Chalfont St Giles, UK – GE Healthcare has announced the creation of GE Healthcare Life Sciences – a new business, involving the combination of two existing businesses – Protein Separations and Discovery Systems and is effective immediately. By this move GE Healthcare confirms the company’s ongoing investment and commitment to the protein and life science […]

BOSTON — At the Bio-IT World Magazine World Life Sciences Conference + Expo, Microsoft Corp. announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group working to further integrate science and technology as a first step toward making personalized medicine a reality. The alliance unites the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hardware and software industries to explore new […]

Santa Clara, CA 1/5/05—Affymetrix has announced that it expects fourth quarter 2005 revenues of $115 million, $15 million below the company’s previous guidance of $120 million. Affymetrix estimates 2005 total revenues of $365 million, for annual growth of 5.5%, and 2005 product and product-related revenues of $350 million, for growth of 5.7%. In 2006, Affymetrix […]

Berlin- Berlin-based JPK Instruments AG and Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG from Karlsruhe can look back on five years of successful collaboration. JPK Instruments decided in the early development phase of the company to bet on the technology of the market leader PI. From the very first, JPK’s NanoWizard® atomic force microscopes were […]

Quantron, Inc. Advanced Analytical Systems 180 Boulder Drive Suite 120 Fitchburg, MA 01420 Tel: 978-345-3951 Fax: 978-345-5048 Email: [email protected] Quantron, Inc. has established itself within the past two years in North America with close to thirty successful installations. Quantron’s innovative spark spectrometers with new technology and rugged design, are the ideal analysis systems for both […]

BOSTON—PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) announced today that it has determined the purchase price to be paid in connection with its previously announced cash tender offer and consent solicitation for any and all of its outstanding 8 7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 and that $269.891 million, or 99.96% of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of […]

Franklin Lakes, NJ—BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), today announced plans to expand manufacturing in Puerto Rico and to begin production of selected reagent products there starting in 2007.The $42 million capital investment project is expected to create over 100 new positions at the Cayey, Puerto Rico facility, which currently supports […]

Goettingen, October 20, 2005 – The Sartorius Group, a leading laboratory and process equipment provider worldwide, closed the first nine months of the year 2005 with increases in sales revenue and earnings. The Biotechnology Division in particular grew profitably because of the excellent development of its filter business for biopharmaceutical applications. The Mechatronics Division with […]

Hillsboro, OR -FEI Company announced it is realigning its sales, marketing and R&D organizations to focus on three markets: NanoElectronics; NanoResearch and NanoBiology. NanoElectronics will focus on semiconductor industry products and applications, NanoResearch will target research and industrial applications and NanoBiology would focus on drug discovery, therapeutic and diagnostics. “We believe that our focus around […]