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Malvern's Morphologi G3 Wins Instrument Business Outlook's 2008 Gold Award

Malvern Panalytical' Morphologi G3 has won Instrument Business Outlook's 2008 Gold Award for analytical instrument industrial design.

From Malvern Panalytical 28 Aug 2008

Findings May Point to New Materials to Get the Current Flowing at Higher Temperatures

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado, have uncovered the first experimental evidence for why the transition temperature of high-temperature superconductors - the temperature at which these materials carry electrical current with no resistance - cannot simply be elevated by increasing the electrons' binding energy.

28 Aug 2008

Rare Earth Elements and Protein Probes Combining to Capture Images of Molecules in a Single Cell

Seeing what's going on inside living cells at the molecular level may reveal biological mechanisms and ultimately lead to more effective medicines. While sophisticated microscopes allow scientists to take pictures of...

27 Aug 2008

Secret Sandia Research Uses Nanotechnology to Determine Anthrax Origin

Secret work in the materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories has been contributing to the FBI's investigation of letters containing bacillus anthracis, the spores that cause the disease anthrax

From Sandia National Laboratories 27 Aug 2008

First Asian Employee from JPK to be Based in Singapore

JPK announces the hire of their first Asian employee to be based in Singapore. Lawrence Tan, formerly Asian sales manager for Veeco Instruments, has joined JPK Instruments AG, to take responsibility for all Asian sales and marketing activities to support JPK's growing installed base of advanced nanotechnology solutions for the life sciences community.

From Bruker BioAFM 26 Aug 2008

Research Having Major Implications for Development and Testing of Future Drugs

A new study by research chemists at the University of Warwick has challenged a century old rule of pharmacology that defined how quickly key chemicals can pass across cell walls. The new observations of the Warwick resea...

26 Aug 2008

Sandia’s Work Demonstrated Anthrax Letters Contained Non-Weaponized Form

Sandia's work demonstrated to the FBI that the form of bacillus anthracis contained in those letters was not a weaponized form, a form of the bacteria prepared to disperse more readily. The possibility of a weaponized form was of great concern to investigators, says Joseph Michael, the principal investigator for the project. This information was crucial in ruling out state-sponsored terrorism.

From Sandia National Laboratories 22 Aug 2008