Techcomp (Holdings) Ltd. (“Techcomp”) is delighted to announce the acquisition of the ex-Varian GC and GC-MS SQ assets from Bruker Corporation (“Bruker”) and the establishment of a new business – Scion Instruments – registered in Fremont California. The GC and GC-MS SQ systems and Compass CDS software will be supplied and managed by the existing […]

Minneapolis, MN — ImmunoChemistry Technologies (ICT), a Twin Cities-based company developing life science tools, has sold its proprietary and patented FLIVO® technology to a private equity firm that focuses on early stage development companies with promising technologies. FLIVO is a powerful tool for quickly detecting apoptosis or programmed cell death in living laboratory animals. Within […]

WALTHAM, Mass. — PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the acquisition of Ceiba Solutions, Inc., a sciences and laboratory IT software and services company offering managed IT services and emerging software platforms. PerkinElmer will integrate Ceiba’s capabilities into its OneSource® services, which […]

Natick, MA, and Cleburne, TX — AmericanBio, Inc. and Boval BioSolutions announced the formation of a joint venture involving the continuous development and marketing of Bovine Serum Albumin RNase / DNase Free products. These two powerful life science brands have partnered, and with this alliance it should allow them to exclusively bring to market products […]

Buffalo Grove, Ill. –– Leica Biosystems, a global leader in anatomic pathology laboratory solutions and instruments, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Devicor Medical Products, Inc. Devicor is a global market leader in breast biopsy instruments and consumables, with annual revenues of approximately $170 million. Devicor, headquartered in Cincinnati, […]

Berlin (Germany)-– PicoQuant and Nikon present a new level of software cooperation in their FLIM & FCS Upgrade Kit for Nikon A1 and C2 laser scanning microscopes (LSM). A specially developed interface between PicoQuant’s SymPhoTime 64 and Nikon’s NIS-Elements allows direct time-resolved data acquisition out of the Nikon software. The expanded software interface significantly improves […]

Mountain View, CA — — Clontech Laboratories, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., today announced that they have entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with the Broad Institute to access intellectual property related to the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system. “Clontech is pleased to be able to provide innovative tools for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing […]

Billerica, MA -– Seahorse Bioscience and the Moffitt Cancer Center have announced that they have received an SBIR contract through the National Cancer Institute, to develop a reproducible method that will enable the measurement of metabolism of 3D microtissue, and can be used for high-throughput metabolic and pre-clinical toxicity screens. Cancer cells switch their metabolic […]

LE PERRAY-EN-YVELINES, France — tebu-bio (Le Perray, France) has signed an agreement with Spirochrome to bring European researchers access to Spirochrome’s live cell imaging tools through their network of local offices in 9 countries. Spirochrome (Stein am Rhein, Switzerland) has developed higly innovative tools to stain F-actin and microtubules in living cells. Dr. Ali El […]

Albuquerque, NM — IntelliCyt Corporation, a leading provider of innovative, high-throughput, high-content cell- and bead-based screening solutions today announced the completion of the first Technology Access Program (TAP) with the first TAP awardee and partners, Dr. David Sykes and Dr. David Scadden from the Massachusetts General Hospital. The IntelliCyt TAP Program is a collaborative outreach […]