Männedorf, Switzerland — With clinical laboratories increasingly turning to high throughput LC-MSMS analysis, laboratory automation specialist Tecan and RECIPE Chemicals and Instruments GmbH, a leading manufacturer of IVD/CE diagnostic products, have announced a co-marketing agreement for automation of LC-MSMS IVD kits. Visitors to Booth #1 at MSACL 2014 EU in Salzburg, Austria, from the 2nd […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek is pleased to announce Dan Hannah, U.S. Field Service Manager, has been awarded the Patriot Award by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve program (ESGR), a Department of Defense office. An employee serving in the National Guard or Reserve, or the spouse of a Guard or Reserve member, […]

MADISON, WI — Promega Corporation announces its expansion into India with a 16th branch that serves the country’s scientific community with wide product availability, efficient delivery and technical support services. Promega Biotech India Private Ltd., a subsidiary of Promega Corporation, became fully operational on August 1, 2014. Located in New Delhi, India, the branch provides […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek is pleased to announce the availability of customizable pre-programmed protocols for Gen5™ Data Analysis Software designed to estimate Relative Potency according to the requirements of the USDA APHIS Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) guidelines published March 14, 2014. The CVBSOP0101.01 establishes the criteria that veterinary vaccine producers must use to […]

Alexandria, Minnesota, USA and Hoddesdon, UK -– Douglas Scientific and LGC announced today that they have formalized an exclusive distribution agreement for the sale of Douglas Scientific’s innovative Array Tape® Platform. Under the terms of this agreement LGC will represent and distribute the existing and future Array Tape laboratory automation platforms in Europe, Middle East […]

Moorestown, NJ — IonField Systems, the pioneer in plasma cleaning technology for life science applications, is pleased to announce the award of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant totaling $1,000,000 for the development of an automated system to clean microplates with cold plasma technology. This project has been funded in whole or […]

Matsudo, Japan – Precision System Science, Co., Ltd. (PSS) has agreed with Roka Bioscience, Inc., (Roka) on an OEM Agreement for developing automated molecular diagnostics system and disposables which are used with the instrument. According to this agreement, PSS will develop and manufacture the fully automated molecular detection system. “We, both PSS and Roka, understand […]

Boston, MA –– Andrew Alliance announced today that the Company will be opening up a Boston office in Copley Square. The Company also announced the closing of a series B financing round from Omega Funds, a leading global healthcare fund specializing in late stage life science investments. The Omega investment will enable Andrew Alliance to […]

Männedorf, Switzerland — The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today announced the acquisition of IBL International as an important strategic step to support Tecan’s evolution into a solutions business with a higher share of recurring revenues. IBL International is a leading company in the field of microtiter plate based immunoassays with one of the […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific has signed an agreement with NewLab Engineering, a subsidiary of COPAN Italia, for the exclusive global rights to distribute Card Processing Automation (CPA) technology, which is designed to prepare DNA samples for human identification in forensic, paternity and research laboratories. Under the agreement, Thermo Fisher is the sole distributor […]