Sensofar has developed a new technique for characterising the evolution of a sample’s surface topography with temperature using the S neox 3D optical profiler and Linnik interferometer coupled with Linkam’s LTS420 temperature-controlled chamber. The technique has been used to successfully map the changes in roughness and waviness of silicon wafers at temperatures up to 380 °C.

Miltenyi Biotec has signed a purchase contract for a non-harmful, fluorescence-preserving, optical clearing process from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. The acquired invention involves an easy-to-use protocol that allows a safe optical clearing of biological samples for microscopy using an organic solvent-based clearing agent, the company announced.

While light microscopes offer a high resolution, they cannot peer deep into the tissue. MRI on the other hand enables a deeper view into the tissue, however, at low resolutions. A team of scientists at UC Berkeley has now developed a method that combines the advantages of both technologies.

Massive requirement for new testing capacity: The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the ability to respond rapidly is crucial in combating such exceptional situations. With its mobile laboratory containers, Waldner has developed a solution for handling demand peaks.

The life science group Sartorius introduced the Arium Smart Station for dispensing pure and ultrapure water from Arium Comfort and Pro water systems and Arium Bagtanks.

Biochromato has published a report describing how their Ion Rocket sample preparation device, used in combination with Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) and Kendrick Mass Defect (KMD) analysis, provides a valuable new tool for chain analysis of fluoroelastomers.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a global medical technology company, will build a € 165 million ($ 200 million) high-tech manufacturing facility in city of Zaragoza, Spain, for the production of drug delivery devices.

An international research led by the UGR shows that 90 % of store and supermarket receipts are made of thermal paper containing bisphenol A (BPA). BPA is a well‑known endocrine disruptor that alters hormonal balance in people exposed to it, and it leads to hormonal diseases such as genitourinary malformations, infertility, obesity and cancer in hormone‑dependent organs.

Pharma and biotech laboratories performing high-throughput screening, high-content screening and molecular cell biology can now benefit from a series of new automated incubators and storage solutions that offer a large capacity, fast access and wide temperature range, while helping eliminate contamination issues in high-throughput environments.

Density determination of liquid, gaseous, and paste-like samples is of great importance in many industries. Anton Paar has been dominating the development of density determination for decades.