Promega and Leica Microsystems Sign Agreement to Develop Fluorescent Ligands Enabling Live Cell Imaging at the Sub 100 nm Range

15-Aug-2008 - Promega Corp. announced that it has signed an agreement with Leica Microsystems to enable fluorescent imaging of proteins in live cells. Under the terms of the agreement, Promega will develop fluorescent ligands for its HaloTag fusion proteins, that will be used to label proteins within live ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Ranked World's Leading Vendor in Infrared Spectroscopy

14-Aug-2008 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. received the highest overall vendor rating for infrared (IR) spectroscopy instrumentation according to the Worldwide Molecular Spectroscopy Survey published by Strategic Directions International (SDi) Inc in July 2008. The primary factors for selection of an IR ...

Joint venture for Malvern Instruments in fast-growing Indian market

14-Aug-2008 - A joint venture between Malvern Instruments and Aimil, Malvern's long-term distribution partner in India, has resulted in the establishment of Malvern Aimil Instruments Pvt Ltd. The joint venture will be headquartered in Mumbai, but staff will operate from all eight offices across India, ...

CERN announces start-up date for LHC

11-Aug-2008 - CERN has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up will be made ...

'Edible optics' could make food safer

Tufts researchers design bio-friendly optical platform for sensing applications in medicine, health, environment, communications

11-Aug-2008 - Imagine an edible optical sensor that could be placed in produce bags to detect harmful levels of bacteria and consumed right along with the veggies. Or an implantable device that would monitor glucose in your blood for a year, then dissolve. Scientists at Tufts University's School of ...

Electronic tongue tastes wine variety, vintage

Rapid, portable detection of wine composition could preserve quality and stop fraud

06-Aug-2008 - You don't need a wine expert to identify a '74 Pinot Noir from Burgundy - a handheld "electronic tongue" devised by European scientists will tell you the grape variety and vintage at the press of a button. Designed for quality control in the field, the device is made up of six sensors which ...

Arsenic-containing lipids in fish oil

01-Aug-2008 - Scientists have identified a novel group of arsenic-containing compounds in fish oil that may have an unusual biosynthetic origin. Kevin Francesconi at Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria, and colleagues found three arsenic-containing lipids in the oil from capelin fish found in the North ...

Vogelbusch: Patent application for the optimisation of a chromatographic separation process

01-Aug-2008 - Vogelbusch GmbH has applied for a patent for a highly-efficient chromatographic separation principle. The process adapts the separation process known as "simulated moving bed" to the specific needs of pharmaceutical companies. A prototype was presented to an audience of experts for the first time ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires FIBERLite Centrifuge, Inc.

Acquisition Reinforces Thermo Fisher's Portfolio of Laboratory Centrifuge Rotors

29-Jul-2008 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has acquired FIBERLite Centrifuge, Inc., of Santa Clara, California, supplier of carbon fiber centrifuge rotors. "We have been offering FIBERLite rotors as an alternative to aluminum and titanium rotors in our Thermo Scientific laboratory ...

A Phonon Floodgate in Monolayer Carbon

The first STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises

24-Jul-2008 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of graphene flakes equipped with a "gate" electrode. The result is the latest in a series of ...