London, UK 7/3/12; Vleuten, Netherlands 7/6/12—Verder Group has acquired Carbolite from Nova Capital Management for an undisclosed amount. UK-based Carbolite manufactures laboratory and industrial furnaces. The company has 160 employees and sells its products directly in the UK, Germany and France. Carbolite will join Verder’s Laboratory division as a stand-alone unit. “The excellent market position […]

Portland, Maine, – EnviroLogix announced today that it has signed a collaborative agreement with Douglas Scientific to develop and optimize solutions for high throughput real time and endpoint nucleic acid analysis. The companies will leverage and build upon EnviroLogix’ revolutionary isothermal DNAble v2.0 chemistry and Douglas Scientific’s disruptive Array Tape Platform. The DNAble isothermal amplification […]

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, — SensiQ Technologies, Inc. has been acquired by private equity firm TechVen Partners, and will seek to aggressively expand the market reach of its Label-Free Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) devices for biomolecular interaction analysis. “We’re ready to shake things up. With new resources, we are set to expand promotion of SensiQ’s innovative […]

MENLO PARK, Calif., and LEUVEN, Belgium–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer and Belgium-based nanoelectronics research center imec today announced a multi-year research collaboration focused on the development of advanced microchips for highly multiplexed single molecule genetic analysis. This research and development project will build […]

Expanding both its global reach and sales of its new QS-B220 system, Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today announced that it has added a new distributor in Switzerland. This is the Company’s first distributor in that country. The new […]

BEDFORD, Mass., — Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or the Company) (NASDAQ: HOLX) announced today the pricing of its private placement of $1.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of its 6.25% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Notes”). The offering is expected to close concurrently with the completion of Hologic’s acquisition of Gen-Probe Incorporated (NASDAQ: GPRO). The acquisition […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced it has signed a collaborative partnership with the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), and several groups of leading expert scientists in antibody technology at the Universities of Chicago and Toronto, to generate a first-ever master set of quality epigenetic recombinant antibodies for use in disease-related research. […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the creation of a new center for neurometabolomics research and training in the city of Daegu. The center will serve as the base for the company’s collaboration with the department of brain science at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) and the city. This is […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.– SciFluor Life Sciences, a drug discovery and development company harnessing the transformational power of fluorine to accelerate the development of innovative new therapeutics, today announced the availability of one of its novel fluorination technologies for expanded use by industry and academic researchers. Recently developed by Tobias Ritter, Ph.D., co-founder and chief scientific advisor […]

Heidelberg, – SYGNIS Pharma AG (Frankfurt: LIOK; ISIN DE000A1E9B74; Prime Standard) and GENETRIX announced today, that the biotechnology companies SYGNIS and GENETRIX have signed a binding Term Sheet under which the companies propose to combine the GENETRIX’ DNA sequencing subsidiary X-Pol Biotech and SYGNIS. Goal is to develop and market XPol Biotech, S.L.’s DNA sequencing […]