Agilent Technologies Ships 300th X-Ray Crystallography System
September 2, 2010
Recipient Is University of Oxford's Chemical Crystallography Laboratory Santa Clara, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has shipped the 300th X-ray crystallography SuperNova system. The system was manufactured by Oxford Diffraction Ltd., part of Varian, Inc., which was acquired by Agilent in May, 2010. The 300th (and 301st) SuperNova systems [...]
VWR International, LLC Acquires LABART SP. Z O.O. in Poland
September 2, 2010
WEST CHESTER, PA - VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply and distribution company, announced today that it has acquired LABART SP. Z O.O., a scientific laboratory supply distributor headquartered in Gdansk, Poland. LABART was founded in 1996 and is one of Poland's largest independent suppliers of laboratory equipment and consumables. LABART is recognized [...]
Sigma(R) Life Science Enters Genetically Modified Cell Market
September 2, 2010
Sigma Life Science launches range of engineered cell lines exploiting CompoZr(R) zinc finger nuclease technology St. Louis - Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and research services business of Sigma-Aldrich(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced the global release of a pioneering range of engineered mammalian cell lines. This new product range combines Sigma's proprietary [...]
September 2, 2010
UVP, LLC will exhibit at World Molecular Imaging Conference in Kyoto, Japan from September 8 – 11, 2010 to showcase the new iBox® Explorer™ Fluorescence Imaging Microscope along with UVP’s extensive line of iBox in vivo imaging systems for rapid high resolution analysis of fluorescently tagged cells, tissues, organs and whole animals in the visible [...]
September 2, 2010
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced that its Xpert(R) MTB/RIF test was the subject of a study published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), "Rapid Molecular Detection of Tuberculosis and Rifampin Resistance." The complete study is now available online (https://www.nejm.org) and will appear in the September 9 [...]
LGC Genomics Acquires the New Illumina HiSeq 2000
September 2, 2010
The new Illumina HiSeq 2000 is added to LGC Genomics’ next generation sequencing portfolio LGC Genomics, the genomics division of LGC, announces the acquisition of the latest next generation sequencing technology Illumina HiSeq 2000 to its sequencing portfolio at its Berlin facilities. The Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform - together with the Roche GS FLX [...]
September 2, 2010
Ocean Optics (www.oceanoptics.com) has expanded its offering of small-footprint near-infrared spectrometers with the introduction of NIRQuest512-2.2, a high-performance unit with response from 900-2200 nm. NIRQuest512-2.2 is ideal for applications ranging from moisture detection and chemical analysis to high-resolution laser and optical fibre characterization. NIRQuest512-2.2 uses a high-stability, 512-element Hamamatsu Indium Gallium Arsenide (InGaAs)-array detector in [...]
Undergraduates use MARAN Ultra NMR Analyzers
September 2, 2010
Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance, the leading supplier of low-field benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology, offers a range of GeoSpec rock analyzers including the MARAN Ultra. The University of Oklahoma uses a total of seven of these instruments in undergraduate education and research. According to Dr. Carl Sondergeld, professor and associate dean of the University [...]
EPA Laboratory Publishes Direct Injection UPLC/MS/MS Methods for Chemical Dispersants in Sea Water
September 2, 2010
Direct Injection Methods Using ACQUITY UPLC/MS/MS Minimizes Sample Preparation, Increases Throughput and Improves Analytical Consistency MILFORD, Mass. - The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published two rapid screening methods for chemical dispersants in sea waters using Waters® ACQUITY UPLC®/Quattro Premier™ XE (UPLC/MS/MS). These analytical procedures were developed by Dr. Lawrence Zintek, National Organic [...]
September 2, 2010
Easy-to-Use System Produces Publication-Ready Images in Seconds Hercules, CA - Bio-Rad Laboratories today announced the launch of the Gel Doc EZ, a compact gel documentation system that provides publication-quality images and analysis in seconds — with just the push of a button. Users of the system include researchers who perform DNA, RNA, and protein electrophoresis [...]

