AACHEN, Germany--At the 14th European Microscopy Conference opening today, Bruker AXS Microanalysis announced the European launch of several new products and options for Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) based materials analysis. Source: Bruker Corp. · CrystAlign Image: Damascene steel with clearly visible layer structure. View Multimedia Gallery The innovative new QUANTAX CrystAlignTM system for SEM-based crystallographic [...]

Chromatide, a provider of innovative polymer technologies designed to improve and enhance pharmaceutical and chemical production and processes, and Separation Product´s Kromasil®, a brand of Akzo Nobel, today announced that they have set up a research collaboration. The aim of the collaboration is to develop and bring to market improved silica-based high performance liquid chromatography [...]

Büchi celebrates the opening of a new sales office in Vienna, Austria and will start to deliver and service their products directly. Ideal conditions will thereby be established in order to ensure a high professional sales consulting together with a fast and efficient delivery, support and service for our customers. The new set-up in Austria [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 1 -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI - News) announced today its new filtration plate for sample preparation. Captiva(TM) NDLipids is a simple to use, non-drip 96-well plate specially designed to remove phospholipids including lysophosphatidylcholines, from biofluids. It is intended for use by analytical chemists in the pharmaceutical and life science industries [...]

Higher Brightness and High, Stable Current Improve Resolution, Speed and Sensitivity without Increasing Optical Complexity HILLSBORO, Ore.--FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC - News), a leading provider of atomic-scale imaging and analysis systems, today released its new extreme field emission gun (X-FEG) electron source module for the Titan™ family of scanning transmission electron microscopes (S/TEMs). The new technology [...]

Davis, CA/Thornwood, NY – August 2008. Carl Zeiss MicroImaging,Inc. and the Lucy Whittier Molecular and Diagnostics Core Facility at UC Davis have started a collaboration in the development and implementation of Laser Capture Microscopy (LCM) methodology. The Core Facility at UC Davis is currently using the patented non-contact LMPC technology for the contamination-free isolation and [...]

PENZBERG, Germany--A fast, flexible, and reliable isolation of pure nucleic acids from various sample materials is crucial for sensitive molecular analysis by PCR, RT-PCR, sequencing, arrays etc. In addition, automation of nucleic acid isolation is becoming increasingly important for reproducibility and to reduce experimental error. During the last years, demands regarding hardware design, software, and [...]

MobileTrace units to provide extra mobility and faster results to meth agents in the field BRADENTON, Fla.--GE Security Inc., a business of GE Enterprise Solutions (NYSE: GE - News), today announced the Tennessee Meth Task Force has purchased three advanced technology, portable MobileTrace narcotics and explosives detection systems to provide its methamphetamine incident response specialists [...]

Ariadne today announces the availability of Pathway Studio version 6, featuring powerful gene expression analysis tools, updated pathway collection, and intuitive and attractive new look and feel. Designed to overcome the scientific information overload, Ariadne's Pathway Studio organizes and visualizes knowledge from many data sources and facilitates different fields of research: RNAi, target or biomarker [...]

Madison, WI (August 28, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has developed a complete suite of Thermo Scientific UV-Visible and fluorescence analytical solutions for the life science industry. From routine UV-Vis absorbance to chemiluminescence, the comprehensive product offering has been specifically designed to allow life science, pharmaceutical and biotechnology [...]