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17 May 2010
Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Varian, Inc
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its acquisition of scientific-equipment maker Varian, Inc. is now final... > MORE INFO
18 December 2009
Oxford Diffraction holds second annual EU User Meeting

Oxford Diffraction recently held its annual EU user meeting at its UK headquarters in Yarnton, Oxford...

 

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08 December 2008
Oxford Diffraction hold Europe Region Small Molecule User Meeting

To coincide with the opening of our new UK demonstration facilities and the recent launch of the SuperNova product, Oxford Diffraction will be hosting a Europe region user meeting during the 8th and 9th December.

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18 November 2008
Oxford Diffraction builds on User Community with launch of User Forum

Oxford Diffraction have designed a web based user forum to provide their global users with a resource for the exchange of ideas and tips relating to their X-ray diffraction systems, and to encourage scientific collaborations and crystallographic discussion.

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24 August 2008
New Dual Wavelength X-ray Diffractometer from Oxford Diffraction, now a part of Varian, Inc., Allows Increased Throughput for Challenging Single Crystal Analyses

Oxford, UK - Oxford Diffraction, Now a part of Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) introduced its new dual wavelength X-ray diffractometer for the analysis of small molecules and proteins. The SuperNova is the first dual wavelength diffraction system to use entirely high intensity micro-source X-ray technology. It includes innovations in both X-ray technology and data analysis, enabling faster results even for the most challenging crystals.

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30 March 2007
King's College London to invest in state-of-the-art equipment for structural biology

The Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics at King's College London have confirmed their investment in an Oxford Diffraction PX Scanner and an Xcalibur Nova system.

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11 July 2007
'LIVE' PX SCANNER DEMO AT ACA BOOTH 203

Oxford Diffraction continues to innovate and push the boundaries in everything we do. This time we're running a 'Live' demo of our in situ X-ray diffraction product PX Scanner. From the 21st July until the 25th, we'll have a 'working' PX Scanner on our exhibition booth no. 203 at the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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23 August 2007
Ultimate quality X-ray data from ATLAS - the fastest commercially available CCD detector

The all new Atlas CCD detector from Oxford Diffraction is the ideal detector for high speed, high resolution data collections on small molecules. As the fastest commercially available CCD detector the Atlas is up to 3.5 times faster than other CCD detectors.

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09 November 2007
Max Plank Institute celebrate opening of a state-of-the-art Protein Structural Biology Laboratory.

Guests from the Martinsried Max Planck Institutes mingled with structural biologists from the nearby research centres in both Munich (Gene Center, Technical University and GSF) and T-bingen, as well as with representatives of local companies from the Martinsried Biotech campus.

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07 April 2008
Varian, Inc. Acquires Oxford Diffraction, Ltd.

Palo Alto, CA - Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) announced today that it has acquired Oxford Diffraction, Ltd., a privately owned company based in Abingdon, U.K. Oxford Diffraction is a leader in x-ray crystallography, an analytical technique used by scientists in pharmaceutical research and other research laboratories to determine the structure of both small molecules and large molecules such as proteins.

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30 March 2009
$21.5 billion Extra for US Science through American Recovery and Re-investment Act (ARRA) 2009

Following the announcement of the $787 billion funding package by President Obama, these key facts relate to the allocation for scientific research...

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Upcoming Events

14 – 17 November

Protein Structure Determination in Industry (PSDI)

Oxford, UK

09 – 10 November 2010

Advances in Protein Crystallography

Florence, Italy

31 October – 3 November 2010

Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) 2010 Meeting

Busan, Korea

13 – 16 October 2010

Murnau Conference on Structural Biology

Murnau, Germany

12 – 16 September 2010

13th International Conference on the Crystallisation of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM13)

Dublin, Ireland

5 – 7 September 2010

Annual Conference of the British Association for Crystal Growth (BACG)

Manchester, UK

29 August – 2 September 2010

European Crystallographic Association 2010 Meeting (ECM)

Darmstadt, Germany

22 – 26 August 2010

240th American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting

Boston, MA

 

Oxford Diffraction Limited, based in Yarnton, near Oxford in the UK, was spun out of Oxford Instruments plc in March 2001 in order to develop, manufacture and supply analytical instrumentation for X-ray crystallography. The company emerged from a successful alliance between Oxford Instruments and a dynamic young company in Wroclaw, Poland, called Kuma Diffraction, which itself had spun out from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1993. Since its start, Oxford Diffraction has grown extremely rapidly and now has over 250 X-ray crystallography systems for both chemical and protein crystallography installed all around the world in more than 25 countries. These are supported from our regional offices in Europe, North America and Asia, or by our distributors and agents in other territories.
 
In April 2008 Oxford Diffraction was acquired by the major scientific instrumentation company, Varian, Inc. Agilent Technologies acquired Varian in May 2010 and now Oxford Diffraction is a part of Agilent Technologies