Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches MagnaRay Spectrometer Creating the First Completely Integrated EDS/WDS System

ALBUQUERQUE, NM, (August 4, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of the first intelligent Wavelength Dispersive X-ray spectrometer (WDS), the Thermo Scientific MagnaRay WDS Spectrometer. The instrument automatically combines energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) results with WDS operations using the embedded expert system. Integrated with the [...]

Portable on-farm grain analyser to improve harvest and profit

FOSS in the Pacific region announces the Infratec™ Sofia, a rugged, simple-to-use and accurate grain analyser that allows farmers to make informed decisions about when to harvest and how best to use the crop. The ability to assess the quality and characteristics of grain on-farm is becoming increasingly important for farmers as costs associated with [...]

Illumina Appoints Mostafa Ronaghi as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) today announced the appointment of Dr. Mostafa Ronaghi as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. As reported during Illumina’s July 22, 2008 second quarter earnings release, Dr. Ronaghi joined Illumina following the Company’s recent acquisition of Avantome, Inc., which closed on August 1, 2008. Among his other duties, [...]

Improved Helium Ion Microscope Sets New Standards for Imaging Resolution and Brightness

Carl Zeiss SMT introduces the ORION® PLUS Helium Ion Microscope, with significant improvements that redefine what’s possible in high end microscopy. ALBUQUERQUE/New Mexiko/USA – August 4, 2008. At the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008 meeting and exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and [...]

CombiMatrix Receives New Contract From U.S. Department of Defense

Work On This Contract From Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Could Enable New Military and Commercial Applications of CombiMatrix Technology and Products MUKILTEO, Wash., Aug. 4, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX - News) announced today that it has received a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to initiate a [...]

Argon Ion Column Extends ZEISS NVision Product Family

Supreme milling. Third column makes NVision 40 even more versatile. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--To enable the production of highly polished TEM lamellas, Carl Zeiss SMT now offers an additional Argon ion beam column to its successful NVison 40 CrossBeam workstation. Highly polished TEM lamellas are a prerequisite for successful analysis of specimens in a transmission electron microscope. [...]

Invitrogen, Lentigen to Provide Lentivirus Products and Services for Gene Over-Expression

CARLSBAD, Calif. & BALTIMORE--Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN - News), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, and Lentigen Corporation, a privately-held biotechnology company specializing in the development and manufacture of lentiviral gene delivery technologies, announced today a partnership to develop and supply gene over-expression products and services. Invitrogen will exclusively commercialize [...]

Broad Institute researchers introduce next generation tool for visualizing genomic data

Researchers are collecting vast amounts of diverse genomic data with ever-increasing speed, but effective ways to visualize these data in an integrated manner have lagged behind the ability to generate them. To address this growing need, researchers at the Broad Institute have developed the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV), a novel and freely available visualization tool [...]

HPV-Test zur Früherkennung von Gebärmutterhalskrebs

Venlo, The Netherlands, August 4, 2008 - New cervical cancer prevention guidelines issued by the German Association for Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG) recommend testing women 30 and over for HPV (human papillomavirus) — the primary cause of cervical cancer. The guidelines recommend that HPV testing be performed along with a Pap smear for women 30 [...]

New Product Provides “100% R and More”(TM), Easy Installation for

REvolution Computing Launches RPro(TM) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 4 -- REvolution Computing, the leading commercial provider of software, support and professional services for the popular open-source statistical computing language known as "R," today announced it has officially launched RPro(TM). A sophisticated statistical analysis package and programming language, R offers the full range of general statistical [...]

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