Product Developed Under License and Alliance Agreement with Geron MENLO PARK, Calif. – Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced that GE Healthcare has launched the first human cellular assay product for use in drug discovery and toxicity screening, developed under a license and alliance agreement between the two companies. This first commercially available product is […]

Berlin, Germany – ifp – Institute for Product Quality, a leading provider of biotechnology-based products and services for a broad range of life science, biotechnology, diagnostic and food safety applications and Romer Labs® , today announced the signing of a cooperation agreement for ifp’s Food Allergen rapid testing products. Under the terms of the agreement, […]

Enabling improved accuracy in drug safety through better toxicology testing Chalfont St.Giles, October 5th, 2010 – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces the availability of human cardiomyocytes, or heart muscle cells, that provide a more readily available and biologically-relevant alternative to current cell models and primary cells used in drug […]

Collaboration Aims to Improve Speed, Accuracy and Efficiency in the Microbiology Laboratory Franklin Lakes, N.J. & Billerica, Mass. – BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), and Bruker Daltonics Inc., a subsidiary of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), announced today an international co-development and co-marketing collaboration that will promote an emerging, […]

Vaisala has signed a contract to sell its oxygen measurement technology and business to SICK Maihak GmbH. The oxygen products belong to Controlled Environment business area’s offering. The divestment of oxygen business supports Controlled Environment’s strategy to focus on the selected market segments of life science and high technology, building automation and targeted industrial applications. […]

Sunrise Optical, LLC, and Neoteric Concepts, LLC, signed joint venture partnership to market, and to produce a high NA, broad-band, all-reflective, diffraction limited confocal microscope objective. Sunrise, FL – Sunrise Optical, LLC, and Neoteric Concepts, LLC, signed joint venture partnership to market, and to produce a high NA, broad-band, all-reflective, diffraction limited confocal microscope objective. […]

• Kilpest India will hold 51% stake, while the remaining 49% will be held by Biotools. • With this agreement, Biotools enters one of the most populated regions, with more than 1,600 million people (SAARC Region), with 9% growth in the last four years. Kilpest, meanwhile, has diversified its activities entering fully into a sector […]

Companies explore potential development and market opportunities for hybrid AFM/DualBeam system. Hillsboro, Ore. – FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for applications across many industries, announces that it has entered into an agreement to collaborate with Nanonics Imaging Ltd., based in Israel, to explore the feasibility of adding an […]

Gilden Photonics, a world leader in the development and manufacture of hyperspectral imaging technology, is to help design a system to measure and protect the quality and reputation of Scottish meat. Gilden Photonics, a world leader in the development and manufacture of hyperspectral imaging technology, is to help design a system to measure and protect […]

Oxford, UK – The buyout was initiated by Richard Glazer and Alex Renshaw of the company’s incumbent management team and was supported by both private equity and venture capital group, Catapult Capital. The company plans to use the opportunity to enhance its position as a market leader in the field of low temperature devices and […]