IRVINE, Calif. – Newport Corporation (NASDAQ: NEWP) today reported it has entered into an agreement to acquire High Q Technologies GmbH (“High Q”), a leading developer and manufacturer of ultrafast lasers under its High Q Laser® brand. Terms of the transaction, which is anticipated to close before the end of the third quarter, were not […]
Uppsala, Sweden and Chalfont St Giles, UK – Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that GE Healthcare Life Sciences has become the sole distributor for the company’s nanoliter-scale immunoassay platform in Japan. The Gyros platform (www.gyros.com) is increasingly used by major biopharmaceutical companies and their […]
Madison, WI, USA – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and Caliper Life Sciences , Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) today announced a co-marketing agreement for the development and optimization of automated protocols for the NimbleGen SeqCap EZ Library solution-based capture method for Caliper’s Sciclone NGS Workstation. The collaboration aims to simplify high throughput targeted resequencing workflows […]
Boston, MA – The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT has selected HighRes Biosolutions to implement modular and flexible automation for its newly implemented screening facility. HighRes will provide The Koch Institute, which is revolutionizing the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of cancer, with two screening systems that will be linked using […]
SAN DIEGO – Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced it has signed a three-year supply agreement with Illumina, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of life sciences tools for the large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function. Under the terms of the agreement, Sequenom and its […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., and YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO – ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) and privately held YSI Incorporated today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for ITT to acquire, via merger, YSI, a leading developer and manufacturer of sensors, instruments, software, and data collection platforms for environmental water monitoring.The financial terms of the […]
Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, announces the acquisition of Avo Photonics, Inc (‘Avo’) on 8 July 2011 from Blaine Hobson, Whitecap Partners, other shareholders and employees for an initial cash consideration of $9.0 million (£5.6 million). Avo, based in Pennsylvania, USA, designs and manufactures advanced, miniaturised photonic components and subsystems for […]
HOUSTON – LaserGen Inc. and National Instruments today announced a collaboration to develop a new next-generation sequencing (NGS) system. The system will be initially used to demonstrate accurate sequencing of the E. coli genome in the upcoming months using LaserGen’s Lightning Terminators™, a breakthrough sequencing chemistry for reversible terminators, and National Instruments graphical system design […]
Neihu, Taiwan – Abnova Corporation and Biotek announced today the collaboration and introduction of a high throughput, protein-protein interaction (PPI) assay system (Interactor®) based on time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (TR-FRET). While conventional applications of TR-FRET focus primarily on GPCR second messengers and kinases, the emerging field of PPIs as druggable targets for high throughput […]
Venlo, the Netherlands, and Melbourne, Australia – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has amended its original proposal to acquire Cellestis Limited (CST:AU), a publicly traded Australian biotechnology company. Under terms of the amended proposal, the per-share offer price is being increased by 7% to A$3.80 from the original […]
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