World class research institute will use world’s most powerful commercially-available microscope to investigate new materials and structures down to the atomic scale. Hillsboro, Ore. - FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscopy systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, has successfully completed the installation of its Titan™ scanning/transmission electron microscope [...]

AL-TAR Services, Inc., a California based laboratory equipment repair and instrument calibration services company, has been formally approved by ACLASS and the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board as an internationally accredited calibration lab. Beginning in 2009, the AL-TAR Quality Department invested valuable time and began its journey working towards the prestigious International Organization of Standardization (ISO) [...]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to select MicroScience 2010 to announce the launch of their third generation, dedicated BioAFM system, the NanoWizard® 3 BioScience AFM. Building relationships with the SPM community and collaborating with users worldwide has enabled JPK to develop powerful and flexible [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has purchased access to the FC24 Food Commodities and Contaminants Database compiled by Europe's Food and Environmental Research Agency (fera), and is allowing customers worldwide to use it free of charge at www.agilent.com/chem/foods. "Food testing is all about being able to quickly [...]

Cofactor Genomics in conjunction with Knome and Applied Biosystems, will construct libraries and perform the sequencing of Ozzy Osbourne’s genome. Cofactor will generate sequencing data on a newly installed Applied Biosystems SOLiD 4 system by Life Technologies while Knome will provide data analysis and interpretation. “These technologies produce thousands of times more data per run [...]

NEW YORK – Research experts in the epigenetic field from Epigentek have developed a new, breakthrough approach for the identification of the “sixth DNA base,” 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC). This technology is based on a high throughput, strip-well format and is also incorporated into the first commercially available product, the MethylFlash(TM) Hydroxymethylated DNA Quantification Kit (https://www.epigentek.com/hydroxymethylation), for [...]

St. Joseph, MI - As an alternative method for petrochemical analysis, comprehensive two-dimensional GC (GCxGC) provides a significant increase in the ability to identify and quantify individual compounds in complex matrices. By adding a second orthogonal separation to the existing one-dimensional separation, GCxGC provides an increase in compound detectibility as well as an enhancement in [...]

NORTHBROOK, Ill. - IDEX CORPORATION (NYSE: IEX) announced that the company's Board of Directors has appointed a new director, Ernest J. Mrozek, effective July 1, 2010. "We're excited to have Ernie join our Board," said Larry Kingsley, IDEX's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "He brings expertise and an extensive background in the service industry. His [...]

DNA sequencing company adds prominent life sciences innovator and entrepreneur to its leadership team PROVIDENCE, R.I. – NABsys Inc., the pioneer in electronic, solid-state, single-molecule DNA sequencing, announced today that it has appointed Leroy (Lee) Hood, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder and president, Institute for Systems Biology, to its board of directors. During his career, Dr. Hood [...]

Signature Diagnostics Will Commercialize First Microarray-Based Products for Detecting and Predicting Progression of Colorectal Cancer Santa Clara, Calif. & Postdam, Germany - Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) and Signature Diagnostics AG (Signature Dx) today announced that they have signed a Powered by Affymetrix(TM) (PbA) agreement. Under the agreement, Signature Dx obtains a worldwide license to use Affymetrix(R) [...]