Goettingen, – Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, has entered into a global sales and development partnership with Aber Instruments (Aber), a Welsh company for bioprocess and brewing equipment. Aber is a highly specialized supplier of sensor technology that is used by the biopharmaceutical industry for in-line […]

Pleasanton, CA — — IntegenX and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that they have signed a teaming agreement to pursue Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Awards supporting U.S. needs for detection of weapons of mass destruction. Support provided by IntegenX and SAIC will enable warfighters to complete their missions […]

Ithaca, NY & Muttenz, Switzerland – Advion, Inc., a leading life sciences Systems and Consumables developer, today announced that an exclusive OEM and distribution partnership agreement has been signed with CAMAG of Basel, Switzerland for its TLC/MS Interface product. Based upon excellent results obtained by joint Advion and CAMAG customers, as well as leading researchers, […]

BELLSHILL, SCOTLAND, : Following its announcement to expand into the Far East last month, certified specialist oligonucleotide reagent manufacturer Link Technologies Ltd, has agreed another distribution contract in Asia with Japanese company GeneDesign, Inc.. The deal comes just a few weeks after the signing of Zirench Technology for distribution in China. Link Technologies is ISO […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it is collaborating with Florida International University’s department of chemistry and biochemistry and its International Forensics Research Institute to further advance the identification and characterization of so-called designer drugs. This work is currently focused on developing and validating new methods for rapid forensic screening and analysis based on […]

Edinburgh Instruments, Livingston, UK, : Techcomp (Group) Ltd is pleased to announce the acquisition of the majority holding of shares in Edinburgh Instruments Ltd (EI) with immediate effect. EI is the world’s leading manufacturer of Lifetime Fluorescence Spectrometers, Lasers and Gas Sensors for scientific research and industrial markets. The business is based in Livingston, Scotland […]

St. Joseph, Mich.—LECO Corporation has announced its support of the West Coast Metabolomics Center, a new high-tech consortium of research and service laboratories housed within the University of California, Davis, Genome Center. As part of an agreement with LECO, the West Coast Metabolomics Center will receive access to the LECO Citius™ LC-HRT (High Resolution TOFMS) […]

NOVATO, CA, – Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Biosearch), a leading supplier of sophisticated, custom-manufactured oligonucleotides and specialty amidites and CPGs to the research and diagnostics markets, announced today that it has acquired the oligonucleotide manufacturing division of the Danish company DNA Technology A/S (DNA Technology) and German CPG manufacturer VitraBio GmbH (VitraBio). With the acquisition of […]

(DENVER, CO, US – 21 February 2013) – MPEG LA today announced that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has become a participating patent holder in Librassay® , MPEG LA’s licensing supermarket of diagnostic and research tool patent rights for tests and assays, kits, tools and instruments for biomarker detection and analysis, diagnostics and research. […]

SAN DIEGO, — Organovo Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: ONVO) (“Organovo”), a creator and manufacturer of functional, three-dimensional human tissues for medical research and therapeutic applications, and ZenBio Inc., a leading provider of advanced cell-based solutions and services, are partnering to produce three-dimensional human tissues for drug discovery and advanced tissue therapies. ZenBio will provide unique, validated […]