Rigaku shows new products at IUCr 2008 in Osaka, Japan
The Woodlands, TX — August 25, 2008. Rigaku Americas Corporation is pleased to announce its attendance at the 21st annual International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) meeting in Osaka, Japan from August 23-31, 2008. Rigaku will be exhibiting its advanced lines of single crystal X-ray diffraction and crystallization automation instrumentation at Booth #C-01. The large exhibit will showcase the latest in instrumentation—from small molecule to protein crystallography, from liquid handling to crystal imaging and from general purpose XRD to SAXS applications.
| New for Protein Crystallography On the protein crystallography side, Rigaku will feature the new Saturn A200 large aperture CCD detector, the high speed R-AXIS HTC image plate detector, the powerful dual wavelength FR-E+ SuperBright™ generator with VariMax™ X-ray optics, the easy to use Alchemist™ II screen maker and Desktop Minstrel™ UV (ultraviolet) crystallization plate imaging sytem. |
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Crystallography For small molecule crystallography, Rigaku will have the versatile new RAPID II curved image plate detector system. General purpose XRD systems will also be displayed, including the SmartLab, Ultima IV, and benchtop Miniflex II™. |
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| "Lunch and Learn" Seminars Rigaku will hold several "Lunch and Learn" seminars at IUCr this year featuring presentations by Angela Criswell,Ph.D., Craig Sterling, Lee Daniels, Ph.D. and Kazuhiko Omote, Ph.D. Rigaku will also be presenting in the main scientific program, including a talk on sulfur SAD phasing, a poster on using cobalt radiation for phasing protein crystals, a poster on a new X-ray optic for crystallography, and several posters on powder diffraction. |
For further information, contact:
Eric J. Hnath, Ph.D.
Director of Sales & Marketing, Life Sciences
tel: 281-362-2300 x242
eric.hnath@Rigaku.com