LAUDA acquires laboratory specialist

18-Dec-2018 - LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG has announced the acquisition of GFL Gesellschaft für Labortechnik mbH. This is the third takeover in total for the company from Lauda-Königshofen. While the previous acquisitions primarily served to open up new business areas in the industrial environment, LAUDA ...

Humans can distinguish more than 1 trillion scents

24-Mar-2014 - The human sense of smell does not get the respect it deserves, new research suggests. In an experiment led by Andreas Keller, of Rockefeller's Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, researchers tested volunteers' ability to distinguish between complex mixtures of scents. Based on the ...

More dangerous chemicals in everyday life

Now experts warn against nanosilver

03-Mar-2014 - Endocrine disrupters are not the only worrying chemicals that ordinary consumers are exposed to in everyday life. Also nanoparticles of silver, found in e.g. dietary supplements, cosmetics and food packaging, now worry scientists. A new study from the University of Southern Denmark shows that ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Opens New Manufacturing Facility in China

Expands Global Footprint, Local Production Capabilities to Address Increased Demand from Life Sciences Customers in China and Asia-Pacific Region

19-Nov-2012 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced the official opening of its new facility in Suzhou, China, for the manufacturing of life sciences consumables and equipment. The facility expands the company’s global manufacturing footprint and establishes local production capabilities to meet increased ...

Along the motorway at 150 degrees below freezing

09-Nov-2009 - It often used to be the case that a breakdown in the storage or transportation of laboratory samples would lead to the loss of months or years of research work. More and more companies from the medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries are therefore entrusting their valuable ...