Applied quality control in the chemical industry – new web pages answer your questions

We are making the chemical engineer’s life a bit more comfortable: A new section on the Metrohm website takes a comprehensive look at the methods and applications used in the quality control of the industrial manufacturing of basic chemicals, solvents, colorants, and their intermediates. Whether you are looking for a specific parameter and suitable methods... Read more

Greiner Bio-One Aids Underfunded High School Science Program

Greiner Bio-One North America, Inc. has agreed to donate laboratory supplies from the BioScience product portfolio to assist in equipping the science program at a high school in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Due to a lack of funding, the local science faculty were struggling to find ways to equip their science labs with the proper equipment to... Read more

QIAGEN Exchange Offer for Digene Corporation Expired With Significant Over 90% of Shares Tendered

VENLO, The Netherlands, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QIAGEN N.V. (Nasdaq: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that its offer to exchange cash and stock for all outstanding shares of Digene Corporation (Nasdaq: DIGE) expired as scheduled at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, July 20, 2007. All conditions of the exchange offer... Read more

MACSxpress Treg Isolation Kit, human: Quick and efficient isolation of regulatory T cells

BERGISCH GLADBACH, July 21, 2016 – The new MACSxpress® Treg Isolation Kit, human from Miltenyi Biotec facilitates both the fast and efficient isolation of regulatory T (Treg) cells from a maximum of 30 ml of fresh, anticoagulated whole blood. The MACSxpress Technique makes it possible to isolate Treg cell populations without using density gradient centrifugation and... Read more

Molecular Devices’ SpectraMax M5e Multi-Mode Microplate Reader Launched to International Space Station via NanoRacks, LLC

NanoRacks, LLC is installing a new, reconfigured Molecular Devices’ SpectraMax M5e multi-mode microplate reader on the International Space Station to perform experiments in microgravity. SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — JULY 19, 2016 Molecular Devices, LLC, a leader in protein and cell biology technologies, today announced the launch of the SpectraMax M5e Multi-Mode Microplate Reader to the International Space... Read more

Investing in Cures for Cancer: GE Poised to Lead Industrialization of Cell Therapy Industry with Acquisition of Biosafe Group SA

Chalfont St Giles, UK – 13 July 2016 – GE Healthcare has acquired Biosafe Group SA, a supplier of integrated cell bioprocessing systems for the rapidly growing cell therapy and regenerative medicine industry for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Biosafe expands GE Healthcare’s end-to-end ecosystem of products, solutions and services for our cell therapy... Read more

Ion Chromatography – which column for which application?

Metrohm is pleased to present the Column Finder. Available on the Metrohm website, this new, dedicated search engine enables users to quickly find the most suitable Metrohm IC column for their application. «I know which analyte I need to determine and in which matrix, however, what column do I need to get the job done?»... Read more

The new generation of ESR devices

The new generation of fully automatically controlled VACUETTE® erythrocyte sedimentation rate devices saves one of the most important resources of all: time. Depending on the settings, the 1-hour Westergren value can be read off after as little as 15 or 30 minutes, while the 2-hour Westergren value can be available after just 60 minutes.The devices... Read more

Automated inline sample preparation for ion chromatography

Metrohm Logical Inline Dilution provides for automatic dilution of the sample depending on the predefined concentration limits. Even the dilution factor is determined automatically making sure that results lie always within the calibration range and thus are correct. Metrohm intelligent Partial Loop Injection (MiPT) automatically adjusts the injection volume to the concentration of the sample.... Read more