Middleton, Wis. – Lucigen Corp announced today that it has successfully completed Illumina CSPro™ certification for next generation sequencing (NGS), gaining entry to an elite group of Illumina genomics service providers globally. Illumina Inc., a San Diego-based company, provides leading-edge genetic analysis tools to genomics centers worldwide. Illumina CSPro is the collaborative service provider partnership […]

Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies, announces that on 30th September 2015 it completed the sale of its Alfa Aesar Research Chemicals business to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. for £256 million in cash. This completes the transaction which was firstannounced on 25th June 2015. Commenting on the transaction, Robert MacLeod, Chief Executive of […]

XIAMEN, China & SAN DIEGO — Amoy Diagnostics Co. Ltd. (ADx) and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of precision medicine and targeted therapies in China. Under the collaboration, Amoy will develop and commercialize a series of oncology-related tests based on Illumina’s next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, including the […]

OMAHA, Neb. — Transgenomic, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBIO)announced that it has entered into a definitive and binding term sheet to divest its Genetic Assays & Platforms (GAP) Business Unit to ADSTEC Corporation, a privately held Japanese company that manufactures and sells specialized instruments and reagents for the biotechnology industry. Pursuant to the term sheet, Transgenomic agreed […]

WALTHAM, Mass.– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Alfa Aesar, a leading global manufacturer of research chemicals, from Johnson Matthey Plc, for £256 million (or approximately $400 million) in cash. “With the close of the transaction, we now have the opportunity to […]

The Lab-at-Rig® technology that CSIRO has developed in partnership with Imdex and Olympus, under the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC), enables chemistry and mineralogy of rocks found within a drill hole to be analysed within minutes of drilling. “Lab-at-Rig® is an important breakthrough for the industry because of the potentially massive cost […]

Oslo, Norway & Minneapolis – CAMO Software, leaders in multivariate data analysis software, and Stat-Ease, Inc., a leading supplier of design of experiments (DOE) software and services, have released a software bundle for multivariate data analysis and design of experiments; The Unscrambler® X Design-Expert® Upgrade. The upgrade combines CAMO’s leading software for multivariate data analysis, […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today it is making progress toward closing the planned acquisition of the Company by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The closing is now expected within the next two months. On August 11, 2015, Sigma-Aldrich and Merck announced they had obtained all necessary antitrust approvals, with the approval of […]