WASHINGTON D.C./USA, 18.11.2008. During this year’s Society for NeuroScience Annual Meeting, Carl Zeiss is introducing four new systems for Optical Sectioning to expand its array of Fluorescence Imaging Solutions: Cell Observer® SD: Spinning Disk Microscope System for high-speed confocal imaging LSM 700: Easy-to-use High-Performance Personal Confocal at an excellent price position LSM 7 MP: Dedicated [...]

2008-11-18 13:57:05 - Oxford Instruments Industrial Analysis (OIIA), formerly WAS AG, are extremely pleased to announce the launch of the FOUNDRY-MASTER PRO. The FOUNDRY-MASTER PRO is an exciting new Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES) analyser for the metals industry. Using advanced CCD technology and an extended wavelength range - starting at an impressive 130 nanometres - [...]

NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that develops and commercializes nucleic acid amplification and sample preparation systems, announced today that it has hired Daniel Benetz to serve as the company’s chief financial officer, and Dr. Yan Zhang to fill the newly created role of vice president of marketing. Both will report to Elizabeth Hutt, [...]

Italian Team Uses Software from ANSYS and Supercomputer to Achieve Landmark in Engineering Simulation SOUTHPOINTE, Pa.--ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS), a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced the first commercial simulation of more than 1 billion computational cells using software from ANSYS — a significant milestone for [...]

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader in life science research, drug discovery and cellular science, today announced the launch of the Volocity® 5 high performance imaging software suite, developed by Improvision, a PerkinElmer company, at the Society for Neuroscience conference. Leading-edge life science research relies increasingly on three-dimensional or four-dimensional (3D or 4D) cellular imaging. Three [...]

Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a leading genome research institute, will use ultra-high throughput genomic analysis systems from Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) to further conduct comprehensive analyses of the genetic changes that characterize cancer in humans. Applied Biosystems today announced that it will add five new SOLiD™ Systems to the Broad [...]

Exclusive Agreement for the Americas Will Ensure Scientists Can Easily Access ZyGEM's Growing Line of DNA Extraction Kits ZyGEM's Technology Enables Lower-Cost Extractions and Is Ideally Suited to Automation and High Throughput Applications SOLANA BEACH, Calif. and HAMILTON, New Zealand, Nov. 17 -- ZyGEM Corp. Ltd. and VWR International, LLC today announced that they have [...]

World-class Facility Serves Emerson Process Management Customers Throughout Asia Pacific Region NANJING, China--Emerson (NYSE: EMR - News) today announced the opening of its new Asia Flow Technology Center in Nanjing, China, strengthening the company’s presence in Asia Pacific and enhancing Emerson Process Management’s commitment to provide innovative, effective process automation solutions for customers in the [...]

MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov 17, 2008 -- Nikon Instruments, Inc. ( www.nikoninstruments.com) and ChromoDynamics, Inc. ( www.chromodynamics.net) have announced a valued-added reseller agreement enabling Nikon to deliver ChromoDynamics' new HSi-300 system, providing high-performance, widefield hyperspectral imaging technology, to its users. The partnership, in addition to Nikon's confocal spectral imaging products, brings an affordable and fast spectral [...]

BILLERICA, Mass.--Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL - News), a life science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today unveiled its first biodegradable and compostable product, the EcoStand tube holder, made from environmentally responsible bio-based plastic resin. "Millipore is proud to be leading the industry in developing products and packaging made from [...]