Cilia and flagella were the first organelles to be discovered and have been studied for centuries. However, their essential role in humans and how ciliary defects cause diseases are still not well understood. Cryo-EM has recently shed new light on their inner workings and solved some long-standing mysteries, only to raise new questions on how... Read more
Feb 3, 2015 – Trevose, PA – GE Analytical Instruments’ parent company GE Water & Process Technologies launched UsedtoUseful, a new platform where we share industry insight and discuss interesting concepts surrounding the impact of water reuse on industrial and municipal sectors. UsedtoUseful focuses on water reuse, tough-to-treat water, energy efficiency, and monitoring through interesting articles, original content, and... Read more
HPLC and UHPLC Systems The LC-4000 series is the latest in the long history of innovative HPLC systems developed by JASCO reaching back to the early 1970’s. Whether requirements demand semi-micro or preparative, low pressure or high pressure, basic or complex and anything in between, we have a system to meet those needs. The system... Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Patricia Corkum, Marketing Manager978-536-2273 • pcorkum@jeol.com • www.jeolusa.com (January 13, 2015 — Peabody, Mass.) JEOL USA and the University of California’s Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI) have entered into a strategic partnership to create a premier electron microscopy and materials science research facility. The IMRI will serve as an interdisciplinary nexus for the... Read more
MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS II Sequencing System, today announced its participation in the International Plant & Animal Genome (PAG) XXIII Conference taking place in San Diego from January 10-14. More than 50 researchers from around the world will be... Read more
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 18, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS II Sequencing System, today announced that it has appointed industry veteran Kathy Ordoñez to its Board of Directors. Ordoñez has a 30 year history of leadership in the life sciences and diagnostics industries, including positions... Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Patricia Corkum, Marketing Manager978-536-2273 • pcorkum@jeol.com • www.jeolusa.com December 15, 2014 (Peabody, MA) — JEOL USA is pleased to announce a new program that, for a limited time, offers NMR users in the Americas the opportunity to replace their NMR consoles at a special price. For more than 50 years, JEOL has been... Read more
Dec 15, 2014 – Boulder, CO – GE Analytical Instruments released a new video called, Automating Your Laboratory Conductivity Measurements with Confidence, video. Lab Manager, Dondra Biller talks about pharmaceutical companies need to reduce the time required to test water samples for conductivity in the laboratory. She also shows how “It’s easy to do away with older,... Read more
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura, who collaborated in the blue light-emitting diodes (LED) invention that enables efficient production of brilliant and energy-saving white light sources. The committee recognized this breakthrough technology, which revolutionized electronic displays and residential and... Read more
To optimise the efficiency of cell machinery, cells can use the same protein (often called a hub protein) to participate in different cell functions by simply changing its target molecules. There are large data sets describing protein-protein interactions (“interactome”) but they frequently fail to consider the functional significance of the interactions themselves. Read more