CARLSBAD, Calif.,– Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its stockholders voted to adopt the previously announced merger agreement providing for the acquisition of Life Technologies by Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO) at the Special Meeting of Stockholders held earlier today. More than 98 percent of votes cast at the Special Meeting were in […]

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J., — BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRLI) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Edge BioSystems CLIA laboratory business and related assets (“Edge BioServ”), primarily a genetic sequencing service business located in Gaithersburg, MD. GeneDx, BRLI’s wholly-owned clinical diagnostic sequencing laboratory, will acquire the Edge BioServ genetic […]

Porvair Sciences offers a range of high quality, large volume microplates (5ml, 7ml and 10ml) to meet the special requirements of storage / transport applications in combinatorial chemistry, environmental and food technology markets. Produced under class 10,000 clean room conditions from virgin polypropylene, each 24-well (10ml) and 48-well (5ml and 7ml) plate contains no contaminants […]

A University of Colorado Boulder faculty member will travel to Africa later this month to test a mobile smartphone technology developed by his team to rapidly detect and track natural carcinogens, including aflatoxin, which is estimated to contaminate up to 25 percent of the global food supply and cause severe illnesses in humans and animals. […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the availability of its newest reagent kits for the MiSeq, the industry’s most accurate and easiest-to-use benchtop sequencer. The improved chemistry doubles sequencing output to 15 gigabases (Gb) by increasing the number of sequencing reads (up to 25 million reads) and overall read length (up to 2×300 […]

Milford, Massachusetts, – SeraCare Life Sciences, a leader in life science products for the diagnostic industry, has acquired Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories (KPL). KPL is a leading provider of antibodies and related reagents for the diagnostic and life sciences markets. With the acquisition, SeraCare has expanded its portfolio of products designed to help diagnostic researchers […]

Sunnyvale, California, – Molecular Devices® today announced the launch of its Fura-2 QBT™ Calcium Kit. This new kit combines the calcium indicator Fura-2 with Molecular Devices’ proprietary masking technology to provide a fast, simple, and reliable ratiometric fluorescence-based assay for detecting and quantitating changes in intracellular calcium. Utilizing Molecular Devices’ masking technology, the Fura-2 QBT […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF., – Government and industry laboratories worldwide have a new resource for improving methods for monitoring and measuring pesticides in food and the environment. The new Thermo Fisher Scientific Pesticide Analysis Center of Excellence (COE) recently opened its doors in Runcorn, UK to help users apply the latest technology and expertise to challenging […]

BOTHELL, WA —— BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells and tissues, andcontract aseptic media manufacturer, today announced an expansion of its relationship with Vancouver, BC-based STEMCELL Technologies Inc. Since August 2009, STEMCELL Technologies has distributed BioLife’s best in […]

Berlin, Germany,– caprotec bioanalytics GmbH and Syngenta International AG announced today a joint research agreement in which Syngenta will gain access to caprotec’s proprietary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) technology. The companies will work together to profile the interactions of one of Syngenta’s novel active compounds with the proteome in its relevant plant biological system. […]