BILLERICA, MA, (February 8, 2011) – Aushon BioSystems, Inc., a leading provider of multiplex immunoassay products and services announced that it has signed a letter of intent to enter into a diagnostic development collaboration with Peking University Cancer Hospital (“PUCH”), Beijing, China. The primary goal for the collaboration is to develop predictive diagnostic markers for […]

CHICAGO – Baird Venture Partners (BVP), the U.S.-based venture capital fund of Baird Private Equity, announced today that its portfolio company Accuri Cytometers (Accuri) has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. – SwitchGear Genomics Inc., a leading provider of products for studying the regulatory elements in the human genome, today announced that the company signed an agreement for BioCat GmbH to distribute the innovative LightSwitch Luciferase Assay System(TM) in Europe. The system consists of a full reporter assay solution including a genome-wide collection […]

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. – Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing, and Danaher, a diversified technology leader that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative products and services to professional, medical, industrial, and commercial customers, announced today that they have entered into a […]

Sensortec Ltd has sold Cawood Ltd, its successful agricultural contract testing business, in a management buyout. Sensortec has developed Cawood over the last 8 years through the merger of several small testing laboratories, and has achieved consistent year-on-year sales growth. The proceeds from this transaction will be invested in the company’s biosensor business, Universal Sensors, […]

Pompey, France and Ludwigshafen, Germany – Novasep, a leading supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life science industries, and instrAction, a manufacturer of innovative chromatographic stationary phases for API purification processes, today announce they have expanded their worldwide strategic alliance to include the purification of taxanes, a well-known class of anti-cancer compounds. This extended collaboration […]

ST. LOUIS – Partek Incorporated, a global leader in bioinformatics software, announced today the signing of a distribution agreement with Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of next-generation DNA sequencing technology. The agreement makes Partek Genomics Suite available through Life Technologies as a featured solution for analyzing data generated by Life Technologies’ next-generation sequencing […]

Franklin Lakes, NJ – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Accuri Cytometers, Inc., an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company that develops and manufactures personal flow cytometers for researchers. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to […]

Washington, D.C. – Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC) pursuant to which Danaher will acquire Beckman Coulter by making a cash tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Beckman Coulter at a purchase price of […]

MeasureNet Technology, a leader in data collection systems for academic laboratories and Zyomic Technologies, a company that provides a managed sales organization and provides marketing expertise are pleased to announce an agreement where Zyomic Technologies will provide sales coverage for MeasureNet in defined areas of the United States. ‘We are thrilled to have this new […]