Capsule Loop Tensile Test Fixture

Middleboro, MA – Brookfield Engineering Laboratories offers the new TA-CLT Capsule Loop Tensile Test Fixture for the CT3 Tester. The Capsule Loop Test Fixture is designed to measure the tensile breaking strength of hard gel capsules. The gel cap is mounted between two pins which pull apart, thereby measuring the force required to rupture the [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Initiates Dividend

WALTHAM, Mass.-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that its board of directors has approved the initiation of a quarterly cash dividend to its shareholders – the first in the company’s history. The initial quarterly cash dividend of $0.13 per share will be paid on April 16 [...]

Analytical chemistry community to benefit from expansion of Markes International

Markes International’s worldwide thermal desorption and mass spectrometry business is set to expand, bringing benefits for analysts monitoring trace organic chemicals in air, gas and materials. New premises are being opened in Llantrisant (near Cardiff, UK) and Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), with a focus of operations being customer support and the development of new analytical solutions. [...]

ChemSW’s New Safety Inspection Live™ Enables Efficient Mobile Safety Inspections

New Mobile Solution Expedites Safety Inspections by Enabling Mobile Data Acquisition, Eliminating Transcription Errors and Automating Reporting Fairfield, California,– ChemSW, Inc. has announced a unique new Safety Inspection Live™ (SI Live™) solution that enables users to perform safety inspections using the most popular mobile handheld devices such as the iPhone®, iPad®, Android™, etc. By eliminating [...]

Axiom Analytical Announces Flexibly Coupled Diamond ATR Probe for use in Mid-IR Spectroscopy

TUSTIN, Calif. – Axiom Analytical, Inc. has announced the availability of its DMD-270Fx Flexibly-Coupled, Diamond ATR (Attenuated Total Reflectance) Probe. The new probe employs hollow flexible lightguides to provide coupling to a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. As a result, it provides flexibility without the drawbacks of solid core mid-infrared optical fibers, which include fragility, [...]

Agilent Technologies and BGI to Collaborate on Next-Generation Super Array for Disease and Drug Research

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and SHENZHEN, China, Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and BGI today announced a collaborative effort to develop methodologies designated for next-generation genome-wide association studies. The methodologies will assist scientists pursuing disease and drug research. The goal of the collaboration is to create a next-generation super exome, using Agilent's SureSelect technology. The super [...]

XOS Changes Landscape of Elemental Analysis by Introducing HD Mobile Portable HDXRF Analyzer at ICPHSO Annual Meeting

ORLANDO, FL - XOS, leading global provider of mission-critical material analysis solutions for industries and regulators, is pleased to announce HD Mobile, the newest addition to its line of High Definition X Ray Fluorescence (HDXRF) Analyzers. This game-changing portable analyzer will be demonstrated for the first time at the 2012 International Consumer Product Health and [...]

Aviation Security in China Continues to Purchase Implant Sciences’ Explosives Trace Detection Devices

WILMINGTON, MA - Implant Sciences Corporation, a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, announced today it sold seven Quantum Sniffer(TM) QS-H150 portable explosives trace detectors to an airport in China. Implant Sciences continues to penetrate the China security market, having sold several million dollars worth of its QS-H150 there since [...]

EMD Millipore Launches MILLIPLEX® MAP EpiQuant™ Receptor Signaling Pathway Panel

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Darmstadt, Germany, today launched a MILLIPLEX® MAP panel for assessing the functional states of cells by profiling a range of receptor signaling pathway proteins. The Luminex®-based approach enables the profiling of 26 analytes including total and phosphorylated receptor tyrosine kinases, non-receptor tyrosine [...]

ETH Zurich Purchases NanoInk’s DPN 5000 to Open Pathways for Sustainable Materials Development

CHICAGO – NanoInk’s NanoFabrication Systems Division is pleased to announce that the Laboratory for Nanometallurgy in the Department of Materials at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland purchased a DPN 5000 System – a dedicated, versatile instrument capable of patterning a variety of materials with nanoscale accuracy and precision. ETH Zurich intends [...]

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