It Takes Two: GE Healthcare and SHINE team up to solve longstanding radiopharmaceutical supply concerns in medical imaging

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – 9 November 2015 – Technetium-99m (Tc‑99m) is used in more than 40 million medical imaging procedures each year, primarily stress tests to assess heart disease, and bone scans to determine the stage of cancer progression. This essential medical isotope is generated in pharmacies and hospitals from another isotope—molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).  Despite... Read more

NEW Versatile High Throughput SEM from JEOL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Patricia Corkum, Marketing Manager978-536-2273 • pcorkum@jeol.com • www.jeolusa.com Portland, OR – November 4, 2015 — JEOL’s new JSM-IT100 is the latest addition to its InTouchScope Series of Scanning Electron Microscopes. Representing 50 years of industry leadership with advances in SEM, the IT100 is a simple-to-use versatile, research-grade SEM with a compact ergonomic design.... Read more

New Predatory Cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Manipulatoridae fam.n.) from the Upper Cretaceous Myanmar Amber

We describe a new extinct lineage Manipulatoridae (new family) of cockroaches from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of Myanmar. Manipulator modificaputis gen. et sp. n. is a morphologically unique extinct cockroach that represents the first (of a total of 29 known worldwide) cockroach family reported exclusively from the Myanmar amber. Read more

Molecular Devices Awarded New Product Innovation Prize for ImageXpress Micro Confocal System

Sunnyvale, California, October 12, 2015. Molecular Devices LLC, a leader in protein and cell biology technologies, is pleased to announce it has been awarded the New Product Innovation Award for the ImageXpress® Micro Confocal High Content Imaging system, launched at the recent Miptec conference in Basel, Switzerland. The award is in recognition for the AgileOptix™... Read more

Get the big picture from a small, compact, and versatile Benchtop SEM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Patricia Corkum, Marketing Manager978-536-2273 • pcorkum@jeol.com • www.jeolusa.com Introducing the JCM-6000PLUS NeoScope from JEOL JEOL USA, Peabody, MA (October 6, 2015) — JEOL’s benchtop SEM makes it possible to bring basic high resolution imaging and analysis features of a full-sized Scanning Electron Microscope into the lab. It fits into both small spaces and... Read more