ARLINGTON, Va. – ICx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq GM: ICXT), a developer of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with FLIR Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLIR) pursuant to which ICx would be acquired through a cash tender offer, followed by a merger with a subsidiary […]
Acquisition to add sampling, testing, and analysis consumables to its life sciences product portfolio CORNING, N.Y. – Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced today that it has reached an agreement with the shareholders of Plaslab S.A.S. to acquire all outstanding shares of the company. Assuming certain closing conditions are met, the acquisition is expected to be completed […]
NOVATO, CA – Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Biosearch), a leading supplier of sophisticated oligonucleotide components to the rapidly growing molecular diagnostics industry, today announced that it has entered into a new license relationship with QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QIA, Frankfurt Prime Standard) providing broad commercialisation rights to Scorpions Primers. Scorpions primer assays are leading molecular diagnostic reagents for […]
Rockville, MD – OriGene Technologies, Inc., a gene-centric life sciences company, announces the acquisition of Blue Heron Biotechnology, a pioneer in the gene synthesis business since 1999. Blue Heron is one of the oldest and most successful gene synthesis companies in the world, providing customers solutions for complex DNA synthesis. It supplies synthetic DNA to […]
Dow Corning Will Use Freeslate Solutions to Transform Its Approach to R&D SUNNYVALE, Calif. & MIDLAND, Mich – Freeslate, Inc., a leading provider of high-throughput solutions that enable step-change gains in R&D productivity and innovation, today announced Dow Corning has selected the company as its strategic supplier in integrated workflow solutions for high-throughput experimentation. “High-throughput […]
Expand the Range of Powerful Building Blocks for Small Molecule Synthesis Urbana, IL – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sigma-Aldrich® have entered into a licensing agreement which enables Sigma-Aldrich to expand the range of a powerful class of boronic acid surrogates offered to the global chemistry community. Boronic acids are building blocks for Suzuki-Miyaura […]
St. Louis, MO. – Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL), and SwitchGear Genomics, Inc. today announced a joint project to develop and distribute a novel microRNA (miRNA) target reporter system. Combining SwitchGear Genomics’ expertise with Sigma’s versatile lentiviral technology, these ready-to-use reporter vectors are expected to simplify […]
Sartorius and TEWS Elektronik sign an exclusive sales and marketing agreement Systems for moisture and density determination based on microwave resonance technology Goettingen | Hamburg, Germany, – Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and process technology provider, has signed an agreement on exclusive sales as well as on marketing and servicing of microwave resonance analyzers for […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, England – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the SureSelect Human All Exon 50 Mb Target Enrichment kit for next-generation DNA sequencing. The kit enables researchers to streamline experiments by sequencing the expressed genome while discarding regions that are not of interest. The new kit was developed in collaboration […]
License offers Ion Torrent access to DNA Electronics’ intellectual property LONDON – DNA Electronics Ltd., an innovator of semiconductor solutions for healthcare, announced today that it has signed a non-exclusive, worldwide license agreement to provide Ion Torrent, the semiconductor sequencing company, access to DNA Electronics’ intellectual property. No further details about the agreement were disclosed. […]
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