Company Announcements FEI and the Foundation for Fundamental Research of Matter announced a five-year, €2.7 million ($3.9 million) joint nanotechnology research project to develop electron microscopes and focused ion beam (FIB) systems for single-atom imaging and processing of material structures. FEI opened its fourth NanoPort center of technical and applications excellence in Shanghai, China, in […]

Woburn, MA 4/1/08—BioTrove, a supplier of microfluidic-based laboratory instruments for genomic analysis, has filed with the SEC for an IPO of its common stock on the NASDAQ exchange. Pricing and timing details are yet to be determined. The company sells the Open Array system for multiplex PCR analysis in research and diagnostic applications, and the […]

Palo Alto, CA 4/7/08; Abingdon, UK 4/7/08—Varian has acquired Oxford Instruments’ spin out Oxford Diffraction for $37 million in cash and assumed net debt. Oxford Diffraction, of which Oxford Instruments held a 23% stake, develops and manufactures x-ray crystallography instrumentation for pharmaceutical research. The company posted revenues of $15 million for the year ended March […]