Polysciences, Inc. Awarded ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 13485:2003 Certifications
July 10, 2013
Warrington, PA - Polysciences, Inc. announced today that it has achieved dual certification for ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003 for its quality management systems applicable to the design, manufacture and packaging of specialty chemicals (ISO 9001:2008 certification) and the design, manufacture and packaging of dye and chemical solution stains; general purpose reagents and specialty chemicals [...]
July 10, 2013
Quantachrome India will support sales, marketing, and service of Quantachrome’s entire range of particle characterization instruments in India. With the rapid advancement of material science technology, research, and industry, the Indian market has grown to be one of Quantachrome’s most important overseas markets. The establishment of Quantachrome India will strengthen Quantachrome’s position in India for [...]
July 10, 2013
ALISO VIEJO, CA, – GE Healthcare today announced the introduction by Clarient Diagnostic Services, a GE Healthcare Company, of the first lab developed test using MultiOmyx™, a ground-breaking new pathology platform which uses proprietary methodology to assess multiple proteins from a single tissue section at a single-cell level. This test, now available, offers an aid [...]
National Institutes of Health to Fund 3D X-Ray Microscope at Creighton
July 9, 2013
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
July 9, 2013
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
July 9, 2013
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
July 9, 2013
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
July 9, 2013
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
July 9, 2013
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 [...]
July 9, 2013
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 [...]

