New ASTM D8045 – New method for acid number determination in crude oil

Metrohm is pleased to announce that the ASTM has published method D8045 for the determination of Acid Number (AN) in crude oil and petroleum products. The new method describes thermometric titration and was developed by Metrohm together with industry leaders using the 859 Titrotherm titrator. Method D8045 demonstrates the superiority of thermometric titration for complex... Read more

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

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