Quasar Debuts DemoLab™ Mobile Showroom and Training Center
February 28, 2010
Offers Hands-on Look at Latest Laboratory Instrumentation COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- With an entirely new approach to the sale and distribution of high-quality, cost-effective laboratory equipment, Quasar Instruments is taking its message and products to the streets – literally. From outside the halls of Pittcon, the popular lab instrumentation event being held March 1 through [...]
Artel Unveils Customer-Specific Capabilities of its Liquid Handler Performance Verification Service
February 28, 2010
Orlando, FL -- At this year’s Pittcon, taking place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL from February 28-March 5, Artel (Booth #935) will showcase its enhanced Liquid Handler Performance Verification service. In addition to verification of instrument performance, the service now includes validation of customer-specific liquid handling methods, allowing laboratories to further [...]
Merck KGaA and Millipore Announce Transaction
February 28, 2010
- Merck to acquire all outstanding Millipore shares for US$ 107 per share in cash, creating a world-class partner for the life science sector - Agreed transaction valued at approximately EUR 5.3 billion (US$ 7.2 billion) - Combination will create a EUR 2.1 billion (US$ 2.9 billion) partner for the Life Science sector and transform [...]
Beckman Coulter Extends Range of LS* 13 320 Particle Size Analysis System
February 28, 2010
Instrument Characterizes Particles as Small as 17 Nanometers BREA, Calif. -- Beckman Coulter, Inc., has extended the range of its industry leading LS 13 320 particle size analyzer to allow high-resolution, reproducible measurement of samples from .017 to 2000 µm. The enhanced LS 13 320 also adds Rosin-Rammler and Folk & Ward Phi methods to [...]
Startup Joins UCLA Tech Incubator to Develop Technologies for Drug Discovery, Screening
February 26, 2010
Librede Inc. has licensed technology developed by UCLA professor and team Librede Inc. has joined the UCLA on-campus technology incubator space at the California NanoSystems Institute, where the startup company will work on developing technologies to improve ion channel drug discovery and screening. Ion channels are proteins in cell membranes that play a central role [...]
February 26, 2010
WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it has agreed to purchase the remaining interest of its joint venture in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and related assets from Danaher Corporation. Danaher acquired this joint venture stake and these assets as [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Adds The Winvale Group to Global Partner Alliance
February 26, 2010
Provide Informatics Solutions under GSA Schedule 70 Contract Procurement Process PHILADELPHIA -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that The Winvale Group has become a member of its Informatics Global Partner Alliance. The Winvale Group, a total-solutions consultancy specializing in government procurement and the GSA Schedule program, will provide [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of Ahura Scientific
February 26, 2010
WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Ahura Scientific, a leader in handheld Raman and FT-IR (Fourier-transform infrared) spectroscopy instruments that are used worldwide in the identification of chemicals for safety, security and pharmaceutical applications. Ahura generated full-year [...]
Battelle, Fluid Imaging Technologies Team on Scanning Device
February 25, 2010
New Instrument Has Climate Change, Water Security Uses COLUMBUS, OH -- Scientists at Battelle and Fluid Imaging Technologies, in Yarmouth, ME, have designed a sensor that can not only better measure changes in the levels of toxic red tide in oceans and algae blooms in the Great Lakes, but also monitor close-to-home problems such as [...]
Pall Corporation Introduces Next Generation AcroPrep Advance Filter Plates
February 25, 2010
Provides superior consistency in critical diagnostic sample preparation applications PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--Pall Corporation, (NYSE: PLL - News), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has introduced its next generation 96-well filter plate that delivers consistency and reproducibility in applications, such as neonatal screening and multiplexing. The Pall AcroPrep Advance filter plate employs new design [...]
