimized for formalin [...]

Danaher Comments on Financial Performance

WASHINGTON, D.C., - Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced that it will comment today on the Company's second quarter 2013 financial performance in a presentation at its Investor and Analyst Meeting in Wood Dale, Illinois. The Company will communicate that its second quarter 2013 diluted net earnings per share and core revenue growth are anticipated to be [...]

Advanced Photonix Announces Continued Market Penetration and Terahertz Success

ANN ARBOR, Mich., -- Advanced Photonix® (NYSE MKT: API), the leading supplier of terahertz systems to industry, announces today that it has sold two new T-Gauge® sensor systems. The first sale is a spare or backup system for an existing T-Gauge® system used in a critical manufacturing process overseas. The second system will be deployed [...]

InstantLabs Receives AOAC Certification for Its Listeria monocytogenes Food Safety Test Kit

BALTIMORE, MD - InstantLabs Medical Diagnostics Corporation (InstantLabs®), developer of the portable Hunter Accelerated Real-Time PCR® system, today announced that its Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) Food Safety Kit has received AOAC Performance Tested Methods(SM) certification (PTM #051302) for environmental and food matrices. The company also announced the release of new software with enhanced features which [...]

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