Rigaku Americas Corp.

In Carlsbad, Calif., Rigaku Americas Corp. has entered into an agreement with TTP LabTech of Royston, UK, to offer the mosquito nanoliter pipetting system as part of its Rigaku CrystalMation platform for automated protein crystallization experiments. The mosquito technology will be implemented on a custom basis for customers who perform high-throughput research on membrane proteins. Used in the pharmaceutical industry for rational drug design, it is suitable also for DNA and RNA research.