Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Shimadzu Corp. today Aug. 20) announced the release of each other’s GC instrument control for their respective chromatography data systems. The move provides customers in analytical laboratories with more freedom of choice when selecting a chromatography data system.

Scientists and students in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina will have new opportunities to attend presentations by leading analytical chemistry authorities, thanks to an endowment established by Thermo Fisher Scientific in the College of Sciences at North Carolina State University. The endowment will help support the planned Distinguished Analytical Chemistry Seminar Series in the Department of Chemistry. 

3M Food Safety is marking the 30^th anniversary of the introduction of its revolutionary 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates, the worldwide standard for fast, simple, easy-to-interpret indicator testing.

Student teams from 77 countries compete to solve complex chemical problems and promote international collaboration in chemistry education.

The license enables SAGE Labs to use the CRISPR/Cas9 system to engineer cell and animal models for their clients as well as distribute validated CRISPR reagents.

Companies combine expertise to produce cytomegalovirus vaccine candidates.

Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK) has today (July 25) announced that it has completed the acquisition of MicroCal from GE Healthcare Life Sciences and has also purchased the Archimedes particle characterization system from Affinity Biosensors LLC (Santa Barbara, CA). Both of these developments extend Malvern’s portfolio of analytical solutions for the rapidly advancing biopharmaceutical industry.

Beckman Coulter, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR), announced today (July 16) that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the clinical microbiology business of Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics.

Winner will receive $70,000 worth of bioinformatics tools, software, hardware, and support to develop and build a production-grade pipeline

Support for researchers performing mutation detection and genome editing.