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Carl Zeiss opens new customer office in South Korea

02-03-2012 Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities. "We are significant ... more

New technology allows scientists to watch cancer cells in action at unprecedented resolution

02-03-2012 A photograph of a polar bear in captivity, no matter how sharp the resolution, can never reveal as much about behavior as footage of that polar bear in its natural habitat. The behavior of cells and molecules can prove even more elusive. Limitations in biomedical imaging technologies have h ... more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Awarded Patent for Cell Factory System

02-02-2012 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has been awarded a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on its Thermo Scientific Nunc Cell Factory System with Active Gassing, recognizing the device’s unique gas distribution system. Developed for cells that require a high ... more

Takara Bio Europe Goes Direct in 2012

02-02-2012 Takara Bio Europe announced that it will start selling its range of Takara brand products exclusively and directly to customers in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with immediate effect. The decision means customers will be able to buy both Takara and Clontech brand products from o ... more

Photonics Innovation Award for WITec

02-02-2012 WITec has just received the Photonics Prism Award 2011 for the development of TrueSurfaceTM Microscopy. This internationally respected product innovation award recognizes cutting-edge products that break conventional ideas and improve life through photonics and is presented each year by SPI ... more

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Photonics Innovation Award for WITec

02-02-2012 WITec has just received the Photonics Prism Award 2011 for the development of TrueSurfaceTM Microscopy. This internationally respected product innovation award recognizes cutting-edge products that break conventional ideas and improve life through photonics and is presented each year by SPI ... more

Hamilton Storage Technologies Breaks Ground on New Headquarters Facility

02-01-2012 Hamilton Storage Technologies announced that it has broken ground on a new 52,000-square-foot facility in Franklin, Mass., more than quadrupling its space. The facility will serve as the East Coast hub for Hamilton Company.According to Matt Hamilton, vice president, the new facility will ho ... more

Guinness World Record: X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie

02-01-2012 It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg. In its 2012 edition, the famous Guinness Book of World Records lists an interval of a mere 50 femtoseconds between two frames for FLASH. A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second, meaning that the t ... more

The first atomic X-ray laser

01-27-2012 A group of scientists headed by Nina Rohringer from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) realized the first X-ray laser based on atoms at the Californian research centre SLAC. Using neon atoms, they generated ultra-short X-ray bursts of unique colour purity. In many cas ... more

World's best metronome enables slow-motion pictures of atoms and molecules

01-26-2012 The world's most accurate metronome keeps stroke to an incredible 10 quintillionth of a second. The device enables slow-motion pictures from the world of molecules and atoms, scientists from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) in Hamburg, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institu ... more

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Carl Zeiss opens new customer office in South Korea

02-03-2012 Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities. "We are significant ... more

The smallest conceivable switch

12-15-2011 For a long time miniaturization has been the magic word in electronics. Dr. Willi Auwaerter and Professor Johannes Barth, together with their team of physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), have now presented a novel molecular switch in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. D ... more

Charge separation in a molecule consisting of two identical atoms

11-29-2011 Physicists from the University of Stuttgart show the first experimental proof of a molecule consisting of two identical atoms that exhibits a permanent electric dipole moment. This observation contradicts the classical opinion described in many physics and chemistry textbooks. A dipolar mol ... more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Names Winner of 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry

11-21-2011 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced the winner of the 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry, Dr. J. Sabine Becker, head of Trace and UltraTrace Analysis, Central Division of Analytical Chemistry at the Research Center Juelich, Germany. The award, which honors scientist ... more

New analytical method for detecting the mineral oil contents in foodstuffs resulting from recycled cardboard

10-31-2011 On 22 and 23 September 2011, about 400 representatives from the worlds of science, business and society as well as politics and government institutions discussed how food packaging made of recycled paper could be made safer. Two years ago, mineral oil contents classified as dangerous to hea ... more

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Awarded Patent for Cell Factory System

02-02-2012 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has been awarded a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on its Thermo Scientific Nunc Cell Factory System with Active Gassing, recognizing the device’s unique gas distribution system. Developed for cells that require a high ... more

Takara Bio Europe Goes Direct in 2012

02-02-2012 Takara Bio Europe announced that it will start selling its range of Takara brand products exclusively and directly to customers in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with immediate effect. The decision means customers will be able to buy both Takara and Clontech brand products from o ... more

Hamilton Storage Technologies Breaks Ground on New Headquarters Facility

02-01-2012 Hamilton Storage Technologies announced that it has broken ground on a new 52,000-square-foot facility in Franklin, Mass., more than quadrupling its space. The facility will serve as the East Coast hub for Hamilton Company.According to Matt Hamilton, vice president, the new facility will ho ... more

Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Refine Technology Announce Cooperation

01-25-2012 Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) and Refine Technology (Refine) will be collaborating on the development of a robust platform for high-density cell cultivation. This platform will enable fast, easy connection of the ATF System to SSB’s single-use BIOSTAT® bioreactors.This joint development pr ... more

WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen GmbH & Co. KG: Changes in the Management

01-12-2012 Konrad Kreuzer is leaving WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen GmbH & Co. KG. Konrad Kreuzer had been managing the company since 2003 as its sales manager. Managers Jürgen Liebsch and Peter Wanner will now manage WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen GmbH & Co. KG together with Helmut Hirner, CEO. The duties an ... more

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Sartorius closes 2010 with strong gains in sales revenue and earnings

02-09-2011 Sartorius successfully closed the year 2010. Sales revenue and earnings substantially surpassed the year-earlier figures. Financial guidance for the Group, which was raised during the course of 2010, was met and even exceeded for some targets. For the current fiscal year as well, manage ... more

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Porvair Filtration Report Strong Gain in 2011

08-30-2011 Porvair Filtration Group, specialists in media and equipment for filtration and separation applications, has announced a strong increase in sales for the first half of fiscal year 2011. This growth is reflected in the half yearly results reported by parent company - Porvair plc for its mic ... more

New online guide through the research maze

07-14-2011 By adding a comprehensive directory of research societies and institutions, universities, industry associations and public authorities, CHEMIE.DE Information Service® has expanded its scope of information for the chemical, biotech, pharma and analytics industries on its internet portals che ... more

Fermentation research groups start the worldwide research challenge “BlueCompetition”

07-13-2011 The project phase of the international scientific challenge “BlueCompetition” organized by BlueSens Gas Sensor GmbH is about to begin. The company received project proposals from research groups in universities throughout the world. An independent international scientific jury has selected ... more

Pfeiffer Vacuum: Q3 the best quarter in the company’s history

11-04-2010 Pfeiffer Vacuum closed the month of September with the best quarter ever in its corporate history. This also produced above-average developments for the first nine months. All metrics posted significant, double-digit growth rates. Pfeiffer Vacuum Chief Executive Officer Manfred Bender had ... more

Oil change due? Optimal date is to be determined during normal operation

04-16-2010 If lubricants and hydraulic fluids in construction machines, airplanes or industrial installations are used too long, gears and other components can be heavily damaged. On the other hand, each oil change especially for large equipment is time consuming and expensive. Engineers at Saarland U ... more

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