32 Current news from china
rss04-17-2009
LGC Standards has opened its first office in Beijing, China. The new office will enable the company to bring its range of laboratory products and services to the Chinese market. LGC Standards provides a range of products and services for measurement and laboratory control encompassing ...
04-08-2009
A collaboration of scientists from various Beijing institutes, have made a pH-switchable, DNA-quantum dot hybrid that can also generate a photocurrent depending on the pH, allowing DNA to change conformation from a quadruplex to a double strand. Zhiyong Tang, Dongsheng Liu and colleagues ...
04-02-2009
A highly efficient, low driving-voltage, phosphorescent material for electroluminescence devices has been developed by scientists in Asia. Zhaomin Hou from RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan and colleagues from Jilin University, China, have synthesised an iridium complex with highly ...
03-20-2009
Andor Technology plc announces a strengthening of its position in the Chinese market with the first installations of its ‘Revolution’ confocal microscopy systems at universities in Hefei and Wuhan. Building on ten years of experience selling into China through its distribution channels, ...
03-13-2009
Ever since the Bronze Age, humans have experimented with combining different metals to create alloys with properties superior to either metal alone. But not all metals readily form alloys - for some pairs of elements the atoms are too dissimilar. Now researchers in an international team have ...
03-13-2009
AnaSpec, Inc. and BioPike, LLC announced a non-exclusive distributor agreement that will allow BioPike, LLC to distribute AnaSpec’s catalog and custom products throughout China. AnaSpec’s Director of Sales & Marketing, Violeta Rajkovska, noted, “AnaSpec is pleased to partner with BioPike, ...
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering has been used to probe single molecular behaviour by scientists in China and Sweden
01-28-2009
Probing single molecular behaviour using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SM-SERS) has attracted considerable attention recently, although there are a few drawbacks. One major problem is the strong spectral-fluctuation (also known as ‘signal-blinking’) that is associated with single ...
01-13-2009
Illumina announced that researchers at the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), Shenzhen are the first to complete de novo sequencing of the giant panda genome. A small team of scientists in one month produced 150 gigabases of sequence that was used to assemble the three gigabase genome ...
12-23-2008
Eurofins’ new food testing laboratory in Suzhou, near Shanghai, China is the first facility in that country to have developed capabilities for testing pesticides and melamine/cyanuric acid that are approved by and identical to the latest European standards of testing available at its ...
11-24-2008
Analytik Jena AG received at the beginning of the new fiscal year the acceptance of a contract for several CDC (Center for Disease Control and prevention) projects in China. In six provinces in China, Analytik Jena will provide analytical instruments. Overall, the German based producer of ...
