Autonomous synthesis robot uses AI to speed up chemical discovery

Impressive ingenuity

30-Jan-2024 - Chemists of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have developed an autonomous chemical synthesis robot with an integrated AI-driven machine learning unit. Dubbed ‘RoboChem’, the benchtop device can outperform a human chemist in terms of speed and accuracy while also displaying a high level of ...

Danila Barskiy receives Sofja Kovalevskaja Award to develop low-cost portable spectroscopic devices

New approaches to promote the use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for analysis in chemistry, biology, and medicine

24-Sep-2020 - The diverse work of Mainz-based physicists in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance is being boosted by a new highly application-oriented approach: In October 2020, Dr. Danila Barskiy will join Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) to set up a group focusing on nuclear magnetic resonance ...

Food analysis and diagnostics are hot topics at analytica China 2014

08-Sep-2014 - analytica China, International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis, Biotechnology and Diagnostics, opens its gates at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) for the seventh time from September 24–26, 2014. This year's focus topics are food analysis and diagnostics. Among ...

Food safety at analytica 2014: Trace analysis for our health

04-Mar-2014 - How safe is our food? This is a volatile issue for many consumers and a major challenge for the food-analysis sector. The only way to perform quality and origin analyses is with state-of-the-art equipment and techniques. That is why the topic of food analysis is an interdisciplinary focal point ...

Varian, Inc. to Acquire Magnex Scientific Ltd.

12-Oct-2004 - Varian, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Magnex Scientific Limited for $32 million in cash and assumed net debt, subject to certain net asset adjustments. The transaction will also include an opportunity for additional purchase price payments over three ...

Varian, Inc. Invests in Chenomx, Inc.

07-Apr-2004 - Varian, Inc. and Chenomx, Inc. announced that Varian, Inc. has made a strategic equity investment in Chenomx, Inc., a privately held company that is a leader in the rapidly growing field of metabolic profiling. Chenomx's "Eclipse" bioprofiling software can be used with data acquired from Varian, ...

Chenomx, Inc. and Varian, Inc. Form Distribution Relationship For 'Eclipse' Metabolite-Profiling Software

24-Sep-2003 - Varian, Inc. and Chenomx, Inc., a leader in the rapidly growing field of metabolic profiling, announced that they have entered into a distribution agreement to market Chenomx's "Eclipse" bioprofiling software, which can be used with data acquired from Varian, Inc. 400 MHz - 700 MHz NMR ...

900MHz NMR magnet technology in Japan

19-Aug-2003 - Two of the world's most powerful NMR magnets have now been successfully installed at state-of-the-art NMR facilities in Japan. These are the latest 900MHz NMR superconducting magnets in its manufacturing pipeline that Oxford Instruments Superconductivity has shipped, installed and brought to ...

Accelrys announces the release of software für efficient processing and analysis of NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance)

16-Apr-2002 - San Diego, CA, Accelrys Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacopeia, Inc., announces the release of FELIX Desktop 2002, the new PC version of FELIX. FELIX is a widely used software package for off-line data processing, spectral visualization and analysis software for all types of high ...

Varian, Inc.'s New LC-NMR-MS System Helps Pharmaceutical Researchers Develop Safer, More Effective Drugs

Instrument Critical for Increasingly Important Field of "Metabonomics"

16-Apr-2002 - PALO ALTO, Calif., Varian, Inc. today introduced its LC-NMR-MS system, a new integrated scientific instrument geared for the latest challenges facing drug discovery and development laboratories. Combining three Varian core technologies -- liquid chromatography (LC), nuclear magnetic resonance ...