SAN DIEGO Echo, the company who created the first-ever hybrid microscope, announced today the completion of $7.5 million in Series A funding. The capital investment, co-led by Dolby Family Ventures and Tech Coast Angels (TCA), will support Echo in scaling manufacturing, strengthening the company’s sales infrastructure, and developing future technologies. Echo, formerly Echo Laboratories, is […]

CARL R. WOESE INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ZEISS has named the Core Facilities at IGB as an official ZEISS labs@location Partner. The model facility will allow researchers from around […]

Arrayjet, the Midlothian-based microarray instrumentation company, has secured a contract with/within The New York Bioscience Cluster, one of America’s premier medical education and biomedical research facilities. The Bronx-based bioscience cluster continues to ‘future proof’ its microarray printing development, improve its research services and grow its cliental base.  It continues a quest to target important problems […]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) is now home to one of the world’s most powerful microscopes—one that images life’s building blocks in startling clarity and equips VARI’s growing team of scientists to push the limits of discovery in search of new treatments for diseases such as cancer and Parkinson’s. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass–Ultivue has appointed Philippe Mourere as Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations. Mourere previously served as Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Cell Signaling Technology and as Senior Director, Corporate Development, Life Science & Technology Business at PerkinElmer, Inc. From 2006 to 2012, Mourere served as Senior Director, Global Sales & Marketing, Discovery, […]

Prior Scientific has announced the appointment of Manuj Patel as Global Strategic Marketing Manager. Manuj will report to Prior Scientific CEO, Tom Freda. Manuj joins Prior Scientific from LivaNova Group, formerly Sorin Group, where he served as Marketing Manager and Northern Divisional Manager CRM UK  for the past six years. Manuj was part of the Executive Management […]

The global Scientific Instrument group Techcomp is adding a further 20 scientists and engineers based at their Livingston production and R&D centre. Following the acquisition of Edinburgh Instruments in 2013, Techcomp is transferring R&D activity from Scion Instruments in San Francisco to their campus in Livingston and is setting up the Techcomp Research and Engineering […]

Enhanced resolution and faster FIB material processing for maximum efficiency ZEISS presents a new generation of focused ion beam scanning electron microscopes (FIB-SEMs) for high-end applications in research and industry. ZEISS Crossbeam 550 features a significant increase in resolution for imaging and material characterization and a speed gain in sample preparation. Nanostructures such as composites, […]

-Review SEM Featuring Pattern Inspection and Measurement Function through Design Data Comparison Analysis- Tokyo, Japan – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE:8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced sales launch of a high-speed defect review SEM CR6300. This new system detects and classifies defects generated in the semiconductor manufacturing process and has newly designed electron microscope optics fitted with multiple […]