COLUMBUS, Ohio – METTLER TOLEDO is pleased to announce the launch of a dedicated thermogravimetric analyzer TGA 1. This highly sensitive instrument facilitates the characterization of plastics, elastomers, thermosets and many more materials. The TGA 1 is the only thermogravimetric analyzer on the market that measures up to 50 million resolution points continuously down to [...]

Woburn, MA.-- CryoXtract Instruments, LLC, a leader in developing unique automation solutions for preserving and optimizing frozen biological samples, announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with GC biotech B.V. to distribute its products in the Benelux countries and Germany. GC biotech is a leading value-added distributor of sophisticated life science technologies. [...]

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA -- Instem, a leading provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, announced today that JOINN Laboratories (JOINN), one of China’s largest providers of preclinical services, has purchased the Provantis preclinical solution suite following a comprehensive competitive evaluation of vendors. Established in 1995, JOINN provides drug screening, efficacy studies, pharmacokinetics [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the establishment of the Global Influenza Network, a partnership including scientists at a number of the world's leading government public health organizations, veterinary agencies and research institutes in a collaborative effort to increase the speed and efficiency of influenza monitoring and vaccine development. Members of [...]

Franklin Lakes, NJ – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced that Catherine M. Burzik has been elected to its Board of Directors. Ms. Burzik, 62, is a seasoned healthcare executive with leadership experience in medical device, diagnostic, diagnostic imaging and life sciences businesses. Most recently, from 2006 until [...]

Hamamatsu, Japan –– Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. has developed the world’s first MEMS-fabricated ultra-small FTIR engine, a fingertip-sized device that combines a Michelson interferometer with an optical fiber guide for an infrared detector element. To promote the possibilities of this device for new applications, it will be packaged as a small, inexpensive FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) [...]

Goettingen, – Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment provider, grew dynamically again in fiscal 2012 and further increased its profitability. This summarizes the preliminary figures for 2012 that the company released today. According to these results, the Bioprocess Solutions Division that primarily specializes in single-use products for pharmaceutical drug manufacture performed highly successfully. [...]

Quantachrome Instruments (Quantachrome Corporation, Florida, USA) has established a Japanese Corporation, Quantachrome Instruments Japan G.K. (hereafter Quantachrome Japan). Quantachrome Japan (headquartered in Kawasaki City) will succeed Quantachrome Instruments' current partner, Malvern Instruments (a company of Spectris Co., Ltd. ), on April 1, 2013 and from then on will deal directly with its customers for a [...]

Huntsville, AL - transOMIC technologies announced today that it has partnered with Clontech (a Takara Bio company) to launch the MGC premier™ Tagged ORF collections for gene and protein analysis. Over 40,000 human, mouse and rat genes are represented in these new genome-scale ORF collections, making transOMIC technologies the largest provider of gene content for [...]

Uniqsis Ltd has announced a new Gas Addition Module for its FlowSyn continuous flow reactor range. The new module enables fast, controllable pre-saturation of liquid reagents with a wide range of gases thereby promoting efficient gas-dependent reactions in flow, such as carbonylation, hydrogenation, ozonolysis and direct synthesis of carboxylic acids. Mixing gas and liquids in [...]