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- LAUDA buys a Spanish manufacturer of industrial circulation chillers
The world's leading constant temperature specialist and Donaldson Company, Inc., one of the world's most eminent manufacturers of filtration products and equipment, officially announced in Barcelon... - BSE pathogens can be transmitted by air
Airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder. This is the surprising conclusion of researchers at the University of Zurich, the University Hospit... - LGC Standards continues global expansion with first office in Dubai
LGC Standards has opened its first branch office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This latest expansion into new territories follows on from our 2009 opening of offices in China and Russia.LGC Stand... - Environmental contaminants in foodstuffs
The final report of the research project "Foodborne exposure to environmental contaminants" (LExUKon) is now available. In this project scientists of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)... - New insights from the nano world: Direct observation of carbon monoxide binding
Carbon monoxide is highly toxic since it blocks the binding site for oxygen in hemoglobin. This very principle - a porphyrin ring with a central iron or cobalt atom that the poisonous gas attaches ... - Scientists Discover Chemical Signal in Human Tears
Emotional crying is a universal, uniquely human behavior. When we cry, we clearly send all sorts of emotional signals. In a paper published online today in Science Express, scientists at the Weizma... - Impregnating plastics with carbon dioxide
Everyone has heard that carbon dioxide is responsible for global warming. But the gas also has some positive characteristics. Researchers are now impregnating plastics with compressed CO2 in a proc... - Bruker Announces Acquisition of Sigma ElectroOptics GmbH
Bruker announced the signing of an agreement with simultaneous closing of the acquisition of Sigma ElectroOptics GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany. Sigma's 2010 revenue is expected to be about one mi... - Sartorius Appoints International Life Sciences Leader to its Top Management Team
Effective January 1, 2011, the former Millipore executive, Dominique Baly, has assumed cross-divisional management of marketing, sales and service for the Sartorius laboratory business as President...