Cole-Parmer Announces Automatic Tax Calculation for Online Purchases
April 15, 2010
Added convenience makes totaling and checkout super easy! (Vocus) -- On a day when paying taxes is on every American’s mind, Cole-Parmer makes the process painless—for online shoppers. Those making purchases at ColeParmer.com (https://www.coleparmer.com/7722) will notice a necessary part of checking out—adding shipping costs and taxes—now takes mere seconds to complete. Customers simply type in [...]
April 15, 2010
Dr Martin Muschol, Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida’s (USF) Department of Physics and his team are carrying out important research to gain a better understanding of protein aggregation phenomena, including protein crystallization and amyloid fibril growth. Using the Zetasizer Nano ZS, from Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK), the USF researchers have been able [...]
Idaho Technology to Develop Flu Tests for Military
April 15, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY--Idaho Technology, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) to develop tests for multiple flu strains on the Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS). The JBAIDS instrument, already widely deployed across the globe, and the suite of flu tests that will result [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Opens Global Food Safety Response Center
April 15, 2010
Designed to Aid Governments and Businesses Facing Unknown Food Safety Threats Involving Chemical Contaminants DREIEICH, Germany -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today opened a global food testing laboratory devoted solely to helping contain costly and life-threatening chemical contamination crises. The Food Safety Response Center, located in Dreieich, [...]
Stemgent and Pfizer Announce Collaboration
April 15, 2010
Research and Licensing Agreement Allows Stemgent to Offer Research Compounds from Pfizer Dr. Ruth McKernan, CSO of Pfizer Regenerative Medicine, to Join Stemgent’s SAB BOSTON & NEW YORK--Stemgent, Inc. and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced a collaboration and research licensing agreement that will lead to certain research reagents developed or discovered by Pfizer being [...]
Arrayit Achieves Significant Progress in First Quarter 2010
April 15, 2010
SUNNYVALE, CA-- Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC), a leader in life sciences, healthcare and molecular diagnostics, is pleased to announce company achievements in the first quarter 2010. "We have made significant progress and expect the momentum to continue," states Rene Schena, CEO. "Pre-symptomatic diagnostic tests, expanded microarray services, and life sciences instruments are key engines for [...]
Immobilized Chiral Columns Pave the Way to Novel Separations
April 15, 2010
WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- High-speed analysis and reproducible results are paramount to efficient pharmaceutical research and development. CHIRALPAK® IA, IB and IC immobilized polysaccharide columns from Chiral Technologies allow chemists to choose from a large assortment of organic solvents. Use of CHIRALPAK immobilized columns helps to develop new separations and attain high levels of enantioselective [...]
Dionex ICS-3000 Instruments Used to Study Climate Change in Antarctic Ice Cores
April 15, 2010
Sunnyvale, CA -- Dionex Corporation is pleased to announce that Dionex ICS-3000 instruments are being used by scientists of the Australian Antarctic Division’s glaciology department to study Antarctic ice cores impacted by the effects of climate change. The ice cores can be as long as 1200 meters with a climate history stretching back 90,000 years, [...]
New Roche NimbleGen Service Now With 2 Micron Scanning on the MS 200 Scanner
April 15, 2010
MADISON, Wis.--Roche NimbleGen (Pink Sheets: RHHBY) (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) is pleased to announce that its Service Business (via its Iceland service facility, located in Reykjavik, Iceland), will now offer 2 micron resolution scanning on the NimbleGen MS 200 Microarray Scanner for Comparative Genomic Hybridization arrays (2.1M, 3x720K, and 12x135K formats) and Gene Expression arrays (12x135K format). [...]
New Thermo Fisher Scientific Application Detects 510 Pesticides in Complex Food Samples
April 15, 2010
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has introduced an application note demonstrating how the Thermo Scientific Exactive LC/MS system, powered by Orbitrap technology, can be used to perform non-targeted and accurate screening, detection and separation of 510 pesticides at low ppb levels in just 12 minutes. Increasing food safety concerns and [...]

