Eden Prairie, Minn. –– MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, today announced that it has acquired Instrument and Calibration Sweden AB (ICS), a supplier of testing equipment and calibration services located in Sweden. MTS purchased ICS for approximately $0.7 million, representing an EBITDA multiple of […]

The combination of TaqMan® SNP Genotyping Assays and the Douglas Scientific® Array Tape™ Platform allows the generation of millions of data points per day. By leveraging industry-leading TaqMan® Assays from Life Technologies and the disruptive Array Tape™ Platform from Douglas Scientific, researchers now have access to seamless solutions designed for high-throughput genotyping applications in plant […]

TAP Biosystems, now part of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group, has reached an agreement with Lonza Bioscience to supply, exclusively, the growing market need for the RAFT 3D cell culture system as a Lonza product. In the period since its introduction, the RAFT system has been used to create a wide variety of tissue models […]

AUSTIN, Texas – 1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech (Nasdaq:ASTC), announced today that its breakthrough portable mass spectrometer technology has reached another milestone in the Military’s three-phase, multi-year Next Generation Chemical Detector (NGCD) development program. Together with Battelle, 1st Detect has officially entered the phase II test and evaluation process for its prototype Multi-Sample […]

LANSING, Mich. — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has signed an agreement to expand its relationship with Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), the global leader in sequencing and genomics. Under the agreement, Illumina will market and sell arrays with Neogen’s custom SNP content, built on Illumina Infinium® BeadArray technology, to the global agrigenomics community. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX), BioRealm, LLC, and RUCDR Infinite Biologics today announced a broad strategic alliance. This alliance will leverage BioRealm’s SmokeScreen® platform to genotype the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) biorepository of more than 50,000 samples, collected from human subjects studied in NIDA-funded research. NIDA preserves these samples in a biorepository […]

Rangatira Investments has acquired a 70% shareholding in Bio-Strategy, an established specialist distributor of laboratory instruments and automation technology products for the clinical diagnostic, life science and applied sectors. This investment will …Rangatira acquires majority stake in Bio-Strategy, aims to accelerate growth Rangatira Investments has acquired a 70% shareholding in Bio-Strategy, an established specialist distributor […]

Aubagne, France / Goettingen – Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the pharma and biotech industries, acquired Cellca GmbH based in Laupheim, Germany, last Wednesday. Founded in 2005, the company with around 30 employees generated sales revenue of approximately 6 million euros in 2014. Cellca’s major customers are biopharmaceutical companies as well […]

Madison, WI and Redwood City, CA – Stem Cell Theranostics (SCT) announced that they have successfully completed a research collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific focused on advancing the development of cardiac disease models derived from induced pluripotent stem cells using Thermo Fisher Scientific’s suite of work flow reagents and SCT’s patient biobank and proprietary disease […]

Newark, Delaware – B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is pleased to announce its involvement in a community engagement initiative offered by the collaboration between the Convention on Pharmaceutical Ingredients (CPhI) and the Global Angels Foundation. Everett Samuel, Quality Control Technician, will visit […]