Rigaku Shows New Products at IUCr 2008

THE WOODLANDS, TX -- 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.

New for XRD and Chemical Crystallography
For small molecule crystallography, Rigaku will have the world premere of the new XtaLAB mini single crystal diffractometer and feature 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™.

"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 more information, please contact:

Eric J. Hnath, Ph.D.
Director of Marketing, Life Sciences
Rigaku Americas Corporation
tel: 1-281-362-2300 ext.242
Eric.Hnath@Rigaku.com

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