LANSING, Mich. — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has acquired the complete rodenticide assets of Virbac Corporation, the North American affiliate of the France-based Virbac Group, a global animal health company. The acquired assets include a key rodenticide active ingredient that complements Neogen’s existing active ingredients, and more than 40 regulatory approvals […]

ROANOKE, VA – Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA) announced that Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) has agreed to buy out the remainder of the purchase consideration for its medical shape-sensing technology for $9 million. Intuitive Surgical acquired Luna’s fiber optic shape-sensing and localization technology, including related patents in January, 2014. The terms of the original […]

Tokyo, Japan – Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary, Yokogawa Europe B.V. has acquired 100% of the shares of its distributor in Turkey, Birle?ik Endüstriyel Sistemler Ve Tesisler A.?(BEST), which is based in Izmir. The acquisition of shares was carried out on November 25. With this acquisition, Yokogawa strengthens its focus on Turkey as […]

South Plainfield, NJ –– Leading global genomics service provider, GENEWIZ, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the genomic services business of Beckman Coulter, which delivers expert genomics sequencing solutions to healthcare businesses, as well as academic and government institutions worldwide (GS). “The genomic services business of Beckman Coulter is an ideal fit with GENEWIZ’s […]

PerkinElmer, Inc. and EpiCypher are collaborating to offer AlphaLISA® assay kits which measure the binding of the BRD4 and P300 bromodomains to various acetylated histone H2A, H3, or H4 peptides. These kits are designed to help biopharmaceutical and academic researchers perform small molecule drug discovery analysis on epigenetic reader proteins. Bromodomain and Extra-Terminal motif (BET) […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Emulate Inc. today announced an expanded research collaboration with Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, to deploy Emulate’s Organ-Chips across certain Merck discovery programs to improve models of human inflammatory diseases and better predict the potential human response of therapeutic candidates. The research will focus on using Emulate’s […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. and BOCA RATON, Fla. — The Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research (the Institute) announced today that it has finalized a funding agreement with RAPiD Genomics a Gainesville-based company with technology licensed from the University of Florida. The Institute supports new company creation based on publicly-funded research, and bridges early funding […]

Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany – SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced that it has signed three additional non-exclusive distribution agreements with PhileKorea, Pharma Tech Korea and Axil Scientific for the commercialization of SYGNIS’ proprietary product portfolio in Korea and Singapore and thereby significantly expands its Asian footprint. With these agreements, […]

Leading Australian pharmacy chain Chemist Warehouse and international science group LGC have agreed a partnership to develop consumer education and greater industry awareness for the globally-recognised banned substance testing programme Informed-Sport. Brands INC Sports Nutrition, Pure Warrior Powered by Swisse, join Etixx having recently certified entire ranges on to Informed-Sport, and all are now available […]

With the acquisition of ATM the VERDER group extends the portfolio of its Scientific Division in the business segment of sample preparation of solids. The company is a leading manufacturer of machines for metallographic applications. The instruments are used both in industrial processes and research to prepare solid bodies of metal or compound materials, usually […]