Cambridge, UK, Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, are pleased to announce further acceptance for ASD’s portable NIR drug analysers with the USA’s Food & Drugs Administration purchasing two LabSpec® systems after the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority bought a system earlier this year for counterfeit drug analysis. There is growing concern [...]

Galaxy -- an open-source, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical and genetic research -- is now available as a "cloud computing" resource. A team of researchers including Anton Nekrutenko, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University; Kateryna Makova, an associate professor of biology at Penn State; and James Taylor from Emory [...]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) will introduce new developments for beer and beverage production at Brau Beviale, November 9-11, 2011 in Nuremberg, Germany. The company also will hold a panel discussion on the subject of kieselguhr-free beer filtration on November 9th. During the discussion, users of PROFi technology will have the chance to share experiences [...]

TUSTIN, Calif., Axiom Analytical, Inc. has announced its FPT-850U Ultraviolet Transmission Probe. In common with the Company’s FPT-850N Near-IR and FPT-850V Visible Transmission Probes, the new probe has been developed to provide maximum long term reliability under the extreme conditions of high temperature, thermal shock, and aggressive chemistries encountered in many on-line process applications. The [...]

JENA/Germany, PEABODY/Mass., USA, Scientists from Lewis and Clark College, working collaboratively with the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) in the USA have examined the fascinating climbing skills of geckos and spiders using the ORION helium ion microscope from Carl Zeiss. High resolution images displaying unique definition and detail rendition reveal even the finest [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is pleased to announce a new method that exceeds the U.S. Pharmacopeia(USP) monograph specifications for risedronate sodium analysis. This method is based on an anion-exchange separation with a 4 × 250 mm Thermo Scientific Dionex IonPac AS7 (USP L48) column using edetate disodium (EDTA) eluent to resolve risedronate from [...]

Berlin, The chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel visited the Max-Delbrück- Center for Moleculare Medicine on 13th September in Berlin and viewed on her tour the NanoWizard AFM system from Prof. Simone Spuler. Together with Federal Research Minister Annette Schavan and the Berlin Science Senator Jürgen Zöllner, Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel visited the Max-Delbrück-Center (MDC). The Experimental [...]

Uppsala, Sweden, Biotage® (STO: BIOT), the first company to pre-pack flash purification cartridges, broadened its extensive range of chromatography products with the new Biotage ZIP™ line of value-priced flash purification cartridges. The Biotage ZIP flash cartridge line is an evolution in Biotage’s long history of manufacturing flash purification cartridges. Biotage ZIP cartridges deliver industry-leading performance [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is pleased to announce a new application demonstrating the separation of common inorganic anions and cations in municipal drinking water samples on the capillary Thermo Scientific Dionex IonPac AS19 hydroxide-selective anion-exchange column and the Thermo Scientific Dionex IonPac CS12A columns using electrolytically generated eluent. The analytes were detected by [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Labcyte Inc. today announced the award of $196K from the National Cancer Institute to fund a collaborative cancer biomarker validation program with the Canary Center of Stanford University. The program will develop an advanced system for early cancer detection by integrating a suite of well-established biotechnologies that includes Labcyte proprietary acoustic liquid handling [...]