Wheaton Industries Inc., located in Millville, New Jersey announced today the acquisition of Laboratory Sales Limited (LSL), a leading manufacturer and marketer of tubular glass products and laboratory consumables based in Rochdale, England. Founded in 1980, LSL is a privately owned manufacturer and distributor of laboratory products that grew to become one of the U.K.’s […]

HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery, life sciences research and molecular diagnostics, today announced it has installed the 1000th IVIS preclinical imaging system, a milestone event in the continued rapid adoption of Caliper’s proprietary in vivo imaging solutions. The Center for Advanced […]

Olympus Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors named Michael C. Woodford to serve as the company’s president. Woodford will assume the office of President and Executive Officer on April 1, 2011, and upon the resolution passed at the annual shareholders meeting and the Board of Directors meeting set to be held on June […]

Oxford, UK – Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, has expanded its CytoSure™ product range to include high-throughput genomic DNA labelling kits and sample tracking spike-ins. These new products will further streamline workflow and minimise sample tracking errors when performing array comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH). […]

CHICAGO – NanoInk’s® NanoFabrication Systems Division is pleased to announce that the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, U.K., purchased a DPN® 5000 System to be used for the fabrication of nanostructured photonic metamaterials, nanophotonics and sensors. NanoInk’s DPN 5000 System is a full-featured, dedicated instrument for versatile nanopatterning of a variety […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Fluidigm Corporation today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,558,333 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $13.50 per share. The shares of common stock have been approved to trade on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “FLDM.” Deutsche Bank Securities […]

Oxford, UK – Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, has expanded its CytoSure™ product range to include high-throughput genomic DNA labelling kits and sample tracking spike-ins. These new products will further streamline workflow and minimise sample tracking errors when performing array comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH). […]

FREDERICK, Md. – Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostics (MDx) company that develops rapid, low-cost and highly scalable solutions for infectious disease testing, today announced it has signed a license agreement with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). The license agreement provides Akonni full access, under patents owned or licensed by USAMRIID […]

Porvair Filtration Group, a leading innovator in the fields of filtration and separation, has developed a new technology that has particular relevance to the rapidly expanding Epigenetics market and will be unveiling it at the Epigenetics World Congress in Boston in April 2011. Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is the key experimental technique used to investigate the […]

Gaithersburg, Md. – OpGen, Inc., a genomics and DNA analysis company and exclusive provider of optical mapping technology, today announced that BGI, the largest genomics organization in the world, purchased an Argus™ Optical Mapping System. BGI plans on incorporating the Argus system into its current sequencing platform for microbial genome sequence finishing and sequence validation. […]