Lab Management
The University of Texas at San Antonio has recruited a nationally recognized expert in the field of sustainable energy to become the new director of the UTSA Institute for Conventional, Alternative and Renewable Energy (ICARE).
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Acetonitrile costs have soared by 6 to 8 times since the summer of 2008 due to a global shortage of this key chromatography solvent.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a $20 million grant from NSF to build and operate a powerful supercomputer.
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As part of its strategy to discover and develop more biotechnology medicines, Eli Lilly and Company has opened a state-of-the-art biotechnology center on the West Coast. The facility--Lilly Biotechnology Center-San Diego--opened just three months after Lilly announced it.
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Are ever-growing stacks of paperwork interfering with your productivity? When you sit down to work, do you find yourself buried beneath a stack of paperwork and never being able to lay your hands on the one piece of paper you need for the task at hand? Organizing paperwork is key.
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GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces a strategic collaboration with GoIndustry DoveBid (GoIDB). The partnership enhances GE Healthcare's asset disposal capabilities and
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Alpha Analytical (www.alphalab.com) is announcing the completion of acquisition of Boston Analytical, Inc. Established in 1987, Boston Analytical (www.bostonanalytical.com) is a registered, cGMP compliant contract testing laboratory providing quality analytical and microbiological testing services to the pharmaceutical, biotech, device, cosmetic and nutritional products industries.
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Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a world leader in safety testing and certification, today announced the introduction of its Master and Fast Track Certification Programs. These new service offerings are designed to help photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturers and production equipment manufacturers get products to market faster by using an innovative approach to certify complete turn-key solution production lines.
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More than 2,000 urine and blood samples will be tested during the Vancouver Olympics as part of a $16.4 million effort to catch drug cheats. A state-of-the-art doping lab for the Feb. 12-28 Games has been unveiled at the Olympic speedskating oval in Richmond.
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Malvern Instruments and Kaiser Optical Systems have announced a development collaboration that will enhance the product portfolios of both companies.
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Harvard Univ. has acknowledged that it lost about $1.8 billion in investments over the past year, along with an $11 billion decline in the value of its endowments, and another $500 million in losses realized in connection with their interest rate exchange agreements, according to Harvard's recently published annual report and an interview by the Harvard Gazette with Jim Rothenberg, Harvard's treasurer.
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A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Dept. of Energy will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.
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