PERTH, Australia, and SINGAPORE – The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the Australian Research Centre’s Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology located in UWA will use Agilent’s informatics systems in its research to build the world’s first plant protein monitoring database. The database will serve […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and BIRKENFELD, Germany — Quanterix Corporation, a company enabling a new generation of molecular diagnostic tests based on its revolutionary Single Molecule Array (SiMoA™) technology, and STRATEC Biomedical AG (Frankfurt: SBS; Prime Standard, TecDAX), a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of automated analyzer systems, today announced an agreement to co-develop and […]

In collaboration with Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge), Dolomite, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic solutions, has designed a glass microfluidic device for a novel laser tool that allows the study of mechanical properties of cells using optical stretching on a single cell basis. This new […]

Chalfont St Giles, UK – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire PAA Laboratories, a developer and supplier of cell culture media for biomedical research and the fast-growing biopharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing industry. The acquisition of PAA Laboratories will allow GE Healthcare to expand […]

Spectris plc, the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Omega Engineering business. The purchase consideration of US$475 million (approximately £290 million), on a debt and cash-free basis, will be met from cash and new bank facilities and is subject to routine balance sheet adjustments. Omega […]

Billerica, MA – Seahorse Bioscience, Inc., the leader in the design and development of instruments for assessing cellular bioenergetics, has announced Research Instruments Pte Ltd as the distributor of Seahorse XF Analyzers and consumables in South East Asia. Seahorse XF Extracellular Flux Analyzers provide the first and only kinetic method to measure the two major […]

Spectris plc (“Spectris” or the “company”), the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that it has completed the acquisition of IRM Group SA (“IRM”), a leading manufacturer of high technology measuring systems for the metals industry. IRM is based near Liège, Belgium, and employs around 60 people. The net purchase consideration is €7.5 million […]

Framingham, MA – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and AB SCIEX today announced a collaboration agreement to provide GE Healthcare’s Smart Asset Management Services (SAMS) customers throughout North America with the option for full on-site service and maintenance support of AB SCIEX mass spectrometry systems. This will enable customers to […]

Raleigh, NC – Protochips, a company specializing in revolutionary products for in situ electron microscopy, today announced the domestic and international expansion of the distribution network for the Aduro™ and Poseidon™ product lines. The continued growth of the Protochips distribution network reflects increased demand as well as the corporate objective to deliver exceptional customer service. […]

Palo Alto, California – PREMIER Biosoft, a leading provider of software solutions for life science research, today announced the complete acquisition of Redasoft, a privately held company incorporated in California, USA and marketer of Visual Cloning, a popular sequence analysis software. PREMIER Biosoft expects this strategic acquisition to accelerate its growth in life science software […]