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Thermo Fisher (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced today that it will acquire Dionex Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) for approximately $2.1 billion, a transaction that is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2011. Dionex will be integrated into the Scientific Instruments division of Thermo Fisher.

Pomegranates are loaded with antioxidants and millions of people turn to pomegranate juice for its many health benefits, but every time you take a sip from a bottle of the popular juice, how much of the actual fruit are you consuming?

Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) have been undergoing a series of studies to learn more about the creation of thin layers of highly ordered polymers and how spectroscopy and HPLC can be used to create organic and elastic electronics.

A team from the University of Calgary and the National Research Council Plant Biotechnology Institute has been studying the alkaloid metabolism process that commonly takes place in opium poppy cell cultures, using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC-MS)

A group of researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Texas at Dallas have created a hairbrush that is capable of monitoring brain function.

Researchers at McGill University in conjunction with Agriculture Canada and the pork industry have unveiled a new sophisticated new technique to determine which pieces of pork are the best in terms of quality.

Bruker Corporation has revealed the creation of a Chemical Analysis Division within its Bruker Daltonics subsidiary. This division will be headquartered in Fremont, California, USA...

AB SCIEX and its distribution partner Labindia Life Sciences are to supply the government of India with a food safety testing solution. This is part of a project with the Ministry of Agriculture to help reinforce new food safety standards through better monitoring for contamination.

Applied Research and Photonics (ARP) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) contractor SAIC-Frederick, Inc. have entered into a collaboration to assess a new technology - tetrahertz spectrometry - for analysis of structures and materials supporting biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

The Taiwan Bureau of Food and Drug Analysis has purchased and installed four Waters UPLC systems and nine tandem quadrupole mass spectrometers to support the bureau?s efforts to monitor the country?s domestically-produced and imported food supplies.

AB SCIEX has been launched as a new company dedicated to life science analytical technologies. The new company is formed from the combination of the two halves of the AB SCIEX mass spectrometry joint venture.

The acquisition of Varian by Agilent has cleared a key milestone, according to Agilent president and CEO Bill Sullivan. The companies have been granted conditional antitrust clearance from the European Commission for the deal.

It Really Is the Bubbles

According to a team of researchers with the Laboratory of Enology (wine studies) and Applied Chemistry, University of Reims Champagne?Ardenne, France, the bubbles present in champagne serve a greater purpose than merely popping corks.