Kleve/Balve, Germany, – Two highly respected industry leaders, SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH and BALVER ZINN Josef Jost GmbH & Co. KG, have joined forces in developing a joint application for tin solder bath analysis that they are presenting at the SMT Hybrid Packaging Trade Fair at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre, April 26 to 28, 2016. […]
Mountain View, CA, and Coralville, IA — Takara Bio USA, Inc. (TBUSA, formerly Clontech Laboratories, Inc.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., and Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) announced a new collaboration to support targeted RNA sequencing. This relationship will leverage IDT’s unrivalled proficiency in the manufacture and quality control of long oligonucleotides and […]
Paris, April 21, 2016 – Safran (Euronext Paris: SAF) announced that it has reached an agreement to sell Morpho Detection LLC, a US-based subsidiary of Safran, and other detection related activities to Smiths Group plc for an enterprise value of $710 million. Headquartered in Newark, California, Morpho Detection provides solutions for detecting and identifying chemical, […]
SAN DIEGO, CA — Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), the genomics-based, technology-driven company working to revolutionize the practice of medicine, announced today a 10 year deal with AstraZeneca to sequence and analyze up to 500,000 DNA samples from AstraZeneca clinical trials. The genomic insights from the collaboration will be added to the HLI Knowledgebase™, building upon […]
WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, announced that it sold its U. S. prenatal screening laboratory services business PerkinElmer Labs/NTD (“NTD”) to Eurofins Scientific. “Recent changes to U.S. healthcare reform continue to drive the consolidation of diagnostics testing towards […]
Hillsboro, Ore. and Heidelberg, Germany – FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) and CEOS announced that they have delivered the first sub-Ångstrom, low-voltage electron (SALVE) microscope to the University of Ulm. The microscope, equipped with a Cc/Cs-corrector from CEOS, was developed in collaboration with the University of Ulm. It uses electrons with energies between 20keV and 80keV, much […]
UK based specialist diagnostic manufacturer, The Binding Site Group Ltd, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive, definitive agreement with Rockland Immunochemicals, Inc., of Limerick, PA, to grant Rockland global distribution rights for Binding Site’s line of animal-focused radial immunodiffusion (RID) test kits. The availability of this unique range of products […]
Park Systems, world-leader in atomic force microscopy (AFM) announced the appointments of Charlie Park as Senior Vice President of Global Sales, and Jong-Pil Park as Vice President of Production. The new Vice Presidents will develop strategic global sales initiatives and further Park’s best-in-class position as the world’s leading AFM manufacturer by enhancing production capabilities to […]
Smiths Group plc (“Smiths Group” or the “Group”) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Morpho Detection (“Morpho Detection” or the “Business”), a California-based detection and security solutions company, from Safran S.A. (“Safran”) for an enterprise value of $710 million (£493 million1) (the “Acquisition”). The closing of the Acquisition is subject to […]
New York, NY — Researchers from Columbia Engineering, with colleagues at Genia Technologies (Roche), Harvard University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report achieving real-time single molecule electronic DNA sequencing at single-base resolution using a protein nanopore array. DNA sequencing is the key technology for personalized and precision medicine initiatives, enabling rapid […]
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