Massachusetts General Hospital will serve as a key testing site for a multicentred instrument precision study involving Royal Philips' digital pathology whole slide imaging IntelliSite Solution. [ + ]

The Lewin-Cameron laboratory recently commissioned and installed OpenSpecimen, a bioinformatics platform for managing biospecimens inventories. [ + ]

The inventor of angle-resolved cathodoluminescence and one of the pioneers of the field of nanophotonics, Professor Albert Polman, officially opened Monash University's Advanced Cathodoluminescence Characterisation Facility on 4 February. [ + ]

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group has supplied peristaltic pumps to Novasep for the Sius TFF Skid, a tangential flow filtration system used to separate and concentrate biomolecules according to their size. [ + ]

Researchers at the Health Innovations Research Institute are using INTEGRA's electronic pipettes and pipetting platform to scale up their screening of venoms and small compounds. [ + ]

At the Madrid-based technology centre of global energy company Repsol, scientists are conducting research into fossil fuel alternatives. [ + ]

Professor Itai Einav and his researchers use experimental, theoretical and computer program models to predict how granular materials behave under various conditions.

When the Finland-based CSC – IT Centre for Science needed to expand its data centre infrastructure, it turned to CommScope and its Data Center on Demand (DCoD) family of prefabricated modular data centres. [ + ]

Oxford University researcher Dr David Staunton has recommended the use of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) as a first-line technique when characterising recombinant proteins. [ + ]

Philip Lawrence details how the Testo Saveris data logger assists him in maintaining optimal storage environments. [ + ]

Capacitive sensors are a fine thing in and of themselves: they can detect levels of liquids, powders and granular materials through nonmetallic container walls without the sensor coming into contact with the media. However, conventional capacitive sensors also have a number of disadvantages. [ + ]

The accuracy and function of the high-performance dosing systems from Brand are based on the sophisticated technology of the seripettor bottle-top dispenser. The process reliability is improved by the miniaturised MICROmote photoelectric sensors from Balluff. [ + ]

ONBoard Solutions has announced the launch of a product for the room-temperature sterilisation of tissue-engineered and medical device products: REVOX.

Product testing and inspection company Intertek has announced the opening of a new fuels testing laboratory in Gladstone, Queensland. [ + ]

Eppendorf has demonstrated the use of the BioFlo 320 bioprocess control station to achieve E. coli cultivation. [ + ]