Latest News 2009/11

Latest news from laboratory, environment, chemistry, life science and quality control

ISO, ILAC and IAF streamline quality management requirements for medical laboratories
Medical laboratories accredited to ISO 15189:2007 (a sector-specific technical competence and management system standard) are recognized as meeting the management system principles of ISO 9001:2008...
QIAGEN to Acquire SABiosciences
QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has signed a definite agreement to acquire SABiosciences Corporation, a privately-held developer and manufacturer ...
IQ/OQ Documentation for Equipment Qualification
JULABO offers a complete service package for professional equipment installation and qualification. To support equipment qualification JULABO provides IQ/OQ-documentation for various JULABO tempera...
Grace Receives Innovation Award for REVELERIS™ system
A research and development team at W. R. Grace & Co. has received an Innovator of the Year Award from The Daily Record. The award acknowledges the team's work on the design, development and launch ...
Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain
By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to study th...
BfR publishes EU Food Safety Almanac
The state structures of food and feed safety in 30 European states are presented in the EU Food Safety Almanac published by the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). "Smooth cooperation betw...
Analytik Jena Launches H1N1 Rapid Test
Analytik Jena AG is launching its newly developed rapid test for detecting the influenza virus H1N1 in time for the start of BIOTECHNICA 2009. The Thuringia-based company, an innovative supplier in...
Jülich Neutron Scientists Inaugurate Unique Device in the USA
A unique large-scale research device from Jülich went into operation in the USA yesterday. At the strongest neutron source in the world, the spallation source SNS in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Forschung...
GATC Biotech opens sequencing laboratory in London
GATC Biotech, Europe's leading sequencing service provider for industrial and academic research, announces that it will open a sequencing laboratory in London to provide scientists in UK and Irelan...