With its mandatory offer for Analytik Jena AG, Endress+Hauser has secured a three-quarter majority share in the company. The cash offer for 73,641 shares was accepted before the 28 November 2014 deadline and corresponds to 0.96 percent of the ordinary shares and voting rights. Thus a total of 76.25 percent of Analytik Jena’s voting rights […]

Rockville, MD — New life science features include colocalization of multiple fluorescent images or channels; learning classification of tissues or cells using multiple parameters for Pathologists; automated wound healing analysis; and advanced ring analysis for otoliths, scales and trees. New industrial inspection and material analysis features include layer thickness measurements; wire bonding corrosion analysis; bubble, […]

Houston, TX., USA –– After the successful release of its IRIS software in the United States in March 2012, PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, has recently launched this advanced instrument data integration software designed specifically for PAC laboratory instruments globally. IRIS Software provides customers the […]

Paris, France — AgileBio, an IT solutions specialist providing web-based software for life sciences, announces the release of a new version of its Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), a complimentary application for its LIMS, LabCollector. ELN is an efficient and simple notebook to store, organize, find and share all researchers laboratory experiments in a variety of […]

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR today announced that the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute entered into a multi-year software license agreement with DNASTAR for the use of Lasergene software as its primary sequence assembly and analysis software platform for researchers within its organization. A spokesperson for the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute said, “The Sanger Institute is one […]

OAKLAND, Calif. & SALT LAKE CITY — Omicia, Inc., has announced a partnership with the University of Utah’s Utah Genome Project. Under a two-year licensing agreement with Omicia, the University will use and advance Opal, the company’s whole genome analysis platform for research and clinical applications. The agreement enables the University’s researchers and clinicians to […]

Strand Life Sciences Private Limited, a global life sciences company headquartered in Bangalore, is collaborating with the San Francisco Bay Area based El Camino Hospital to locate a Strand Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at the Genomic Medicine Institute of the El Camino Hospital to accelerate the adoption of next generation sequencing based research […]

PITTSBURGH and SAN DIEGO — ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS), a global leader and innovator of engineering simulation software, announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Reaction Design, a leading developer of chemistry simulation software. The transaction is expected to close in January 2014. Management will provide further details regarding the transaction […]

Basel, Switzerland – Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced its successful collaboration with AstraZeneca on data analysis for compound combination experiments. Drug combination studies, which are increasingly used in pre-clinical research, produce large volumes of data with upwards to 200 combinations per experiment. Genedata […]

SALT LAKE CITY — Dr. Mingfu Zhu, previously of the Duke Center for Human Genome Variation, has announced his new position with Tute Genomics as Director of Bioinformatics. Dr. Zhu’s extensive work with structural variation analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data from whole genomes places Tute ahead of other analytic engines in applying structural variant […]