WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) announced that it has priced an offering of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of the following notes: $750 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.200% senior notes due 2027, at an issue price of 99.263% of their principal amount and $750 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.100% senior... Read more
RADNOR, Pa., Aug. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The VWR Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to giving back to the science community, distributed 20 grants totaling over $140,000 during its Board Meeting in July. During the meeting, Board Members reviewed a record number of grant applications including many organizations new to the Foundation. Among the grant recipients was The Helping Hand Project at... Read more
09 August 2017 Oxford Instruments plc announced today (August 9) that it intends to increase personnel at its R&D base located at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan. It also plans to leverage ITRI’s R&D capacities to strengthen the cooperative relationship in the development of innovative technologies. Y. Tim Tsai, Advisor at the... Read more
Rigaku Simultix 15 is the newest version of the popular multi-channel simultaneous wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer system. August 8, 2017 – Tokyo, Japan. Rigaku Corporation today has introduced the newest version of their renowned multi-channel simultaneous wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer system, the Simultix 15 high-throughput WDXRF spectrometer. For over 40 years, the... Read more
Lexogen Expands the Product Portfolio of RNA-Seq Kits with the Launch of a New Small RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit Vienna, Austria – August 8, 2017 – Today Lexogen, the transcriptomics and next-generation sequencing company, has launched a Small RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit, and in doing so closed the gap in their portfolio of RNA sample... Read more
– Cloud-Based Sharing and Usage of Data from Equipment – Tokyo, Japan, August 8, 2017 – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) has announced the development of ExTOPE as an integrated IoT service portal for the equipment it makes. This portal will collect, store and manage measurement data and equipment operation data produced by... Read more
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) announced that it has priced its underwritten public offering of 8,771,930 shares of common stock at a price of $171.00 per share for expected gross proceeds of approximately $1.5 billion, before the underwriting discount and expenses. Thermo Fisherhas also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to... Read more
August 7 2017 Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) announces the release of the nSMOL (nano-surface and molecular orientation limited proteolysis) Antibody Bio-Analysis Kit. Applicable to a variety of pharmaceutical antibodies, this proprietary technique enables selective proteolysis of the Fab region of monoclonal antibodies to dramatically improve the productivity and robustness of LCMS mAB bioanalysis. The nSMOL... Read more
ST. LOUIS, Missouri – August 7, 2017 – At the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2017 Meeting Bruker today presents XMethod, the world’s first software package for the analysis of composition and thickness of single or multiple layers, based on data obtained by sample excitation with the XTrace micro-focus X-ray source for scanning electron microscopes (SEM). The software enables... Read more
07 August 2017 Oxford Instruments, a global leader in microanalysis systems, has introduced a real-time navigation and imaging system for the SEM that helps users interactively explore their sample based on video-rate X-ray maps coloured by element rather than just the black and white electron image alone. Unlike traditional static approaches to elemental analysis that... Read more