High Tech Separations News articles from July 2000

High Tech Separations News archives from July 2000

SUPERCRITICAL FLUID CHROMATOGRAPHY Separator Improves SFC Design.
July 1, 2000... Berger Instruments (123A Sandy Dr., Newark, DE 19713; Tel: 302/266-8201, Fax: 302/266-8204) has developed an improved separator that collects solvent without forming an aerosol prep supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) instrument. Berger...

HYDRODYNAMIC CHROMATOGRAPHY Polymer Labs to Launch Package.
July 1, 2000... Vice president of sales John McConville says that Polymer Laboratories (Amherst Fields Research Park, 160 Old Farm Rd., Amherst, MA 01002; Tel: 413/253-9554) the company will launch the first commercial hydrodynamic chromatography (HDC)...

CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS LabChip Enhances Drug Discovery.
July 1, 2000... Caliper Technologies Corp. (605 Fairchild Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043-2234; Tel: 650/623-0700, Fax: 650/623-0500) has developed a labchip high throughput program that speeds drug discovery with fast and easy DNA sampling analyses. The...

SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION: Automated SPE Unit Handles Larger Disks.
July 1, 2000... Horizon Technology (8 Commerce Dr., Atkinson, NH 03811; Tel: 603/893-3663, Fax: 603/893-4994) has developed a solid phase extraction unit that accommodates larger disks to perform automatic solid phase extraction (SPE) of oil and grease,...

INSTRUMENTATION: Low Volume Valves Improve Detection.
July 1, 2000... Upchurch Scientific (619 W. Oak St., Oak Harbor, WA 98277; Tel: 800/426-0191, Fax: 800/359-3460) has developed micro valves with an internal volume of 51-55 l compared to 500 l for most conventional valves that makes them ideally suited for...

Harney Valve Serves High Throughput.
July 1, 2000... Leap Technologies (PO Box 969, Carrboro, NC 27510; Tel: 800/229- 8814, Fax: 919/929-8956) has developed a valve to close a gap in LC-MS instrumentation. Capable of multiple injections, the Harney valve solves three particular problems in the...

DETECTION: Agilent Instrument Speedy and Sensitive.
July 1, 2000... Agilent Technologies (395 Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94306; Tel: 650/752-5000, Fax: 650/752-5633) has developed inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) instruments that achieve superior sensitivity and high sample throughput...

On-Line Method Couples Techniques.
July 1, 2000... Dutch scientists at the Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden (Leiden, The Netherlands) have discovered an on-line method coupling fractionation with biochemical detection that may prove useful in drug discovery. Combining the two continuous flow...

Traceable System Verifies Accuracy.
July 1, 2000... LabMetrix Technologies (4570 Campus Dr., Newport Beach, CA 92660; Tel: 949/252-2127, Fax: 949/252-2128) has developed a performance verification system applied to fluorescence detectors for a straightforward, accurate comparison. The...

Combo Works Well for Luciferase Assays.
July 1, 2000... Bioscan, Inc. (4590 MacArthur Blvd., Washington, DC 20007; Tel: 202/338-0974 or 800/255-7226, Fax: 202/33308514) has combined its Mini-Lum luminometer with a monitoring kit from Labsystems Oy (Helsinki, Finland) to perform luciferase assays...

INDUSTRY NEWS: PUR Carbon Filters Don't Make Grade.
July 1, 2000... Recovery Engineering, Inc. (9300 North 75th Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55428; Tel: 612/315-5500, Fax: 612/315-5505), manufacturer of PUR camping water purifiers, has reported a potential problem with the Stop Top carbon cartridge. The Stop Top,...

Edwards to Supply Interpore AGF Products.
July 1, 2000... Edwards Lifesciences Cardiovascular Resources, Inc. (One Edwards Way, Irvine, CA 92614; Tel: 800/424-3278, Fax: 949/250-2525) has entered an agreement with Interpore Cross International (181 Technology Dr., Irvine, CA 92618; Tel:...

Red Cross Contracts Transfusion Technology.
July 1, 2000... Expanding on a 1997 development contract, the American Red Cross has signed an agreement for initial use of Transfusion Technologies' (9 Erie Dr., Natick, MA 01760; Tel: 508/655-2277) blood collection and processing systems in Red Cross...

Air Separators Prepare Nitrogen.
July 1, 2000... The first of the world's four largest air separations units has begun pumping high-purity nitrogen to the Cantarell oil fields in Campeche, Mexico. A $1 billion nitrogen complex, on the Atasta peninsula near Ciudad del Carmen, will send the...

Schleicher & Schuell's.
July 1, 2000... Schleicher & Schuell's (Hahnestrae 3, Postfach 4, 37582 Dassel, Germany; Tel: (05561) 7 91-409, Fax: (05561) 7 91-583) New Hampshire subsidiary has purchased Biopath, Inc. (2611 Mercer Ave., West Palm Beach, FL 33401; Tel: 561/655-2302, Fax:...

PerkinElmer, Inc.
July 1, 2000... PerkinElmer, Inc. (761 Main Ave., Norwalk, CT 06859-0010; Tel: 203-762-4003 or 800/762-4003) has agreed to purchase NEN Life Sciences (Albany St., Boston, MA 02118; Tel: 617/482-9595, Fax: 617/482-1380) from Genstar Capital LLC (Metro Tower,...

QIAGEN N.V.
July 1, 2000... QIAGEN N.V. (Max-Volmer-Strae 4, 40724 Hilden, Germany; Tel: 02103-29-12400, Fax: 02103-29-22000), a provider of products for the separation, purification and handling of nucleic acids, will acquire Operon Technologies, Inc. (1000 Atlantic...

Ionics, Inc.
July 1, 2000... Ionics, Inc. (65 Grove St., Watertown, MA 02472; Tel: 617/926-2500, Fax: 617/926-4304) and Williams Industries, Inc. (Barbados) has dedicated the largest brackish water desalination operation in the Caribbean. Ionics has built more...

Affymetrix, Inc.
July 1, 2000... Affymetrix, Inc. (3380 Central Expwy., Santa Clara, CA 95051; Tel: 408/731-5000, Fax: 408/481-0422) has entered into two agreements with Merck & Co., Inc. (PO Box 100, One Merck Dr., Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889; Tel: 908/423-1000, Fax:...

HemaSure, Inc.
July 1, 2000... HemaSure, Inc. (140 Locke Dr., Marlborough, MA 01752; Tel: 508/490-9500), and Whatman (Whatman House, St. Leonard's Rd. 20/20, Maidstone, Kent ME16 0LS, U.K.; Tel: +44 1622 626262, Fax: +44 1622 661307), have joined in a strategic alliance...

Isco, Inc.
July 1, 2000... Isco, Inc. (4700 Superior St., Lincoln, NE 68504; Tel: 402/464-0231, Fax: 402/464-4543) has reported a net loss for the fiscal third quarter of $1.0 million, or $0.18 per share, on sales of $14.0 million compared with a loss of $125,000, or...

Orchid BioSciences, Inc.
July 1, 2000... Orchid BioSciences, Inc. (303 College Rd. East, Princeton, NJ 08540; Tel: 609/750-2200, Fax: 617/542-2241) has reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2000. Total revenues were $3,904,000 compared with $250,000 for...

Minntech Corp.
July 1, 2000... Minntech Corp. (14605 28th Ave. North, Minneapolis, MN 55447; Tel: 612/553-3300, Fax: 612/553-3387) has made changes to its board of directors and management team. William Hope, CEO of G&K Services, Inc. (5995 Opus Pkwy., Suite 500,...

Medical Services.
July 1, 2000... Medical Services (1725 Gillespie Way, El Cajon, CA 92020; Tel: 619/596-8600, Fax: 619/596-8700) has named Larry Lucas as vice president of sales. Lucas has developed telemarketing departments, customer service departments, sales and training...

Nanogen.
July 1, 2000... Nanogen (10398 Pacific Center Court, San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 858/410-4600, Fax: 858/410-4848) has appointed George Bers to the position of vice president of business development. Prior to joining Nanogen, Bers was employed at BioRad...

Aurora Biosciences.
July 1, 2000... Aurora Biosciences (11010 Torreyana Rd., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 858/404-6600, Fax: 858/404-6714) has named Christopher W. Krueger as vice president of strategic alliances and Douglas S. Farrell to senior director of investor relations and...

Whatman BioScience.
July 1, 2000... Whatman BioScience (Granta Park, Abington, Cambridge CB1 6GR, U.K.; Tel: +44 (0) 1223 895700, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 891903), Whatman's business venture into the isolation, purification, transport, and storage of nucleic acids, has appointed...

ADVANCED FILTRATION Temps Constant During Cleaning.
July 1, 2000... Schleicher & Schuell GmbH (Postfach 4, D-37852, Dassel, Germany; Tel: 49/5561 791 0, Fax: 49/5561 791 536) researchers have found that using high-performance heat exchanger cassettes with ultrafiltration (UF) cassettes keeps the temperature...

Rhino Membrane Intercepts Wet Waste.
July 1, 2000... Rhino Ecosystems, Inc. (40 Trowers Rd., Woodbridge, ON, Canada L4L 7K6; Tel: 905/264-0198, Fax: 905/264-0515) has introduced a product with the potential to reduce 80% of wet waste solids, fats, oils and greases before they are discharged to...

NOVEL: Ridged Chips Dip into Microfluidics.
July 1, 2000... Thanks to a processing method, Sandia National Laboratories (PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185; Tel: 505/284-5200) scientists have created a ridged microfluidic chip that holds promise in pollution detection, pharmaceuticals testing and...

Protein G-Coated Dynabeads Introduced.
July 1, 2000... Dynal AS (PO Box 158, Skoyen, N-0212, Oslo, Norway) has introduced Dynabeads coated with protein G, a well-known ligand used for affinity chromatography. The coated magnetic beads offer rapid small-scale purification of immunoglobulins...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2000... September 24-28, International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination- Chirality 2000, Chamonix, France. Contact: Secretariat ENS-Lyon, Laboratoire STIM, 46 all_e d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, Cedex 07, France; Tel: +33 (0)4 72 72 8382/8393, Fax: +33...