American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting and Germantown, MD – December 7, 2011 – Earth NetworksSM, the operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks and owner of WeatherBug®, announces its collaboration with the State of California and leading atmospheric scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Lawrence Berkeley National [...]

BILLERICA, Mass., Bruker today announces the launch of the advanced, G4 ICARUS version C-HF, a new competitively-priced metals combustion gas analyzer designed for rapid and precise carbon measurements in metal casting and heat treatment applications. Carburization shim stocks, cast iron and other carbon applications now become easy with the G4 ICARUS C-HF. ICARUS C-HF has [...]

LAKE FOREST, Ill., IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Andrew K. Silvernail, IDEX’s Chief Executive Officer, to the additional position of Chairman of the Board. Mr. Silvernail’s appointment will become effective on January 1, 2012 upon the previously–announced resignation of current non–executive Chairman, Larry Kingsley, on December 31, [...]

ST. LOUIS, Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation SIAL +0.27% today announced that Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering (SAGE(TM)) Labs, an initiative of Sigma Life Science, has made available three genetically modified rat models that exhibit features key to studying conditions such as obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis, high cholesterol, hypertension and familial hypercholesterolemia. Details on the models are available at https://www.sageresearchmodels.com/research-models [...]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announce exciting new quantitative imaging capabilities for the recently launched NanoWizard®3 AFM system. QI™ is the new quantitative imaging mode from JPK. It has been developed to make AFM imaging easier than ever before. With QI™, a force curve-based [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced a major sale of instrumentation to Virginia Tech's department of chemistry, to be used in undergraduate teaching labs. Financial details were not disclosed. Approximately 7,000 Virginia Tech chemistry students per year will have access to seven new Agilent 5975C gas chromatography/mass spectrometry systems, six 240FS [...]

BUDAPEST, Hungary--ChemAxon, a leader in providing chemical software development platforms and desktop applications for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, today announced its move to expanded European headquarters in Budapest, Hungary. The new offices will enable ChemAxon to meet the needs of its rapidly growing customer base, and provide a modern working environment that supports the [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Fluxion Biosciences today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement for EMD Millipore's PrecisION(R) range of ion channel cell lines. The non-exclusive distribution agreement will combine Fluxion's IonFlux automated patch clamp instrumentation with EMD Millipore's broad suite of ion channel cell lines. Through the agreement, Fluxion will provide IonFlux customers [...]

NEWARK, Calif., Morpho Detection, Inc. (MDI), the explosives and narcotics detection business of Morpho, Safran group’s security unit, today announced it has received an Integrated Logistics Service (ILS) contract from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for maintenance of its explosives detection systems (EDS). Under the contract, Morpho Detection will deliver significant cost improvements on legacy [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Roche and Labcyte Inc. will cooperate around high-speed, miniaturized quantitative PCR (qPCR) to monitor the expression of tens to thousands of genes for therapeutic research. “Our patented acoustic dispensing eliminates the need for pipette tips and completely removes the risk of cross contamination. The simplicity of plate reformatting and cherry picking features in [...]