Private equity fund manager and Enterprise Investment Scheme specialist Calculus Capital has invested £2.25m in an Imperial College spin-out that has developed emissions detection technologies used to monitor air pollution in major cities and industrial centres around the world. Duvas Technologies (“Duvas”) produces equipment that enables remote sensing and identification of airborne chemicals and gases […]

Radnor, PA, – VWR Corporation (NASDAQ: VWR) announced the commencement of an underwritten public offering of 8,000,000 shares of its common stock by selling stockholder Varietal Distribution Holdings, LLC pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”). VWR will not receive any proceeds from this offering. […]

WALTHAM, Mass. & SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, and Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX), a leading provider of cellular and genetic analysis products, announced that Thermo Fisher has completed its previously announced acquisition of Affymetrix for $14.00 per share in cash, for a total purchase […]

Halifax, N.S. – 4Deep Inwater Imaging of Halifax is developing the world’s first underwater fluorescence microscope, a device that will detect harmful algae at a very early stage. The microscope is expected to become a standard instrument in water quality monitoring and research, with applications in public health, aquaculture and shell fisheries. The Government of […]

HOLLISTON, Mass., March 28, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO) (the “Company”), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of solutions to advance life science, announced that the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 (the “Form 10-K”) would not occur prior […]

WALTHAM, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, issued the following statement regarding Affymetrix, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AFFX) press release dated March 28, 2016: JP Morgan is acting as financial advisor to Thermo Fisher, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is serving as legal counsel.“We are pleased that the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX, “Affymetrix” or the “Company”) announced that the Company’s Board of Directors, in consultation with its legal and financial advisors, has determined that the new unsolicited merger proposal submitted by Origin Technologies Corporation, LLC (“Origin”) on March 22, 2016, could reasonably be expected to lead to a Superior Proposal, […]

Lexington, Mass. – Quanterix Corporation, a leader in the transformation of healthcare through its ultrasensitive single molecule testing capabilities, announced it secured $46 million in Series D funding from both new and existing investors. This infusion of capital will allow Quanterix to build on the significant growth realized in the last two years. Proceeds will […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX, “Affymetrix” or the “Company”) announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has informed Origin Technologies Corporation, LLC (“Origin”) that the Company will engage in discussions with Origin regarding its unsolicited merger proposal submitted on March 22, 2016 to acquire the Company for $17.00 per share in an […]