ANSYS Breaks 1 Billion Cell Barrier
November 17, 2008
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 Launches Volocity 5(R) High Performance ImagingAcquisition and Analysis Software
November 17, 2008
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 [...]
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Ramps Up Cancer Research byExpanding Its Fleet of SOLiD™
November 17, 2008
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 [...]
November 17, 2008
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 [...]
Emerson Opens New Technology Center in China
November 17, 2008
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 [...]
November 17, 2008
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 [...]
Millipore Corporation Introduces First Bioplastic Product
November 17, 2008
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 [...]
Nikon Instruments and Thorlabs Together Bring OCT Imaging to the FN1 ‘Physiostation’ Microscope
November 17, 2008
MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 17 -- Nikon Instruments, Inc. (https://www.nikoninstruments.com/) and Thorlabs, Inc. (https://www.thorlabs.com/) have collaborated to bring Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to Nikon's FN1 "PhysioStation" upright focusing nosepiece microscope system for Neurophysiology and in vivo, small-animal studies. Ideal for neuroscience and electrophysiology applications, the new OCT system enables an imaging depth of 2-3 mm in [...]
Analytik Jena aquires majority of distributor in Romania
November 17, 2008
Analytik Jena expands in South East Europe Backdated to the start of the fiscal year (01.10.2008), Analytik Jena took over 70% of the company shares of a Romanian company based on a cash-share deal. The remaining shares stay with Viorel Domitrescu, the founder of the company. The business management will remain with Carmen Vasilescu, the [...]
Nikon Instruments Introduces AZ100 C1si Macro Confocal Spectral Imaging System
November 17, 2008
MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 17 -- Nikon Instruments, Inc. (https://www.nikoninstruments.com/) introduces the AZ100 C1si, a macro confocal microscope system combining the best of stereo and compound microscopes into a single hybrid imaging system for dynamic imaging of single cells or whole specimens. This new macro confocal microscope system offers the highest resolution macro confocal imaging with [...]

