Bruker Acquires Prolab Instruments

Augment Multiomics Solutions

20-Jan-2022 - Bruker Corporation announced the acquisition of Prolab Instruments GmbH, a Swiss technology company specialized in low-flow, high precision liquid chromatography technology and systems. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mr. Werner Doebelin, the Founder and CEO of Prolab, ...

Pinning down key proton pump working with super-slow motion video

27-Dec-2016 - Using powerful new tools, scientists from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center and collaborators have demonstrated how bacteriorhodopsin, a "proton pump", uses light to transport protons across the cell membrane to create a charge difference that can be used to power a cell's activities. Bacteriorhodopsin ...

Neutrons help to determine enzyme function

New point of attack against stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori

21-Dec-2016 - There is a strong suspicion that Helicobacter pylori is linked to the development of stomach cancer. Now an international team of researchers led by Prof. Donald R. Ronning (University of Toledo, USA) has used neutrons to unlock the secret to the functionality of an important enzyme in the ...

Signal gradients in 3-D guide stem cell behavior

System can help discern recipes for tissue and organ repair and replacements

20-Sep-2013 - Scientists know that physical and biochemical signals can guide cells to make, for example, muscle, blood vessels or bone. But the exact recipes to produce the desired tissues have proved elusive. Now, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have taken a step toward identifying that mix by ...

Fluid Metering has rolled-out its new expanded website

21-Nov-2012 - FMI is a manufacturer of Precision Valveless Dispensers and Metering Pumps for Laboratory, Process and Production applications, as well as applications for OEM medical and analytical instrumentation.The New website includes detailed descriptions, animations and videos of Fluid Metering’s unique ...

Growth for Vacuum Pumps is in High-Tech Applications, According to Frost & Sullivan

The European market will expand from €405.2 million in 2010 to €750.1 million in 2017

08-Sep-2011 - The European vacuum pumps market is anticipated to witness growth, fuelled by high-tech applications for vacuum technologies and the rising awareness of the benefits of using vacuum systems.New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Analysis of the European Vacuum Pumps Market, finds that the ...

Water is an active element in proteins

Bochum’s researchers discover proton diode

30-Sep-2010 - Biophysicists in Bochum have discovered a diode for protons: just like the electronic component determines the direction of flow of electric current, the “proton diode” ensures that protons can only pass through a cell membrane in one direction. Water molecules play an important role here as ...

ITT agrees to purchase Nova Analytics

29-Mar-2010 - ITT Corporation announced its agreement to purchase Nova Analytics Corporation. Nova Analytics is a privately held manufacturer of premium quality laboratory, field, portable, and on-line analytical instruments used in water and wastewater, environmental, medical, and food and beverage ...

Scientists patent corrosion-resistant nano-coating for metals

Thinner, less toxic than existing coatings; efficient and economical to produce

30-Mar-2009 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles which renders the metal resistant to corrosion and eliminates the use of toxic chromium for this purpose. The scientists ...

Using light to move and trap DNA molecules

06-Jan-2009 - A major goal of nanotechnology research is to create a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing. This could make possible portable, fast-acting detectors for disease organisms or food-borne pathogens, rapid DNA sequencing and ...