Waters and Malvern Panalytical collaborate to improve polymer characterization

18-Jan-2018 - Waters Corporation announced that it entered into a co-marketing agreement with Malvern Panalytical to advance the analysis of polymers. By pairing the Waters ® ACQUITY ® Advanced Polymer Chromatography ® (APC ™ ) System with Malvern Panalytical’s OMNISEC ® REVEAL , R&D scientists can access ...

Building a smaller, lighter future: Understanding polymer behaviors below 1 nanometer

13-Oct-2010 - Knowing how to build nanosized assemblies of polymers (long molecular chains) holds the key to improving a broad range of industrial processes, from the production of nanofibers, filters, and new materials to the manufacture of low-energy, nanoscale circuits and devices. A recent paper in Nature ...

Clicking Tc-99m SPECT Probes Together

Molecular Assembly of Multifunctional 99mTc Radiopharmaceuticals Using "Clickable" Amino Acid Derivatives

12-Oct-2010 - Radioactively labeled compounds are important for use as imaging probes or radiotherapeutic agents. Most radioisotopes with suitable decay properties are transition metals or elements with metallic character. Therefore, bifunctional chelators are required for stable tethering of a given ...

Carbon nanotubes show promise for high-speed genetic sequencing

06-Jan-2010 - Faster sequencing of DNA holds enormous potential for biology and medicine, particularly for personalized diagnosis and customized treatment based on each individual's genomic makeup. At present however, sequencing technology remains cumbersome and cost prohibitive for most clinical applications, ...

Evotec to Launch its First Innovation Centre for Fragment Based Drug Discovery

24-May-2007 - Evotec AG announced the launch of its Innovation Centre for Fragment Based Drug Discovery ('FBDD'). FBDD offers an alternative approach for identifying novel, small molecule hits (fragments) for a number of biological targets including those that have proved problematic using traditional drug ...

Combinature and InterMune collaborate on NMR fragment screening

08-Jun-2006 - Combinature Biopharm AG announced the partnership with InterMune involving its NMR-Fragment-Screening technology. Combinature will identify novel low molecular weight chemotypes, so-called fragments, to a target protein of InterMune. Moreover Combinature will determine the binding sites of such ...

Sigma-Genosys Enters Agreement With Novatia

28-Jul-2005 - Sigma-Genosys, a division of Sigma-Aldrich has incorporated into its quality control (QC) lab an LC-MS system from Novatia. The system improves the molecular weight determination of larger synthetic oligonucleotides (>50 bases) as well as synthetic peptides. Novatia specializes in developing an ...

Wiley Launches Mass Spectra of Designer Drugs 2005

17-May-2005 - John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced the launch of Mass Spectra of Designer Drugs 2005 CD-ROM, the first complete update since 2003. This latest collection contains 2,959 chemical compounds and 3,437 mass spectra and structures of designer drugs, medicinal drugs, and warfare agents, and includes ...

Characterisation of molecular weight distribution and structural distribution of carrageenans in a single GPC experiment

16-Feb-2005 - Carrageenans are mixtures of water-soluble, linear and sulphated galactans obtained by extraction from certain types of red seaweeds. Different carrageenan types (kappa, iota, lambda) differ in conformation and composition and find application as thickening, gelling and stabilising agents in a ...

Wiley Launches SpecInfo on Wiley InterScience

17-Sep-2004 - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced the launch of SpecInfo on Wiley InterScience, its dynamic online publishing platform. With over 434,000 curated spectra, SpecInfo is among the world's largest collections. This launch marks the first time Wiley has made the collection available on the Internet ...