Late last week, PerkinElmer announced that Robert F. Friel, president of the company’s Life and Analytical Sciences division (LAS), would transition to president and COO on August 1, before being named CEO next February. Gregory L. Summe, chairman, president and CEO, who has been with the company 10 years as of next January, will assume […]
IO Informatics appointed Robert Stanley, cofounder and CTO, president and CEO in April. VelQuest integrated its GMP Electronic Notebook System, designed for QA/QC applications, with Symyx Technologies’ electronic lab notebook applications, which are designed for R&D. Thermo Fisher Scientific granted Sage-N Research a sublicense to sell the SEQUEST search engine products. Agilent integrated EMC’s NetWorker […]
Graz, Austria 6/29/07—Anton Paar GmbH has acquired German company Dr. Wolfgang Kerchen GmbH, a maker of refractometers and polarimeters, effective July 1. Dr. Wolfgang Kerchen’s primary market is the sugar industry and it has served as the exclusive supplier of high-precision refractometers to Anton Paar.
In April, Veeco Instruments appointed Jeannine M. Sargent, executive vice president of Metrology and Instrumentation, Corporate Marketing and Business Development, as executive vice president, Business Development. Under a collaboration agreement, Veeco and Leica Microsystems GmbH will integrate their respective BioScope II atomic force microscope (AFM) and DMI series inverted microscope for cell biology applications. Veeco […]
Rochester, NY 7/9/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired the assets of the OptiCell product line, consumable products for cell culture growth, from BioCrystal for an undisclosed amount. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Nalge Nunc International subsidiary has exclusively distributed the product since last year. “This acquisition helps us leverage and further develop OptiCell as a next generation cell […]
Advanced Instruments and RAM Mechanical launched the CombiScope AutoLab, an automated dairy lab sample handling and analysis system. CyBio AG and Jena Bioscience introduced the CyBi-CrystalCreator for automating the entire protein crystallization process. HTG introduced the FireFly Imaging System, a chemiluminescent imager. Velocity11 introduced the R-Series BenchCel Microplate Handling System. Tecan released Freedom EVOware 2.0. […]
Hitachi High-Technologies Japan launched the HF-3300 field emission transmission electron microscope. Shipments will start in September with expected annual sales of five units. Park Systems, formerly PSIA, introduced the XE-70 AFM/scanning probe microscope. FEI introduced RAPID (Remote Access Program for Interactive Diagnostics) in North America.
The European Union’s regulations for a wide variety of industries are having an influence far beyond the confines of Europe. In fact, the EU is steadily replacing the US as the primary source for regulatory guidance. Frequently, countries will imitate the EU’s policies outright. In addition, the EU is beginning to influence decisions by international […]
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization announced that the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has adopted 44 new and amended food codes and standards, and established a set of risk-analysis principles to assist governments in making their own standards and codes. Among the new and revised standards and codes are a code […]
Single-cell whole genome amplification (WGA) PCR is an application of PCR technology that amplifies the nucleic acid in a single cell rather than in a tissue sample or a pool of homogenous cells. While single-cell amplification has been recognized almost as long as PCR technology itself, it was not considered a very efficient technique due […]
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