Uzwil — The Buhler Technology Group has acquired 100% of the Chinese company Bangsheng Bio-Technology Co. Ltd. Bangsheng, the Chinese market leader in the field of flour improvement solutions for specialty flours, is opening up additional opportunities for Buhler in a market segment that is extremely promising for the future. Bangsheng Bio-Technology Co. Ltd., set […]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Chiral Technologies, Inc. (CTI), the world’s leading supplier of chirality tools, is partnering with Vanderbilt University’s Program in Drug Discovery (VPDD) to supply enantioselective chiral chromatography columns and custom separation services. VPDD is a premier university-run drug discovery program. It employs more than 60 scientists working with major pharmaceutical companies, government […]

NuGEN Strengthens Its Global Distribution Adding a Strong Partner in Asia Pacific SAN CARLOS, Calif.–NuGEN, the provider of innovative RNA and DNA sample preparation technologies that enable breakthrough genomic analysis, today announced it has signed a non-exclusive agreement with Takara Bio to distribute the full spectrum of NuGEN’s next-generation sequencing, microarray and q-PCR nucleic acid […]

Olympus Continues to Grow and Strengthen Sales and Service Capability CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — Olympus America Inc. continues to build its industrial instrument distribution network, naming Hitschfel Instruments, Inc., to handle distribution of Olympus industrial microscope products in central and southern Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and greater Memphis. The largest and most advanced […]

PARIS and BASEL, Switzerland — — Cellectis bioresearch, the French genome customization specialist and a commercial subsidiary of Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), and Lonza, a world leader in biotechnology production, announce today that the companies have entered into an agreement for the development and commercialization of a bioengineered cell line. Cellectis bioresearch will use its meganucleases […]

Gentec Electro-Optics Announces Acquisition of Laser and Terahertz Instrumentation and Detection Manufacturer Spectrum Detector Quebec City, CANADA — Gentec Electro-Optics, Inc., the oldest player in the laser beam measurement market, has announced today the acquisition of the Oregon based laser and terahertz measurement manufacturer Spectrum Detector, Inc. The acquisition expands Gentec Electro-Optics’ product offering in […]

Transaction Expected to Close in Early Q3 2010 BILLERICA, Mass.–Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL), a leading provider of technologies, tools and services for the global life science industry, today announced that its shareholders voted at a Special Meeting of Shareholders to approve the previously-announced acquisition of all outstanding shares of common stock of Millipore by Merck KGaA […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.–Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, announced today that it has made an equity investment in Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), a privately held company founded to commercialize synthetic genomic advances. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. “Given the breadth of business areas that Life Technologies covers and […]

Quertle, LLC and Ariadne announce a technology partnership to support new applications in biomedical text and knowledge search. Ariadne will provide both proprietary technology and technical resources to Quertle. In addition, Ariadne will package Quertle’s semantic search engine as an appliance solution for the pharmaceutical and agricultural industry. Boulder, CO and Rockville, MD (PRWEB) — […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. & HEIDELBERG, Germany–Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) and the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum or DKFZ) today announced their collaboration to create the National High-Throughput Sequencing Center. This exclusive partnership will create the largest sequencing facility in Germany and the first national sequencing center in Europe dedicated to systems biology. “Our aim […]