Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has completed the acquisition of the BioSystem Development business. BioSystem Development is a privately held company that develops and manufactures the AssayMAP Microchromatography platform to meet the analytical needs of the life sciences industry. Agilent announced the signing of an acquisition agreement on Dec. 1. Financial details […]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., – Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire ForteBio®, Inc., a leading provider of advanced analytical systems that accelerate the discovery and development of biotech drugs. The transaction is expected to close by February of […]

South Easton, MA – Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBIO) (“PBI” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Germany-based life sciences company IUL Instruments GmbH (“IUL”). Under the terms of the agreement, IUL will have the exclusive right to market and sell PBI’s Pressure Cycling Technology (“PCT”) sample preparation […]

GOETTINGEN, Germany–Yesterday Sartorius, a leading international process and laboratory technology provider, successfully completed its acquisition of the liquid handling business of the Finnish laboratory supplier Biohit Oyj. The transaction had been announced on October 26, 2011. With this purchase, Sartorius is pursuing its strategy to expand its product offering for laboratory applications. Mechanical and electronic […]

CAMBRIDGE, England & BUDAPEST, Hungary & BOSTON–Linguamatics and ChemAxon are pleased to announce that they are partnering in a new, path-breaking project funded by EUREKA’s Eurostars Programme. The project is code-named “ChiKEL”, which means Chemically Informed Knowledge Extraction from Literature. ChiKEL will provide the first interactive text mining system designed for chemistry, integrating advanced chemical […]

Claremont BioSolutions announces distributor in Japan to expand sales and marketing efforts worldwide. (PRWEB) December 14, 2011 Claremont BioSolutions, LLC announced today that it has reached an agreement with Funakoshi for the distribution of its products for sample preparation, DNA isolation, and protein purification in Japan. The agreement reflects ClaremontBio’s expansion of its marketing efforts […]

Gaithersburg, Maryland – Ocimum Biosolutions, Inc. (d/b/a Gene Logic) today announced that it has retained Burrill & Company, Inc. as its strategic advisor. Burrill will assist the company in evaluating strategic alternatives related to Gene Logic and its assets, which could include a sale of its US-based company, operations or its assets. Burrill is actively […]

The prerequisites for the completion of the sale of Biohit Oyj’s liquid handling business to Sartorius Lab Holding GmbH have been met; the companies completed the sale on 14 December 2011. Upon the sale’s completion, Biohit’s liquid handling business transferred to Sartorius. The parties signed the sales contract on the sale of the liquid handling […]

Chalfont St Giles, UK and Stuttgart, Germany – GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE) and M+W Group, a leading global engineering, construction and project management company, announced today that the companies have formed a strategic alliance aimed at overcoming the lack of key biopharmaceuticals, especially in emerging nations. The alliance, which will […]

PARIS, Jean-Lou Chameau, president of the California Institute of Technology, and Laurent Malier, CEO of CEA-Leti, today announced the launch of Analytical Pixels (APIX), the first startup to emerge from their Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI. APIX will design, manufacture, and bring to market analysis systems based on a new concept of miniaturized chromatography. By applying […]