Andor (AND.L), the leading developer and manufacturer of high performance digital cameras for academic, industrial and government applications globally, is pleased to announce that on 14 April 2010 it acquired the trade and assets of Photonic for consideration comprising US$ 5.0 million (GBP £3.25 million) in cash and the issue of 156,627 ordinary shares of […]

Acquisition brings new diagnostic services to global leader in pre-natal and newborn health screening WALTHAM, Mass.–PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC (Signature), a diagnostic genetic testing company […]

CARLISLE, Mass. — VigeneTech Inc. has released an OEM image analysis solution to support Life Technologies Corporation’s Prodigy(TM), an automated, research-use array platform. Life Technologies is a global biotechnology tools company providing premier systems, consumables, and services for scientific researchers around the world. It sources VigeneTech, developers of novel image analysis, automation and instrumentation software, […]

SAN DIEGO — TriLink BioTechnologies (TriLink), has entered into an agreement with Cedarlane Corporation, a Canadian based research biotechnology company, for the sale and distribution of its modified nucleoside triphosphates, custom chemistry and oligonucleotide products. TriLink CEO, Richard Hogrefe, Ph.D. commented, “We are pleased to partner with Cedarlane to enhance the distribution of TriLink’s products […]

Malvern, UK: Malvern Instruments Limited (Malvern, UK) has acquired certain assets of Swedish rheology company Reologica Instruments AB (Lund, Sweden), which went into administration on 23rd March 2010. Financial terms have not been disclosed. Paul Walker, Managing Director of Malvern Instruments, said: “This purchase gives Malvern access to additional technologies and intellectual property that will […]

Life Technologies acquires 58 % of GENEART shares via it´s German subsidiary Applied Biosystems Deutschland GmbH Public tender offer for the remaining shares planned Cooperation Agreement concluded with Life Technologies Regensburg — The founders of GENEART AG Prof. Dr. Ralf Wagner, Prof. Dr. Hans Wolf, Dr. Marcus Graf, and individual members of the management as […]

Proteome Sciences plc (“Proteome Sciences”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (“Sigma”) under which Sigma will be able to continue selling products under Proteome’s registered trademark ProteoPrep® in Europe, Japan and Australia. Sigma is the world’s largest supplier of research biochemicals and organic chemicals with […]

UNDT’s Expansion Into Chemical Weapons Detection Provides Governmental and Security Industry With Most Advanced Suite of Chemical, Biological and Radioactive Equipment LOS ANGELES, CA– Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies and counter-terrorism training programs to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting […]

New Distribution Agreement With Boehringer Ingelheim Offers Sigma-Aldrich Customers Expanded Biodegradable Polylactide Polymers for Biomaterials Research – RESOMER(R) Biodegradable Polymer Line can Support all Phases of the Drug Discovery and Development Pipeline ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich® (NASDAQ:SIAL) announced today it has entered into a distribution agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, […]