CHN microanalysis is a key analytical technique for determining whether or not a sample is pure by providing a precise and accurate analysis of its percentage Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen content and comparing the result versus theoretical figures.
Drawing upon over 25 years experience in the technique, Exeter Analytical Inc. has produced a video that provides an informed and easy-to-understand introduction to accurate determination of Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen by CHN microanalysis....
Zinc Ahead is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Naimoli as Vice President of US Operations.
Michael brings a wide range of experience to Zinc having worked in senior level positions for both pharmaceutical companies as well as industry leading software providers. Most recently, Michael served as Global Vice President, Life Sciences Industry Business Unit, for SAP where he was responsible for the direction and management of new offerings for the life sciences industry. Prior to that, Michael served as ...
Spectris plc, the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that it has acquired the business and assets of the Canadian company La Corporation Scientifique Claisse Inc. (‘Claisse’), a global market leader in sample preparation for atomic spectroscopy (including X-ray) analysis, for an undisclosed sum.
Revenues for the year ending March 2014 were CAD 13 million. Claisse designs, manufactures and sells consumables and instruments used to prepare consistent and comparable samples for spectroscopic analysis in mining, pharmaceutical, academic research and industrial applications. Claisse will become part of the Materials Analysis segment and will be integrated into PANalytical, combining two leaders in fusion and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis...
Having traded as ELGA Process Water for over a decade with Veolia as a parent, the company now feels that it is in a strong position to fully rebrand as Veolia Water Technologies.
This is part of an overall rebranding of Veolia Environnement, which will be known simply as ‘Veolia’ and will represent the three business activities of water, waste and energy. Veolia Water Technologies covers all aspects of the water cycle, from abstraction and treatment of water for potable supply through high purity water for industry and healthcare to wastewater recovery. Becoming part of one Veolia will allow us to build on existing strengths, namely, consistently meeting customer requirements and...
Eppendorf has launched a new, updated version of its UK website, combining its existing eShop with a comprehensive library of product information.
Customers can now access everything they need to make informed purchase decisions on the complete range of Eppendorf premium laboratory products. Visitors to the site can order free consumables samples, take advantage of current promotional offers, and access valuable service and customer support such as the Eppendorf epServices offering – all from within a single, easy to navigate location...
Representatives will set up a local presence in Boston.
Global Care Initiative (GCI), a consortium of five leading non-profit French research institutes, today announces that it will have a representative in the US, in Boston, Massachusetts. This new presence in Boston will provide better accessibility to American partners. Global Care combines strong skillsets, recognized IP and unique technology platforms in their offering. The consortium functions as a one-stop shop to life sciences companies and research organizations that seek effective R&D partnerships.....
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a high-performance liquid chromatography method to determine 20 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in environmental waters using on-line solid-phase extraction (SPE) for sample preparation.
This approach moves the off-line sample preparation procedures of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Methods 550 and 550.1 on line to save time and labor. Application Note (AN) 1085: Sensitive and Rapid Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Tap Water demonstrates reduced method detection limits for ultraviolet and fluorescence detections, thus enabling a convenient method for determination of PAHs in environmental and drinking water...
Read MoreKromek Group - Contract WinsJul 3, 2014
Nuclear detection and Breast Cancer imaging technology (“Kromek” or “the Company”)
Kromek, a supplier of patented radiation detection technologies to the medical, security and nuclear markets, is pleased to announce that it has signed a number of further contracts, in the Nuclear Detection and Medical markets. Nuclear Detection: Kromek has been awarded a contract with the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (“DTRA”) for the design, manufacture and optimisation of high sensitivity, next generation, solid state detectors for the homeland security radiation detection market. The contract is worth $1.45 million to Kromek over the next two years and...
Nano-Raman performed with tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), and especially nano-Raman imaging, still has the reputation of being a difficult measurement.
Last week, to demonstrate that this can now be performed under regular conditions, the HORIBA team has set up a “XploRA nano” system on a standard optical table running without air damping. TERS imaging was perform without any trouble even when visitors were stopping by to discuss the technique with the team. “Thanks to our unique integrated solution with AIST-NT (Novato, CA, USA), using tuning fork TERS probes manufactured by HORIBA and...
VolitionRx Limited (OTCQB: VNRX), a life sciences company, today announces its first wholesale order of NuQ® Research Use Only kits to Active Motif. Each kit allows epigenetics researchers to identify and analyze a different nucleosome structure.
Active Motif will distribute the kits in its key markets of Europe, the United States and Japan. These assays allow researchers – in areas as diverse as stem cells, apoptosis and epigenetic regulation – to study nucleosome based epigenetic features in animal or human cell culture samples. The four different types of kits which will be available through Active Motif are...
QImaging's optiMOS Scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera for fluorescence microscopy has won aLaboratory Equipment Readers' Choice Award in the "Optics & Image Analyzers" category. Award entries were evaluated and voted on by a panel of Laboratory Equipment readers and selected by the magazine's editors.
"The optiMOS sCMOS camera is a budget-friendly CCD alternative that gives cell biologists the performance they need to capture rapid cellular dynamics without the data management hassles typically associated with digital microscopy," said Chris Ryan, QImaging's product manager. "We are honored to have Laboratory Equipment'sreaders recognize our product's achievements."
TTP Labtech, an employee-owned life science company based near Cambridge, UK, has reported an impressive 43% increase in revenues and an associated increase in profits over 2013.
Most of this growth is based on the strength of TTP Labtech’s core products in the areas of cell imaging, liquid handling and sample management. In particular mirrorball® and comPOUND® saw an accelerated growth of over 300%. “We have a team of passionate, talented and dedicated individuals behind each product and a collaborative relationship with our customers – something that differentiates us from other...
UK-based contract research organisation Onyx Scientific is set to make a significant investment into continuous flow manufacturing to allow its customers to explore alternatives during product research and development programs.
The chemistry specialist, which excels in pre-clinical development projects, has decided to adopt a more novel approach to manufacturing API in a bid to overcome the often time-consuming and costly process of batch manufacturing. Denise Bowser, commercial director at Onyx Scientific, said: “The move to continuous flow manufacturing has been seen by a handful of companies in the sector to date so we feel that we are very much at the forefront of technological advances when it comes to...
TAP Biosystems (now part of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group), a leading supplier of innovative cell culture and fermentation systems for life science applications, today announced that it will be presenting a new process development webinar on Wednesday July 2nd 2014 at 9am and 4pm BST.
The live event will detail how to use the ambr250 high-throughput, fully automated bioreactor system to speed up upstream fermentation and bioprocess development of protein-based therapeutics, vaccines and industrial enzymes. Bioprocessing expert, Mwai Ngibuini, ambr250 Product Manager at TAP Biosystems, will present technical results from researchers using ambr250 to show how the system can be used at high-throughput to develop and...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on how the LabSpec Vis-NIR portable spectrometer from PANalytical Boulder (formerly ASD Inc) is being used to study historic materials.
Analytik have supplied LabSpec Vis-NIR spectrometers in the world of heritage research where non-destructive identification of materials is vital both in terms of preservation and restoration. Systems are in use in museums, galleries, libraries and historic properties where applications include the dating of historic parchments and the analysis of pigments on manuscripts. Dr Craig Kennedy is a senior lecturer in the School of the...
Temperature control professional expands his international distribution network
JULABO has recently opened another subsidiary in Boven-Leeuwen close to Nijmegen in the Netherlands. With this new addition, JULABO is now closer to its Dutch customers to offer direct consulting and support. JULABO Netherlands´ customers and partners will have access to JULABO’s entire product and service portfolio. The new subsidiary team has started their work in modern offices, and service and storage facilities...
Delivering highly diverse coverage of drug-like chemical space in a single library
A new highly diverse library of screening compounds is designed to maximize efficiency and productivity for researchers in early phase small molecule drug discovery. By delivering exceptionally diverse coverage of the space spanned by all possible drug-like molecules and associated characteristics, the Maybridge HitCreator library provides a greater hit probability than larger, but less diverse, screening libraries...
The businesses who took part sought over EUR 230 million in funding and met a range of high-level industry representatives and investors. As a part of France-China 50, the Forum attracted high-level experts and introduced a new series of open sessions for the general public...
As protein-based drugs become more important in treating major diseases, producers face the critical challenge of deeply characterizing these highly-complex molecules for efficacy and safety, as well as to meet quality requirements.
Now there’s a new software tool designed to increase the speed, quality and confidence in comprehensive biotherapeutic protein characterization useful for drug development and production quality control. Thermo Scientific PepFinder software is making its debut at the 62nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, booth 127, and at the company’s hospitality suite: Holiday, Baltimore Hilton. PepFinder software is designed to...
The UK’s University of Leeds Electron Microscopy and Spectrocopy Centre (LEMAS), internationally renowned as a leading research centre in microscopic and spectroscopic characterisation, has extended its electron microscopy capability by installing the first of a new generation of high performance cold field emission SEMs.
The Hitachi SU8230 at Leeds is the first SEM in Europe to utilise the latest high stability CFE technology and will be used for nanomaterial characterisation in pharmaceutical, catalysis and energy applications. Ultra-low voltage capabilities, including low-loss BSE imaging, will provide information on the true-surface and electrical properties of materials at nanoscale resolution. Being equipped with angle-selective BF and DF STEM, the SU8230 will enable correlative studies with TEM, especially on...
A new brochure from Malvern Instruments details the range of detectors available for Gel Permeation/Size Exclusion Chromatography (GPC/SEC).
It also provides scientists with the background required to choose the detector array most appropriate to maximizing information flow and experimental productivity. Available as standalone units, or as part of a fully integrated Viscotek multi-detection GPC/SEC system, Malvern’s GPC/SEC detectors provide highly accurate analysis of polymer and protein macromolecular features, such as molecular weight, and combine to offer advanced insight into molecular structure...
Better Buildings Alliance Laboratories Team Demonstrates Stirling Ultracold Energy Savings of 66% over Average Ultra-Low Freezer Power Consumption
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has released preliminary results of an independent study of comparative ultra-low temperature freezer performance confirming significant energy reduction of the Stirling Ultracold ultra-low freezer in side-by-side evaluations with top competitors. The study was commissioned by the Better Buildings Alliance Laboratories and performed for the DOE by Navigant Consulting...
Michael brings a wide range of experience to Zinc having worked in senior level positions for both pharmaceutical companies as well as industry leading software providers. Most recently, Michael served as Global Vice President, Life Sciences Industry Business Unit, for SAP where he was responsible for the direction and management of new offerings for the life sciences industry. Prior to that, Michael served as ...
Revenues for the year ending March 2014 were CAD 13 million. Claisse designs, manufactures and sells consumables and instruments used to prepare consistent and comparable samples for spectroscopic analysis in mining, pharmaceutical, academic research and industrial applications. Claisse will become part of the Materials Analysis segment and will be integrated into PANalytical, combining two leaders in fusion and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis...
This is part of an overall rebranding of Veolia Environnement, which will be known simply as ‘Veolia’ and will represent the three business activities of water, waste and energy. Veolia Water Technologies covers all aspects of the water cycle, from abstraction and treatment of water for potable supply through high purity water for industry and healthcare to wastewater recovery. Becoming part of one Veolia will allow us to build on existing strengths, namely, consistently meeting customer requirements and...
Customers can now access everything they need to make informed purchase decisions on the complete range of Eppendorf premium laboratory products. Visitors to the site can order free consumables samples, take advantage of current promotional offers, and access valuable service and customer support such as the Eppendorf epServices offering – all from within a single, easy to navigate location...
Global Care Initiative (GCI), a consortium of five leading non-profit French research institutes, today announces that it will have a representative in the US, in Boston, Massachusetts. This new presence in Boston will provide better accessibility to American partners. Global Care combines strong skillsets, recognized IP and unique technology platforms in their offering. The consortium functions as a one-stop shop to life sciences companies and research organizations that seek effective R&D partnerships.....
Kromek, a supplier of patented radiation detection technologies to the medical, security and nuclear markets, is pleased to announce that it has signed a number of further contracts, in the Nuclear Detection and Medical markets. Nuclear Detection: Kromek has been awarded a contract with the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (“DTRA”) for the design, manufacture and optimisation of high sensitivity, next generation, solid state detectors for the homeland security radiation detection market. The contract is worth $1.45 million to Kromek over the next two years and...
Last week, to demonstrate that this can now be performed under regular conditions, the HORIBA team has set up a “XploRA nano” system on a standard optical table running without air damping. TERS imaging was perform without any trouble even when visitors were stopping by to discuss the technique with the team. “Thanks to our unique integrated solution with AIST-NT (Novato, CA, USA), using tuning fork TERS probes manufactured by HORIBA and...
Active Motif will distribute the kits in its key markets of Europe, the United States and Japan. These assays allow researchers – in areas as diverse as stem cells, apoptosis and epigenetic regulation – to study nucleosome based epigenetic features in animal or human cell culture samples. The four different types of kits which will be available through Active Motif are...
"The optiMOS sCMOS camera is a budget-friendly CCD alternative that gives cell biologists the performance they need to capture rapid cellular dynamics without the data management hassles typically associated with digital microscopy," said Chris Ryan, QImaging's product manager. "We are honored to have Laboratory Equipment'sreaders recognize our product's achievements."
Most of this growth is based on the strength of TTP Labtech’s core products in the areas of cell imaging, liquid handling and sample management. In particular mirrorball® and comPOUND® saw an accelerated growth of over 300%. “We have a team of passionate, talented and dedicated individuals behind each product and a collaborative relationship with our customers – something that differentiates us from other...
The chemistry specialist, which excels in pre-clinical development projects, has decided to adopt a more novel approach to manufacturing API in a bid to overcome the often time-consuming and costly process of batch manufacturing. Denise Bowser, commercial director at Onyx Scientific, said: “The move to continuous flow manufacturing has been seen by a handful of companies in the sector to date so we feel that we are very much at the forefront of technological advances when it comes to...
The live event will detail how to use the ambr250 high-throughput, fully automated bioreactor system to speed up upstream fermentation and bioprocess development of protein-based therapeutics, vaccines and industrial enzymes. Bioprocessing expert, Mwai Ngibuini, ambr250 Product Manager at TAP Biosystems, will present technical results from researchers using ambr250 to show how the system can be used at high-throughput to develop and...
Analytik have supplied LabSpec Vis-NIR spectrometers in the world of heritage research where non-destructive identification of materials is vital both in terms of preservation and restoration. Systems are in use in museums, galleries, libraries and historic properties where applications include the dating of historic parchments and the analysis of pigments on manuscripts. Dr Craig Kennedy is a senior lecturer in the School of the...
JULABO has recently opened another subsidiary in Boven-Leeuwen close to Nijmegen in the Netherlands. With this new addition, JULABO is now closer to its Dutch customers to offer direct consulting and support. JULABO Netherlands´ customers and partners will have access to JULABO’s entire product and service portfolio. The new subsidiary team has started their work in modern offices, and service and storage facilities...
A new highly diverse library of screening compounds is designed to maximize efficiency and productivity for researchers in early phase small molecule drug discovery. By delivering exceptionally diverse coverage of the space spanned by all possible drug-like molecules and associated characteristics, the Maybridge HitCreator library provides a greater hit probability than larger, but less diverse, screening libraries...
The businesses who took part sought over EUR 230 million in funding and met a range of high-level industry representatives and investors. As a part of France-China 50, the Forum attracted high-level experts and introduced a new series of open sessions for the general public...
Now there’s a new software tool designed to increase the speed, quality and confidence in comprehensive biotherapeutic protein characterization useful for drug development and production quality control. Thermo Scientific PepFinder software is making its debut at the 62nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, booth 127, and at the company’s hospitality suite: Holiday, Baltimore Hilton. PepFinder software is designed to...
The Hitachi SU8230 at Leeds is the first SEM in Europe to utilise the latest high stability CFE technology and will be used for nanomaterial characterisation in pharmaceutical, catalysis and energy applications. Ultra-low voltage capabilities, including low-loss BSE imaging, will provide information on the true-surface and electrical properties of materials at nanoscale resolution. Being equipped with angle-selective BF and DF STEM, the SU8230 will enable correlative studies with TEM, especially on...
It also provides scientists with the background required to choose the detector array most appropriate to maximizing information flow and experimental productivity. Available as standalone units, or as part of a fully integrated Viscotek multi-detection GPC/SEC system, Malvern’s GPC/SEC detectors provide highly accurate analysis of polymer and protein macromolecular features, such as molecular weight, and combine to offer advanced insight into molecular structure...
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has released preliminary results of an independent study of comparative ultra-low temperature freezer performance confirming significant energy reduction of the Stirling Ultracold ultra-low freezer in side-by-side evaluations with top competitors. The study was commissioned by the Better Buildings Alliance Laboratories and performed for the DOE by Navigant Consulting...