Agilent Technologies to Acquire Varian, Inc. for $1.5 Billion

03-Aug-2009 - Agilent Technologies Inc. and Varian, Inc. announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition by Agilent of Varian. Agilent will pay $52 cash per share of common stock for Varian in a transaction that represents a premium of approximately 35% to Varian’s closing price on ...

Caltech physicists create first nanoscale mass spectrometer

Device can instantly measure the mass of an individual molecule

27-Jul-2009 - Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time. The mass of molecules is traditionally measured using mass spectrometry, in which samples consisting of ...

New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments

16-Jul-2009 - They've been dubbed "grassoline" – second generation biofuels made from inedible plant material, including fast-growing weeds, agricultural waste, sawdust, etc. – and numerous scientific studies have shown them to be prime candidates for replacing gasoline to meet our transportation needs. ...

Malvern’s Dr E Neil Lewis is this year’s ACS Anachem Award winner

18-Jun-2009 - Malvern Instruments’ Technical Director, Dr E Neil Lewis is to be presented with the prestigious Anachem Award by the Detroit Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at this year’s Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) conference (October 18 - 22, 2009, ...

Cornell professor gets anti-doping grant to detect steroid use in athletes

05-Jun-2009 - J. Thomas Brenna, Cornell professor of nutritional sciences, has a new task: to find better ways to detect steroids in urine to improve drug testing of athletes for performance-enhancing substances. The Partnership for Clean Competition, a research collaborative founded last year by the National ...

PerkinElmer Acquires Analytica of Branford, Inc.

Investment Enhances Mass Spectrometry Portfolio & Expertise

15-May-2009 - PerkinElmer, Inc. has acquired Analytica of Branford, Inc. The acquisition is an integral part of PerkinElmer's strategic commitment to continue to grow its human and environmental health portfolio. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. With the completion of this acquisition, PerkinElmer ...

Discovery of an unexpected boost for solar water-splitting cells

27-Apr-2009 - A research team from Northeastern University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has discovered, serendipitously, that a residue of a process used to build arrays of titania nanotubes - a residue that wasn’t even noticed before this - plays an important role in improving ...

Poisons under control

The difficult search for dangerous mycotoxins

24-Mar-2009 - Do you know how many moulds are in a slice of bread? And has it occured to you whether these moulds pose a danger? BAM's experts are carrying out research into this topic and have developed an analytical method to detect the toxic metabolic compounds of moulds. Moulds, and more than 300 species ...

National Physical Laboratory to Evaluate NanoSight

17-Mar-2009 - The UK’s national metrology institute, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), is commencing a one-year evaluation program of NanoSight’s nanoparticle characterization technology, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA). The program takes the form of a Joint Industry Project, funded in part by ...

Agilent Technologies and Markes form Global Thermal Desorption GC, GC/MS Collaboration

03-Mar-2009 - Agilent Technologies, Inc. and Markes International Limited announced a strategic alliance for global distribution and market development of analytical thermal desorption (TD) instruments used with gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) systems. Analytical TD ...