BILLERICA, Mass. -- Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Alicona Imaging GmbH, a leading provider of optical-based metrology products in Graz, Austria. For calendar year 2018, Alicona expects to be profitable with revenues of approximately $25 million. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Bruker anticipates the [...]

Amsterdam, NL: Technology innovators in super-resolution microscopy, Amsterdam-based Confocal.nl, reports on the implementation of a new turnkey confocal imaging system at The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine. The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is a multidisciplinary research institute that aims at understanding human health conditions with a special focus on neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson’s and [...]

Revenue increased by nine percent to EUR 5.8 billion Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology and Medical Technology drove growth All segments and regions contributed to positive result Research and development expenditures have paid off Revenue increased by 12 percent after currency adjustments STUTTGART/Germany The ZEISS Group is continuing its growth trajectory. In fiscal year 2017/18 (ended on [...]

Ecosystem Encourages Integration and Access to Innovative Capabilities Across the Healthcare and Life Sciences Space BOSTON Vyasa Analytics, a provider of scalable, deep-learning software and analytics for life sciences and healthcare organizations, today announced they have joined Accenture's partner ecosystem, designed to help independent software vendors (ISVs) and life science companies work more effectively to accelerate [...]

SHANGHAI -- Pall Corporation, the global leader of advanced filtration, separation and purification technologies, has established a Biotech Integrated Solutions Center of Excellence (CoE) in Shanghai, China. Strategically located in the heart of Shanghai's renowned life science cluster, the CoE is a new state-of-the-art facility for bioprocess engineering consultancy, technology demonstration, testing and training for China and broader Asia. An opening ceremony was [...]

Research in space will use Emulate’s Organs-on-Chips technology to understand changes in the intestinal response to bacterial infection BOSTON--Emulate, Inc. announced today that it has received a research grant to use the company’s Intestine-Chip to conduct experiments that will provide insights into the function of the intestinal barrier and its response to bacterial invasion in microgravity. [...]

B&W Tek, a mobile spectroscopy solutions company that delivers lab quality Raman, LIBS, UV-Vis and NIR solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, recently released the latest versions of their BWIQ®, BWSpec®and BWID® software packages. All of the updates were designed to provide more capabilities to users when collecting and analyzing data. BWIQ® 4.1.2 BWIQ® is a comprehensive multivariate analysis software package [...]

New site offers system demonstrations for customers as well as metrology services OBERKOCHEN/Germany; Lyon, Michigan/USA With the official groundbreaking, ZEISS has started the construction of a new modern site outside of Detroit. The new facility for the Industrial Quality and Research (IQR) segment of ZEISS, represented in the USA by Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC, [...]

Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (AIM: HZD), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation technologies, today announces that it has entered into an exclusive target discovery partnership with C4X Discovery Holdings plc (AIM: C4XD) ("C4XD"), a pioneering drug discovery company. The partnership aims to validate the novel synthetic lethal oncology [...]

VIENNA -- Today Lexogen launches a Version 2 (V2) upgrade for the TeloPrime Full-Length cDNA Amplification Kit; an all-in-one protocol for generating 5' cap-specific full-length cDNA from as little as 1 ng of total RNA. The new TeloPrime V2 Kits provide higher yields and enhanced representation of longer cDNAs than the initial version. Long-read sequencing technologies, [...]