SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that health officials from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom recently issued a recommendation that includes the use of the Prosigna® Breast Cancer Gene Signature Assay result to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions for [...]

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and SARASOTA, Fla. – Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) (“Teledyne”) and Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ROP) (“Roper”) jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire the Scientific Imaging businesses of Roper for $225 million in cash. The Scientific Imaging businesses include Princeton Instruments, Photometrics and Lumenera, [...]

Existing investors contribute an additional $30 million to accelerate tools that will revolutionize genomic research BOULDER, Colo. -- Inscripta™, a leading gene-editing technology company, today announced that MAD7, its proprietary CRISPR enzyme, has achieved wide adoption by academic, commercial, and government researchers in its first year of availability. MAD7 was recently recognized by the Scientistmagazine as one of [...]

Autoscribe Informatics has appointed Labcom Technology as distributor in Bangladesh for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) products. Labcom Technology is a leading consultant and supplier to the laboratory scientific instrument industries and ICT industries in Bangladesh, with a strong customer base in both industrial and educational sectors. Bob Blunden, Director Australasia [...]

  SHEFFIELD, UK - AMETEK Land, leading manufacturer of monitors and analysers for combustion efficiency and environmental pollutant emissions monitoring, has appointed Focal-Point Technology, stack emission and process gas analysis specialist, as a UK distributor for its combustion and emissions monitors and as a global partner for its FGA 900 compact flue gas analysers (FGAs). [...]

A new extensive firmware update (version 2.0) for all PTWS x20 tablet dissolution testing instruments which includes the PTWS 120D, PTWS 120S, PTWS 820D, PTWS 620, PTWS 1220 and the PTWS D620 is now available. All new instruments will be delivered with this firmware version 2.0 from now on. The update is also available free [...]

Stockholm – Biotage AB (publ) (Biotage), (Nasdaq Stockholm: BIOT.ST) has today resolved to initiate negotiations to acquire the Danish company Chreto ApS (“Chreto”) following a decision not to exercise the current call option to acquire all outstanding shares in Chreto. On August 31, 2016, Biotage published that Biotage had invested 15 MDKK (corresponding to approx. [...]

Hamburg, December 2018 Eppendorf reached a further milestone of sustainability by focusing the flagship ULT freezer CryoCube F740 series on future-proof green cooling liquids only: The new F740h, the advanced F740hi, and the water-cooled F740hiw. By combining longevity and quality with sustainability aspects, the CryoCube F740h is the entry model of the CryoCube F740 series. [...]

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 [...]