SANTA CLARA, Calif., — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has entered into an exclusive supply agreement with LipoScience Inc. to provide nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) components for LipoScience’s Vantera Clinical Analyzer. The analyzer is the first fully-automated NMR diagnostic platform designed specifically for the clinical laboratory and cleared by the U.S. […]

ST. LOUIS, –Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) today signed an OEM agreement with AB SCIEX, a leading company for high end mass spectrometry instruments, to globally distribute its mass spectrometry based tagging chemistries called SCIEX iChemistryTM Solutions for applications in basic research and applied markets. The agreement strengthens the existing Sigma-Aldrich portfolio of reagents for mass […]

Framingham, Mass. -AB Sciex Pte. Ltd, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced a distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich® to resell the company’s portfolio of mass spectrometry-based tagging chemistries called SCIEX iChemistryTM Solutions. This portfolio of advanced chemistries includes the industry-leading iTRAQ® reagents for proteomics and IDQuantTM standards for pesticide analysis. Sigma-Aldrich will […]

Shanghai, China –– ShanghaiBio Corporation and Ingenuity® Systems have signed a collaboration agreement enabling ShanghaiBio Corporation to extend its current lab service offering to include Ingenuity solutions for downstream analysis and interpretation of genomics data. ShanghaiBio Corporation will complement their sequencing, genotyping and gene expression lab services by creating a bundled solution with Ingenuity’s applications, […]

Ahlstrom, a global high performance materials company, has today signed an agreement to acquire the Sweden-based Munktell Filter AB as a strategic step to grow the advanced filtration business particularly in life science and laboratory applications. Under the agreement, Ahlstrom will acquire 100 percent of the shares in Munktell Filter AB, as well as its […]

Marlborough, MA – Block Engineering, a leading manufacturer of Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) and FTIR spectrometers, has added the Griot Group to its family of sales representatives. “I am delighted at our partnership with the Griot Group, a sales organization founded on the principles of delivering high technology solutions that best fit the needs of […]

Microsaic Systems plc (AIM: MSYS),today announces that Biotage AB (Uppsala, Sweden), a leading global supplier of laboratory equipment, will be presenting its fully integrated solution for ‘Mass Directed Flash’ purification at JASIS 2012 (Japan Analytical Scientific Instruments Show) in Makuhari Messe, Japan (5-7 September). This is the first time Biotage has presented the new system, […]

Männedorf, Switzerland, – Tecan and Siloam Biosciences Inc. announce their intent to co-market a new automated low volume, high sensitivity microfluidic ELISA. The system is based on Tecan’s Freedom EVO® liquid handling technology and the Siloam Biosciences’ OptiMax™ microplate. It offers rapid, sensitive and specific chemifluorescence-based ELISA procedures using exceedingly small sample volumes. The speed, […]

YOKOHAMA, Japan — The Netzsch Analyzing & Testing division and Bruker Corporation today announced jointly that Netzsch Japan K.K. has acquired Bruker’s Thermal Analysis instruments business in Japan. Together with the well-established international Netzsch group, Netzsch Japan will further develop, produce, distribute and service the existing and new Thermal Analysis product lines. Financial details of […]

Vellore, India, and Villach, Austria –. Centre for Bio Separations Technology (CBST)/VIT University (Campus: Vellore, India Chancellor: Dr. G Viswanathan CBST Director: Prof. M. A. Vijayalakshmi) and BIA Separations (Head Office: Villach, Austria, Managing Director and CEO: Dr. Aleš Štrancar) announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 31st August 2012 and entered […]