PORTLAND, Ore. -- Northwest Analytics’ board of directors announced that Peter Guilfoyle has been appointed chief executive officer, president and director. Robert Ward, former CEO, will assume an advisory role. These changes were effective November 12, 2019. Guilfoyle was the Vice President of Marketing for Northwest Analytics. In that role, Guilfoyle drove the company to [...]

Collaboration between drug companies and contract research partners drives innovation in evolving business environment. Columbus, Ohio – CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, announced today that leading contract research, development and manufacturing organization (CRO/CDMO) BioDuro has signed a five-year agreement for SciFindern. This agreement provides enterprise-wide access to the most advanced scientific information solution [...]

Major Uruguay biotech distributor sees global potential for their country's cannabis crop BEVERLY, Mass. -- Medicinal Genomics Corp. (MGC), a pioneer in genomics and blockchain technology to improve the yield, safety and transparency of cannabis, today announced its partnership with Tagaca SRL as its distributor of record in Uruguay. Tagaca is the leading biotechnology distribution firm in Uruguay [...]

QIAGEN receives several conditional, non-binding indications of interest, and decides to enter into discussions to explore potential strategic alternatives Venlo, The Netherlands – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) (“QIAGEN” or the “Company”) announces it has begun a review of potential strategic alternatives after receiving several conditional, non-binding indications of interest for the acquisition of [...]

Venlo, The Netherlands – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) (“QIAGEN” or the “Company”) announces it has begun a review of potential strategic alternatives after receiving several conditional, non-binding indications of interest for the acquisition of all issued and outstanding shares of the Company. The Supervisory Board and the Management Board of QIAGEN, in [...]

Bio-Rad recently made the following announcement Edinburgh Instruments Ltd Joins Bio-Rad’s KnowItAll Raman Spectral Identification Partner Program As a Partner, Edinburgh Instruments Ltd Will Offer Its Customers Access to the Raman Identification Software and Largest Raman Spectral Database from Bio-Rad HERCULES, Calif.–November 11, 2019–Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life [...]

“Since 2016, the laboratory of Arauco Pulp and Paper has invested in new pieces of high-tech equipment that will allow us to measure COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) more accurately and rapidly.” “The variation in the COD speed, from 120 minutes to 8 minutes, is due to the acquisition of a “MANTECH PeCOD”. A modern equipment [...]

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — RTI International, a leading research institute, today announced a follow-on investment in PierianDx to help empower leading health institutions and diagnostic laboratories to build world-class precision medicine programs. The transaction includes RTI’s participation in a $27 million Series B funding round, which includes new investors ATW Partners and SJF Ventures along with [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- SUNY Upstate Medical University and Leica Microsystems, Inc. have combined efforts to establish the Leica Microsystems Center of Excellence at SUNY Upstate. The new Center will support a mission to drive new discoveries and insights from scientific research performed using state-of-the-art imaging systems. A signing ceremony will take place Thursday afternoon, November 14, 2019, at Weiskotten [...]

TOKYO - Evolution of Integrated EPMA - JEOL Ltd. (6951.T) (President & COO Izumi Oi) announces the release of a new Schottky field emission Electron Probe Microanalyzer JXA-iHP200F and a new tungsten/LaB6 Electron Probe Microanalyzer JXA-iSP100, to be released in November 2019. Product Development Background Electron Probe Microanalyzers (EPMAs) are used as tools for research & [...]