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.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a new cutting-edge facility in Runcorn, Cheshire.
NASA plans to utilize laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) instrumentation on the next Mars Rover, PEWPEW.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. will be the premier sponsor for the inaugural Applied Pharmaceutical Analysis (APA) conference to be hosted in India.
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.
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.
In a move that should interest all spectroscopists involved in pharmaceutical research, the USP proposed new chapters on elemental impurities last week.
A device based on mass spectrometry could help surgeons identify cancerous tissue during surgical procedures, according to a study published in Angewandte Chemie German Chemical Society.
Working on a site in a cave in southeastern Armenia, an archeological expedition claims they have found the remains of the world?s oldest human brain. They believe it is over 5,000 years old.
Data from NASA's high-resolution ICESat lasers indicate that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica are melting faster than scientists thought.
HORIBA has announced the construction of a new research facility and European headquarters on the campus of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France.
Rigaku Corporation has announced the formation of Applied Rigaku Technologies.
NASA has released the latest photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, which was updated with new equipment on a recent shuttle mission.
Analyze IQ Limited, producers of innovative spectroscopic analysis software, and Ocean Optics Inc., the industry leader in miniature spectroscopy, have today announced a partnership under which Ocean Optics will market and sell the Analyze IQ software suite.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland) have developed a highly sensitive, low-cost NIR spectroscopy technique that can measure the specific wavelengths used in telecommunications as well as single-photon levels of infrared light given off by fragile biomaterials and nanomaterials.
Scientists from IBM Research used an atomic force microscope to create the first-ever close-up image of a single molecule.
PerkinElmer announced that it has signed a new distribution agreement with VWR International.
Researchers from Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago used a form of optical emission spectroscopy to determine the metal composition of 62 modern sculptures.
Newport Spectra-Physics continued its support of student researchers with the awarding of Newport Spectra-Physics Research Excellence travel grants at SPIE Optics and Photonics earlier this month in San Diego.
CAMO Software, a leading supplier of multivariate analysis (MVA) and design of experiments (DoE) software, announced its planned integration into the ABB xPAT platform to further strengthen its position in the growing areas of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Quality by Design (QbD).
NASA scientists have detected the amino acid glycine in samples of the comet Wild 2 gathered by the spacecraft Stardust.
Pittcon announced that Alan G. Marshall, Kasha Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) and director of the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, will be the plenary lecturer during the opening session on March 1 at Pittcon 2010.
LabVantage announced that it has completed the acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation's SQL*LIMS business.
Bruker Daltonics announced that it has established a collaboration with the Mass Spectrometry Resource laboratory at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Researchers at the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service (Manhattan, Kansas) conducted a pilot study at a commercial feedyard in which they used near-infrared spectroscopy to identify cattle with undifferentiated bovine respiratory disease (BRD), a leading cause of post-weaning bovine illness and death.
Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, California) has agreed to purchase Varian, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) for $1.5 billion or $52 per share.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed light-detecting fibers that act like a flexible camera when woven into a web.