CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Olympus America Inc., Scientific Equipment Group – Industrial Microscopes has signed an agreement with Hirox-USA, Inc., of Hackensack, N.J., to distribute the Hirox KH-7700 Digital Microscope system in the United States. The KH-7700 is an all-in-one portable digital microscopy system that is designed to provide observation, recording and measurement for industrial [...]

Reno, Nevada - Hamilton Robotics announces a new, proprietary 2D Barcode Reader specially designed to provide advanced sample tracking functions on MICROLAB STAR automated liquid handling workstation. The new reader has a compact footprint in a standard Hamilton carrier size to minimize the required deck space. The reader's CCD camera records barcodes in less than [...]

Strategic NATO Facility to Deploy Z Portal System for Checkpoint Security BILLERICA, Mass. - American Science and Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASEI) (AS&E(R)), a leader in X-ray detection technology, announced today that NATO C3 Agency has awarded AS&E a follow-on order for a multi-view Z Portal(R) X-ray screening system for use at a strategic security checkpoint. [...]

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 [...]