WILMINGTON, Mass. — Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB:IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, announced today it has entered into an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for its QS-B220 desktop explosives trace detectors, which recently received TSA qualification […]
MELBOURNE-based XRF will acquire the Coltide x-ray fluorescence (XRF) Drift Monitors business. Coltide is an Adelaide-based manufacturer and supplier of x-ray fluorescence drift monitors, which are used by mining companies and research organisations who wish to establish an accurate calibration for a series of elements on their x-ray spectrometers. Coltide was founded by Dr Keith […]
RADNOR, Pa. — VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, announced today it has expanded its portfolio of product offerings to the life science and biopharmaceutical industries through its acquisitions of bioprocessing single-use system integrators, Integra Companies, Inc., and STI Components, Inc. Integra Companies provides comprehensive single use connectivity […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Blackrock Microsystems LLC, the industry leader in neuroscience research equipment, today announced partnerships with two neuroscience research firms — Germany-based PhenoSys GmbH and Israel-based NAN Instruments Ltd. — that will create a truly comprehensive set of tools for neuroscience researchers that facilitate faster and more cost-effective research. Blackrock Microsystems will incorporate […]
ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and High Technology company, announced it has completed its acquisition of Rocklin, California based Cell Marque Corporation, an industry-leading provider of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) antibody reagents and kits. The Company expects this acquisition to be neutral to mildly accretive to earnings per share […]
AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into an agreement to acquire Definiens, a privately-held company that has pioneered a world-leading imaging and data analysis technology, known as Tissue Phenomics™, which dramatically improves the identification of biomarkers in tumour tissue. Definiens’ proprietary Cognition Network Technology® was developed by […]
MIAMI — Global Stem Cells Group, Inc. has been named exclusive distributor for Adistem medical solutions, and Adilyfe, a new regenerative medicine products company founded by Adistem Ltd. Scientific Founder Vasilis Paspaliaris, M.D. in Melbourne, Australia and set to launch in early 2015. Paspaliaris made the announcement at the First International Symposium on Stem Cells […]
MINNEAPOLIS — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) announced today that it has agreed to acquire CyVek, Inc. (CyVek) for $60 million in cash, plus a potential earn-out payment of up to $35 million based on CyVek revenue over the 30-month period following the closing and an additional potential earn-out payment based on CyVek revenue through 2020 […]
ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and Technology company, today announced that it has filed a definitive proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the pending acquisition of the Company by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and has set the date for a special meeting of stockholders to […]
FREMONT, Calif. — Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that it completed the divestiture of its Gas Chromatography (GC) and GC single-quadrupole (GC-SQ) mass spectrometry products to Techcomp Europe Ltd., a subsidiary of Techcomp (Holdings) Ltd, on October 31st, 2014. Techcomp intends to continue to manufacture the former Bruker GC and GC-SQ SCION™ products in […]
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