OKLAHOMA CITY--Cytovance® Biologics LLC, a biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing company specializing in mammalian cell culture, today announced the completion of a collaboration with Invitrogen’s PD-Direct® Bioprocess Services. Cytovance Biologics has successfully completed the process transfer and scale-up to 100 L of a fed-batch bioreactor production process using Invitrogen’s new CD OptiCHO™ Medium and CHO CD EfficientFeed™ [...]

TURBOVAC SL Line Offers Extreme Reliability and Durability TOKYO, Sep 02, 2008 -- Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum GmbH, a leading supplier of advanced vacuum systems for use in manufacturing and analytical processes, today introduced to the Asian market TURBOVAC SL, a new line of high-reliability mechanical turbomolecular vacuum pumps designed for industrial, instrumentation and research and [...]

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 [...]