Grace opens Discovery Sciences Technical Center in Shanghai

15-Mar-2006 - W. R. Grace & Co. announced that it will open a technical services laboratory in Shanghai, China for its Grace Davison Discovery Sciences product group, significantly improving the company's ability to support life sciences R&D across Asia. Technical personnel in the new facility will primarily ...

2006 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize awarded for theory that explains properties of materials

10-Mar-2006 - Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that the European Physical Society (EPS) has awarded the 2006 Agilent Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Condensed Matter Physics to four scientists for their development and application of the Dynamical Mean Field Theory, which explains ...

PerkinElmer Expands Presence in China with New Technology Center in Shanghai

23-Feb-2006 - PerkinElmer Inc. announced the opening of a new technology center in Shanghai, China, that will expand the company's presence in that country and consolidate three current Shanghai locations. The center will bring together PerkinElmer's sales, service, customer care and technology support ...

Cornell scientists build 'nano-keys' to bind cell receptors and trigger allergic reactions

21-Feb-2006 - Cornell University researchers have fabricated a set of "nano-keys" on the same scale as molecules to interact with receptors on cell membranes and trigger larger-scale responses within cells, such as the release of histamines in an allergic response. This was reported by Barbara Baird, Cornell ...

Affymetrix Appoints Robert Trice to Board of Directors

17-Feb-2006 - Affymetrix Inc. announced that Robert H. Trice, Ph.D., senior vice president for business development at Lockheed Martin Corporation and chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Global Inc., has been elected to the company's board of directors. Trice is currently responsible for worldwide new ...

Protedyne Corporation Appoints Fran Tuttle President and CEO

Rolf Classon Elected Chairman of the Board

08-Feb-2006 - Protedyne Corporation announced that Fran Tuttle has joined the company as President and Chief Executive Officer and will also join the company's Board of Directors. Protedyne also announced that Rolf Classon has been elected Chairman of the Board. Classon has served on Protedyne's Board of ...

Bruker AXS Completes Acquisition of SOCABIM

Expansion of Core X-ray Technology Base

19-Jan-2006 - Bruker AXS GmbH announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately-held SOCABIM SAS, a company focused on advanced X-ray analysis software for materials research. This acquisition was originally announced on August 16, 2005, and was expected to close early in 2006. The acquisition of ...

Fixing by Filtration

New testing strips for detecting heavy metals

09-Jan-2006 - Many heavy metals are toxic to the environment or to humans. Legal limits for these pollutants in drinking water and run-off are thus correspondingly low. Rapid on-the-spot analysis and routine water quality tests demand a rapid, cost-effective method that doesn't require complex instruments. ...

New 'self-exploding' microcapsules could take sting out of drug delivery

04-Jan-2006 - Belgian chemists have developed "self-exploding" microcapsules that could one day precisely release drugs and vaccines inside the human body weeks or even months after injection. The study, by researchers at Ghent University and the Universite Catholique de Louvain, is scheduled to appear in the ...

ChemAxon Announces Free Cheminformatics Toolkit Provision for Non-Commercial Freely Accessible Web Resources

03-Jan-2006 - ChemAxon announced the launch of the "FreeWeb" package to provide its chemical editing, viewing, search, property calculation and database management toolkits at no cost to freely accessible web resources being operated for non-commercial purposes. In addition to unlimited licenses, upgrades and ...