Bayer Technology Services (BTS) is a well-known supplier of industrial chromatography products and services in the area of process technologies for the Bayer Group and for external customers. BTS as the technology company of Bayer has built up extensive know-how over decades in both preparative High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (batch HPLC), and continuous chromatography (SMB […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its acquisition of cancer diagnostics company Dako has been completed. Agilent, which paid $2.2 billion in cash for Dako (on a debt-free basis), expects the acquisition to help strengthen Agilent’s position in life sciences, with a focus on product development to help in the fight against cancer. […]

BOSTON, — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) and Boston Children’s Hospital, home of the world’s largest pediatric research enterprise, today announced a research and development collaboration to develop an end-to-end genetic sequencing lab workflow based on Life Technologies’ Ion Proton™ Sequencer. The parties plan to collaborate and develop an optimized laboratory infrastructure and lab protocols […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation — (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced a collaboration with the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Institute of Applied Genetics utilizing the company’s Ion Personal Genome Machine® (PGM™) system to further their research, development, and implementation of best technologies in forensic DNA analyses. The Ion PGM™ Sequencer does not […]

BEDFORD, Mass. and SAN DIEGO, Calif., — Hologic, Inc. (Hologic) (NASDAQ: HOLX) and Gen-Probe Incorporated (Gen-Probe) (NASDAQ: GPRO) today announced that, in connection with Hologic’s proposed acquisition of Gen-Probe, the initial 30-day waiting period required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, expired without a request for additional information from the Federal […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced it has partnered with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) to advance pediatric genomic research on the Ion Proton™ Sequencer. Under the agreement, the semiconductor-based platform will be the primary instrument on which multiple clinical research samples will be mapped daily on four sequencers in […]

NORCROSS, Ga.,– RayBiotech, Inc. and the combined genotyping core facility for Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo, located at the Institute for Cancer Research, announced the execution of an agreement to collaborate for the implementation of antibody-based sample analysis services. Under the terms of the agreement, the combined core facility will provide a […]

Manassas, VA, — ATCC, the premier biological materials resource and standards organization, announces that the organization can now accept into its collections and distribute a wide variety of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-containing biological materials. Through an agreement with Life Technologies Corporation, ATCC can sell products to distributors, non-commercial customers and government customers in the research […]

SAN FRANCISCO, California — At the 112th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) in San Francisco, Bruker announces a new collaboration with JMI Laboratories in the field of fungal identification by proteomics fingerprinting. JMI Laboratories is applying the Bruker MALDI Biotyper™ to a wide variety of international antimicrobial resistance surveillance studies utilizing […]

SAN FRANCISCO, California — At the 112th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) in San Francisco, Bruker announces a new collaboration with the Special Bacteriology Reference Laboratory (SBRL) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The SBRL receives approximately 800 isolates of rare and unusual bacteria from U.S. public […]