Kennedy Krieger and Partek Incorporated Discover Novel Method to Reveal Genetic Relatedness Between Individuals

ST. LOUIS - At a time when profound gaps remain in our understanding of how one person’s genes differ from another person’s, developing accurate methods to interpret the human genome is essential to uncover population history, population relationships and the genetic basis of some of the most common diseases affecting society. Recently published in PLoS [...]

Implant Sciences’ QS-H150 Explosives Trace Detector Deployed at Third Airport in India

WILMINGTON, MA - Implant Sciences Corporation, a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, today announced the sale of its Quantum Sniffer™ QS-H150 handheld explosives trace detector to a new customer in India. The QS-H150 will be used for security screening at Nasik Airport. Quantum Sniffers have previously been deployed at [...]

Future Fuels Institute at Florida State University Recognized as a Waters Center of Innovation

MILFORD, Mass. - Waters Corporation today welcomed the Future Fuels Institute at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida into its Centers of Innovation Program. The Future Fuels Institute under its director, Dr. Chang S. (Sam) Hsu, is pioneering research into the development of fuels from fossil and renewable energy sources to meet future global demands for [...]

INFICON Acquires Assets of Photovac Inc., a US-based Specialist in VOC Detection Equipment

Bad Ragaz/Switzerland / Syracuse/New York — INFICON, a leading manufacturer of instrumentation and process control software for the semiconductor and vacuum-coating industries and other industrial applications, has acquired the assets of Photovac Inc., a developer and manufacturer of volatile organic compound (VOC) detection equipment. The addition of Photovac’s products and sensor technology to the already [...]

ASD Inc. Releases FieldSpec 4 Spectroradiometer Line with 2x Performance Improvement in SWIR 1 & 2 Regions

ASD Inc., the global leader in high-performance analytical instrumentation and materials analysis solutions, continues its tradition of setting industry standards for ground truthing and remote sensing measurement technologies with the release of the FieldSpec 4 line of portable, full-range spectroradiometers. The FieldSpec 4 line is designed for faster, more precise spectral data collection. The powerful [...]

Introducing the new EDXpert Hand-Held XRF Analyser Gun From Torontech

Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) technology has a wide application. EDXRF analysers can be used in the mining industry to quality control industry. Hand-held XRF analysers are very popular because of the accuracy and portability. The EDXpert hand-held XRF analyser from Torontech incorporates the accuracy of bench-top models into an ergonomic and portable design. The [...]

Waters, Mars and USAID Pledge $1 Million to Create Global Food Safety Capacity Building Fund

MILFORD, Mass. - Announced at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Hawaii, Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), along with Mars Incorporated and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), jointly pledged $1 million to create the first ever Global Food Safety Capacity Building fund. To be managed by the World Bank, the proposed fund will [...]

Genedata Expressionist 7.0 for Genomic Profiling at NGS Congress 2011

Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced Genedata Expressionist 7.0 for Genomic Profiling, which will be featured at the 3rd Annual Next Generation Sequencing Congress. The Congress showcases besides next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms and technologies some of the industry-leading computational tools for analyzing NGS [...]

Millennium Science enters distribution agreement with Pacific Biosciences

Melbourne, Australia and Menlo Park, CA, USA: Millennium Science, a life science distributor specialising in high-technology research solutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) announced today that they have entered an agreement to appoint Millennium Science as Pacific Biosciences’ sole distributor in Australia and New Zealand for PacBio’s breakthrough [...]

New X-MET7000 handheld XRF analyser

Oxford Instruments is proud to launch a new faster, lighter and smaller handheld XRF analyser - the X MET7000. With one pull of the trigger, the X MET7000 delivers faster than ever results for materials analysis, verification and screening. This new look and feel now has a totally new fast user interface, new reporting power [...]

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