A Brazilian pluripotent stem cell research initiative will award eight university labs with $9.3 million grants over three years to create Cell Technology Centers. One such Center, the National Laboratory for Human Embryonic Cells (LaNCE), based at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of São Paulo will house a national stem […]

Company Announcements Setaram agreed to distribute HEL’s range of adiabatic calorimeters. Anton Paar GmbH opened an Indian subsidiary in Delhi, in January and a Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo in February, bringing its total number of subsidiaries to 12. The company posted sales of €108 million ($148 million) in 2007 and its rheometry orders rose 14% […]