Reichert Technologies Names Christopher A. Thatcher Division Vice President and Business Unit Manager

BUFFALO, NY, – Reichert Technologies, a unit of AMETEK Ultra Precision Technologies, has named Christopher A. Thatcher as Division Vice President and Business Unit Manager. Mr. Thatcher will be based at Reichert’s Buffalo, NY, headquarters and have responsibility for Reichert’s global businesses. “I am very pleased to have Chris Thatcher join AMETEK and lead our [...]

Visit Malvern Instruments at Powtech: new material characterization products and expert advice

Leading technologists from Malvern Instruments, the materials characterization experts, will be presenting at Powtech (23-25 April, Nürnberg, Germany). Dr Alan Rawle, a highly-respected figure in the field of light scattering will present “Attrition of FCC catalysts studied by pressure size titration (PST) in laser diffraction dry dispersion” while Dr Debbie Huck, an authority on imaging, [...]

MO BIO Laboratories, Inc. launches two new kits for high-throughput DNA isolation from plants and seeds

CARLSBAD, Calif., -- MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in plant, soil, stool and microbial nucleic acid purification, announces the launch of the PowerMag™ Seed and PowerPlant ® Pro-htp 96 Well DNA Isolation Kits, for high-throughput purification of nucleic acids from seeds and plants. The PowerMag™ Seed DNA Isolation Kit is the latest kit in [...]

Morpho Detection Launches Online Store for Enhanced U.S. Trace Customer Service

Morpho Detection, Inc., the explosives and narcotics detection business of Morpho, Safran's security unit, today announced the launch of Shop.MorphoDetection.com, an online store where U.S. customers can directly order consumables for their trace detection systems. With the launch of Shop.MorphoDetection.com, the top-quality consumables that help Morpho Detection's trace detection solutions deliver maximum uptime and performance [...]

Prosolia Introduces FlowProbe Surface ExtractionSystemfor Mass Spectrometry

INDIANAPOLIS, -- Prosolia, Inc., the developer and manufacturer of the world's first ambient pressure mass spectrometric imaging device, DESI 2D, introduces flowprobe™, an automated chemical analysis platform for mass spectrometric sample introduction. The flowprobe technology is based on a continuous flow, in situ microextraction technique invented in the laboratory of Dr. Gary Van Berkel of [...]

Edwards Group Names Jim Gentilcore Chief Executive Officer

CRAWLEY, WEST SUSSEX, United Kingdom, -- Edwards Group Limited (Nasdaq:EVAC) today announced that long-term Board member Jim Gentilcore has been named Chief Executive Officer, effective March 1, 2013. He succeeds Matthew Taylor, who has resigned by mutual agreement with Edwards' Board of Directors. A respected industry veteran, Mr. Gentilcore, 60, has three decades of experience [...]

Definiens Appoints Professor Dr. Ralf Huss as Chief Medical Officer

Munich, Germany, – Definiens, the global leader of image and data analysis solutions for quantitative digital pathology, today announced the appointment of renowned surgical and anatomical pathologist Dr. Ralf Huss as Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Professor Huss brings significant expertise in pathology and will play a key role in expanding Definiens’ leading position in image [...]

IntegenX Teams with SAIC to Pursue Defense Threat Reduction Agency Contracts Using Rapid DNA Biometrics Capability

Pleasanton, CA — — IntegenX and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that they have signed a teaming agreement to pursue Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Awards supporting U.S. needs for detection of weapons of mass destruction. Support provided by IntegenX and SAIC will enable warfighters to complete their missions [...]

New Purair 5 Ductless Fume Hood

The NEW PURAIR 5 Ductless Fume Hoods from Air Science USA feature a high level of operator protection where routine work is being carried out. The units exceed OSHA, ANSI and all relevant international standards. The Ductless design eliminates installation costs and allows the unit to be positioned over a sink or benchtop apparatus. There [...]

Method development to estimate the purity of vesicle preparations using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis at the Cardiff University School of Medicine

Salisbury, UK,: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being used in the development of a method to estimate the purity of vesicle preparations by comparing the ratio of nano-vesicle counts to protein concentration. This work is reported by Dr Aled Clayton of the School of Medicine at Cardiff University in an original [...]

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