HILLSBORO, Ore. & MADISON, Wis., Apr 14, 2008 — FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC) and Imago Scientific Instruments today announced a comprehensive collaboration on the distribution and marketing of Imago’s LEAP(TM) product line. The arrangements allow for FEI to establish an equity position in Imago and the option to purchase Imago in the future. The alliance […]

Torrance, CA (April 14, 2008) – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the manufacture of separation science consumables, introduces the Zebron™ ZB-Bioethanol column for analysis of biofuels via gas chromatography. The new column was specially designed to meet the needs of bioethanol producers who must document the concentration of methanol and denaturant in fuel ethanol […]

Supreme milling. Third column makes NVision 40 even more versatileRTF Documents ALBUQUERQUE/New Mexico/USA , 04.08.2008. To enable the production of highly polished TEM lamellas Carl Zeiss SMT now offers an additional Argon ion beam column to its successful NVison 40 CrossBeam workstation. Highly polished TEM lamellas are a prerequisite for successful analysis of specimens in […]

PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. (April 7, 2008) ¾ Covidien (NYSE: COV, BSX: COV) today announced that Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc. is working with Ansell Healthcare, the world’s largest manufacturer of protective gloves and clothing, to promote safety in chemical handling and storage. The companies have joined forces to provide reference tools and guidelines that enable laboratory technicians to […]

Data Validates the World’s First Single Molecule Sequencing of an Organism CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Helicos BioSciences (NASDAQ: HLCS), a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced the publication of a report in Science Magazine demonstrating the first single molecule sequencing of an organism. The report depicts the use of Helicos’ proprietary True Single […]

Roche NimbleGen, a company of Roche Applied Science announced the commercial launch of its NimbleGen Sequence Capture technology for scientists interested in selecting targeted regions of the genome for high-throughput sequencing. This new technology enables researchers to easily and rapidly capture up to five million targeted bases from the human or mouse genomes. The technology […]

WEST CHESTER, PA, April 1, 2008 – VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply company, today announced that it has acquired Jencons (Scientific) Limited, a UK scientific laboratory supply distributor. Jencons is one of the UK’s largest suppliers of laboratory equipment and consumables with 110 employees. Based in the UK, the company also has […]

New Solution for Small RNA Discovery Enables New Experiments for Understanding Critical Biological and Disease Processes FOSTER CITY, Calif.–Only in recent years have scientists begun to understand the role of small, non-protein coding RNA molecules in living cells. Breakthroughs in science and technology have revealed that this newly discovered class of regulatory molecules plays a […]

Torrance, CA (March 20, 2008) – Phenomenex Inc., a leading worldwide manufacturer of separation science consumables, introduces a new line of columns for preparative chromatographic purification of synthetic DNA and RNA. The new Clarity Oligo-WAX media delivers high yields and purity coupled with high loading capacity. These new columns can be used in HPLC and […]

CHALFONT ST. GILES, England and MAIDSTONE, England, Feb. 4, 2008–GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and Whatman plc (LSE:WHM) announced today that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended acquisition of Whatman by GE Healthcare. Under the terms of the transaction, each Whatman shareholder will receive 270 pence in […]