MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR® announced today that it has been appointed by the University of Michigan as the exclusive provider of the award-winning I-TASSER structure prediction software to commercial entities worldwide. DNASTAR, which has had broad rights to distribute the I-TASSER software since 2012, will now be the sole authorized commercial distributor. The I-TASSER algorithms […]

HOLLISTON, Mass. — Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of equipment, instruments and solutions to advance life science, has acquired all of the operations of HEKA Elektronik, or HEKA, a privately held biomedical instrumentation and software business with headquarters in Germany, for a total of approximately $6 […]

Cambridge, UK and Vienna, Austria — Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon” or the “Company”), the international life science company supplying research tools and services to organizations engaged in genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has agreed to acquire Haplogen Genomics GmbH, a biotechnology company based in Vienna, Austria […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Arrayit Corporation (ARYC) announces that its subsidiary Avant Diagnostics, Inc., a medical technology company developing cutting edge medical diagnostic tests, has been acquired by American Liberty Petroleum Corporation (OREO). The board of directors and a majority of shareholders of American Liberty Petroleum Corporation have authorized a number of corporate actions in order […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act) in connection with the acquisition expired on December 22, 2014, thereby completing the U.S. HSR Act antitrust notification and review requirement for the acquisition of the Company by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. U.S. antitrust […]

ST. LOUIS -– Emerson announced today it has acquired Stirling, Scotland-based Cascade Technologies Ltd., a leading manufacturer of gas analyzers and monitoring systems using Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) technology. This innovative technology measures multiple gases simultaneously, helping companies improve industrial emissions monitoring, production efficiencies and environmental compliance. Emerson is expanding its analytical measurement capabilities by […]

Developed in collaboration with the University of Alberta, Canada, the Bruker HMDB Metabolite Library is a tandem mass spectrometry accurate-mass library designed to accelerate data analysis workflows in metabolomics research. It contains manually curated MS/MS spectra to speed the high-confidence identification of metabolites in human metabolomics and clinical research. Compounds contained in the library were […]

Goettingen — Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment provider, is selling its Industrial Technologies Division (Intec) to the Japanese Minebea Co., Ltd. (Minebea) and their partner, the Development Bank of Japan Inc. The respective contract was signed today. The sales price will be determined as a multiple of the Intec division’s 2014 operating […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., HINXTON, U.K. — A formal collaboration was announced today between the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) to accelerate the development of new methods for the analysis of single-cell genomics data. The Single Cell Genomics Centre (SCGC) on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus will […]