SAN DIEGO -Illumina, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and function, today issued the following statement regarding Roche’s decision to extend its unsolicited tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Illumina for $44.50 in cash per common share: “The extension […]

Munich, Germany – Nanion acquires the well-established SURFE2R technology, allowing state-of-the-art measurements of transporter protein activity and function. The SURFE2R technology is an excellent enhancement to Nanion’s existing products which until now covered ion channels and nanopores. Nanion Technologies is one of the leading providers of high quality automated patch clamp systems. Nanion’s efficient and […]

Fusion IP plc (AIM: FIP), the university IP commercialisation company that turns world class research into business, is pleased to announce that Certara LP (“Certara”), a leading provider of drug discovery and development software and scientific consulting services, has agreed to acquire Fusion?s portfolio company, Simcyp Limited (“Simcyp”), for $32M. Simcyp is a leading research-based […]

North Brunswick, NJ, Distek, Inc., an industry leader in dissolution testing products and validation services, has acquired all Fiber Optic UV related assets from LEAP Technologies which includes OPT DISS, OD LITE, ARCH, and SoLo products. Fiber Optic UV is used extensively in the pharmaceutical industry for in-situ dissolution testing due to its rapid sampling […]

ST. LOUIS, MO – Certara™, a leading provider of drug discovery and development software and scientific consulting services and a Vector portfolio company, today announced agreement to acquire Simcyp Limited. Simcyp is a UK-based, leading research company providing a modeling and simulation platform for predicting the fate of drugs in virtual populations, including pediatric populations. […]

Morgantown, Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. (“Protea”), a leading bioanalytics company, announced today it had begun a research collaboration with the laboratory of Gary J. Van Berkel, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Staff and Group Leader, Organic and Biological Mass Spectrometry Group, in the Chemical Sciences Division, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, located in Oak Ridge Tennessee. Under […]

Mountain View, CA/Galway, Ireland, Compact Imaging Inc. (CI) today announced an innovative research collaboration with National University of Ireland Galway and University of Limerick. The two-year agreement, in the scientific field of biophotonics, specifically optical coherence tomography (OCT), will explore and further develop CI’s novel technologies. OCT is an imaging technique similar to ultrasound, but […]

New York, NY,(Marco Island, FL) – New York Genome Center (NYGC), in collaboration with Illumina, today announced at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) annual meeting the initiation of a large-scale whole genome sequencing project with the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, an Institutional Founding Member […]

Tokyo, Japan / New York, NY, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation (TSE: 4901, hereinafter: Fujifilm), a diversified technology company that operates in healthcare, highly functional materials, and document solutions, announced today the successful completion of a tender offer through its indirect wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary Salmon Acquisition Corporation (hereinafter: Purchaser) for all outstanding shares of common stock of […]