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For three days, high-quality laboratory equipment and the latest analysis devices were the focus of the third analytica Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. 114 exhibitors from ten countries presented their exhibits to more than 3,400 trade visitors. The content in the program of related events, ...
21-12-2012
The CF2000 Series for high-resolution separation and fractionation of nanoparticles, from Postnova Analytics, has won the GIT Innovations Award 2012 in the category ‘Analytical Instrumentation and Software’. The Postnova team are the inventors of the Field-Flow Fractionation (FFF) technique, ...
14-12-2012
Thermo Fisher Scientific announced an enhanced method to separate anthocyanins in cranberry and bilberry extracts with increased speed and reduced solvent consumption per analysis as compared to a previously developed method. Application Note (AN) 1042: Rapid Separation of Anthocyanins in ...
Agilent Technologies Opens PicoCafé
29-11-2012
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the launch of its online Pico Café, an interactive web community created exclusively for atomic force microscope users. Agilent AFM users from around the world are invited to visit the new PicoCafé to share original script programming and ...
A room full of electronics - from QTM A to LAS 4.2
05-11-2012
Fifty years ago the development of modern image analysis began. These early systems used to fill a whole room with electronics, very different from today’s elegant, distinctive desktop set-up. In 1962, the first automated system for the analysis of microscope images was developed by the ...
16-10-2012
Robert J. Lefkowitz from Duke University, along with Brian Kobilka from Stanford University, were just awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research and discovery of the receptor protein that binds to adrenaline, that is the beta-adrenergic receptor. A receptor protein crosses ...
09-10-2012
In support of expanding global demand, Malvern Instruments is rapidly increasing its provision of multilanguage webcasts. In the latest posting, researchers across the world can now download a two-part foundation presentation covering rheology principles and applications, in eight different ...
New, Advanced Solar Energy Research and Testing Facility Drives Customers' Technology Development and Silicon-Based Innovation
26-09-2012
Dow Corning has expanded its Solar Solutions Lab in the China Business and Technology Center (CBTC) with cutting-edge photovoltaic (PV) research and testing capabilities that support the emerging needs of customers in Greater China. At the Solar Solutions Lab in the CBTC, Dow Corning will ...
New method holds promise to advance personalised medicine
02-08-2012
The scientists Jochen Hoffmann, Dr. Guenther Roth, and Prof. Dr. Roland Zengerle from the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg can copy simultaneously 100.000 different DNA sequences in a so called picowell array that has the size of a one cent ...
Scanning X-ray microscope reaches record resolution of 10 nanometres
30-07-2012
A novel X-ray microscope at DESY offers the world's sharpest X-ray vision: Thanks to the extraordinary brilliance of DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, this microscope is able to resolve details as small as ten nanometres – which is about ten thousand times thinner than a human hair. Only few ...
