SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has acquired BIOCIUS Life Sciences, Inc., developer of the unique RapidFire(tm) high-throughput mass spectrometry drug-screening platform for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical markets. Financial details were not disclosed. BIOCIUS’ RapidFire drug-screening technology has successfully screened millions of compounds, providing results 10 to 100 times […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire certain assets of the polystyrene roller bottle product line from BD, a global technology company that develops, manufactures and sells medical devices, instruments and reagents. The acquisition demonstrates Thermo Fisher Scientific’s commitment […]
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – Avantor™ Performance Materials Holdings S.A. has completed its acquisition of RFCL Limited from ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited. Avantor, previously known as Mallinckrodt Baker, and its subsidiaries manufacture and market high-performance chemistries and materials around the world under two well-known and respected brand names, J.T.Baker® and Macron™ Chemicals (formerly Mallinckrodt® Chemicals). […]
LAKE FOREST, Ill. – IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) today announced the successful completion of the tender offer by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nano Merger Sub, Inc., for all outstanding shares of common stock of Microfluidics International Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: MFLU) at a price of $1.35 per share, net to the seller in cash, without interest […]
MILPITAS, Calif. – Sage-N Research Inc. (Sage-N), the world leader in computational proteomics, today announced a co-marketing agreement with Nonlinear Dynamics who are renowned developers of proteomics software. The collaboration will see Sage-N Research co-market Nonlinear Dynamics’ Progenesis LC-MS label-free quantification software alongside its SORCERER proteomics platform. The scientific capabilities of both companies are a […]
WALTHAM, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has signed definitive agreements to sell its Athena Diagnostics and Lancaster Laboratories businesses for a total of $940 million in cash. The company reached an agreement to sell Athena Diagnostics to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated for $740 […]
BILLERICA, Mass. – Bruker today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Michrom Bioresources, Inc. (‘Michrom’), a 20 year old, privately owned company based in Auburn, California. Michrom provides liquid chromatography (LC) instrumentation, accessories, and consumables for applications in the life science, chemical and applied markets. In particular, Michrom recently has launched the […]
Avacta Group plc (“Avacta” or the “Company”), which provides innovative, high value proprietary technologies and services to the pharmaceutical and diagnostics markets, announces that it has signed a commercial agreement with Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL)(“Pall”). As part of the agreement, Avacta and Pall will collaborate to develop and market products and advanced analytical services for the […]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., & AIRPORT CITY, Israel – Fluidigm Corporation, the inventor of integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), has appointed Eisenberg Brothers Ltd. as its distributor in Israel. Eisenberg Brothers will offer Fluidigm’s complete portfolio of BioMark™, EP1™, and Access Array™ Systems and the complete line up of Dynamic Array™, Digital Array™ and Access Array […]
HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) and Covaris Inc., Woburn, Mass., today announced a co-marketing agreement which will leverage Covaris’ acoustic DNA shearing platforms and Caliper’s automation and microfluidics technologies to develop automated workflows for next generation sequencing experiments. Caliper has developed a complete suite of solutions for library construction, sample analysis, […]
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