DOLOMITE says its pressure-driven resealable chip interface enables tool-free assembly of glass, quartz or polymer resealable microfluidic chips, allowing the user to deposit reagents, sensors, biosensors or cells onto the chip base layer for exposure to the fluid stream. The…
Month: November 2014
Benchtop spectrometers ‘outperform’ in light-element analysis
PANALYTICAL says the combination of the latest excitation and detection technologies means that its upgraded Epsilon 3X benchtop X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers can match or even surp[ass the performance of more powerful instruments for the detection of light elements. The…
Light microscope as ‘fast and efficient’ alternative to SEM
IN DETAILED studies for a heritage conservation project, researchers at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have found that high-resolution optical microscopy can be as powerful as scanning electron microscopy (SEM). This is the claim made by Olympus, whose DSX500…
Venter to deliver keynote at Synbiobeta SF 2014
SYNBIOBETA has announced that bio-pioneer Craig Venter will be the keynote speaker at the 3rd Annual SynBioBeta SF 2014 conference, to be held 13-15 November 2014 at Mission Bay Conference Center. Venter founded and leads the J Craig Venter Institute…
Map spectral responses across microscopic surfaces
CRAIC Technologies says the Spectral Surface Mapping (S2M) capabilities of its UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometers gives users the ability to map the spectral responses across of surfaces of their samples, point-by-point. With microscopic spatial resolution, surface profiles can be created using UV-visible-NIR…
Bio-Rad resolves corruption issues with US government
BIO-RAD Laboratories has announced the full resolution of previously-disclosed investigations by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into past violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) that occurred from 2005 to 2010 related…
New cleanroom for NIT France
NEW Imaging Technologies has inaugurated its new clean room facility at Verrières-le-Buisson, France. The company, known as NIT, says it has invested almost 500,000 euro in the ISO 4-standard clean room. Together with its full range of inspection equipment, the…