REDWOOD CITY, CA. —— XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, has appointed EM Resolutions Limited as their exclusive distributor for their decontamination products in the UK & Ireland. XEI Scientific has appointed a new distributor for the UK and Irish markets. Founded […]

Merck announced that approvals have been secured from all relevant jurisdictions for its planned acquisition of U.S.-based life science company Sigma-Aldrich. Unconditional approval from Brazil’s Council for Economic Defense (CADE), which was the final outstanding country, was received. This clearance becomes effective after a common waiting period of 15 days. It follows recently received antitrust […]

CAMBRIDGE, UK and OCEANSIDE, CA – Optibrium™ and Integrated Chemistry Design, providers of software solutions and services for drug discovery, today announced the release of Asteris 1.1, an updated version of the iPad app that delivers highly intuitive chemistry drawing tools with the most visually informative predictive modelling. The latest version of Asteris combines enhanced […]

EMERYVILLE and LOS ALTOS, Calif. — Amyris, Inc. (AMRS), the industrial bioscience company, and Genome Compiler Corp., a synthetic biology platform company, today announced the availability of an open testing program for pharma and biotech companies to explore DNA design and construction solutions. The two companies announced a collaboration agreement in March 2015 to integrate […]

Rochester, NY — Diffinity Genomics, a Henrietta-based biotech company backed by venture capital fund Excell Partners and High Tech Rochester incubator, has been acquired by global life science company Chiral Technologies, Inc. Both Excell Partners and High Tech Rochester are affiliates of the University of Rochester where the technology originated. Diffinity has developed DNA purification […]

Jena, Germany — Endress+Hauser’s voluntary tender to the shareholders of Analytik Jena AG has been extended to 9 September 2015. The Group, which holds more than 95 percent of the German company, will continue to offer 14 euros a share The voluntary tender from Endress+Hauser was first initiated in July of this year. Following the […]

BILLERICA, Mass.– Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that it has appointed Dr. Hermann Requardt to its Board of Directors effective immediately. Dr. Requardt will serve for an initial term expiring at the Company’s 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Dr. Requardt currently serves as an independent strategic advisor to a number of European public and […]

BOUND BROOK, N.J. — A New Jersey company that specializes in monitoring and maintaining the accuracy of laboratory equipment has expanded its role even further by adding a well known innovator, General Electric, as a provider among its array of high-tech equipment and services. Baseline Service, LLC, headquartered in Bound Brook, NJ, recently announced that […]

JENA/Germany, UNTERSCHLEIßHEIM/Germany — New microscopy technologies, such as light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) or clearing methods, allow the imaging of large samples at high resolution or high frame rates. Handling, processing, and analyzing these multi-terabyte data sets has become increasingly difficult for scientists, e.g. in developmental biology and neuroscience. New tools are needed to overcome […]

BRISBANE, Calif. and MOUNTAIN VIEW Calif.– CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq:CDNA), a molecular diagnostics company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of actionable diagnostic surveillance solutions for organ transplant recipients, and DNAnexus Inc., the leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, today announced that CareDx has selected DNAnexus’ cloud genomics platform to support its ongoing […]