HERCULES, CA, — The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), USDA issued a $100,000 award for the development of Bovine Parentage Genotyping by Highly Multiplex Next Generation Sequencing. This project is related to a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between Eureka Genomics and the Agricultural Research Service, USDA to develop a low cost, […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is awarding $2 million to 25 companies throughout the nation in support of technology development toward sustainable solutions for the environment. The SBIR program is part of EPA’s Technology Innovation for Environmental and Economic Progress: An EPA Roadmap, which focuses on […]

Franklin Lakes, NJ – The Board of Directors of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX) has declared a quarterly dividend of 45 cents per common share, payable on June 29, 2012 to holders of record on June 8, 2012. The indicated annual dividend rate is $1.80 per share. About BD BD is a leading global […]

White Plains, N.Y.,– Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, announced today that CMS Field Products, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xylem’s OI Analytical brand, has entered into a $12.3 million contract with Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass, a systems contractor selected by the U.S. […]

ST. LOUIS, – Sigma-Aldrich announced today that it has established a new $600 million revolving credit facility that will mature on May 10, 2017. The new facility replaces a $450 million revolving credit facility that was scheduled to mature on December 11, 2012. The $600 million facility will provide back-up liquidity for the commercial paper […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – May 14, 2012 – DNASTAR® announced that it has received a Phase I SBIR grant award from the National Institutes of Health entitled, “Structural bioinformatics software for epitope selection and antibody engineering”. The funding will support the company’s research and development aimed at producing a superior antibody engineering capability on a desktop […]

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd, a privately held company that is developing a disruptive technology for the real-time electronic analysis of single molecules, today announced that it has raised £31.4 million ($50.8 million) in new funding via a private placement of ordinary shares in the Company. “This round of funding, nearly all of which comes from […]

Berwyn, PA, — AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced its Board of Directors has declared a three-for-two stock split and approved a 50% increase in the quarterly cash dividend on its common stock. The three-for-two split of its common stock will result in the issuance of one additional common share for every two shares owned […]

Falmouth, Mass. — AVIA Biosystems announced today that it has been awarded a $1.25M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health. The award supports the development of instrumentation to measure the stability of biotherapeutics. AVIA Biosystems will design, develop, manufacture and sell new laboratory instrumentation for the bioanalytical and biophysical […]