SAN JOSE, CA, and SEATTLE, WA Labcyte Inc. and SEngine Precision Medicine today announced the companies are collaborating to fulfill the promise of personalized medicine by employing Labcyte’s advanced acoustic liquid handling solutions with SEngine’s unique functional drug testing approach with the mission to match cancer patients to the most effective and least toxic therapies available. SEngine employs functional [...]

Shimadzu announces the release of the EDX-8100 energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. This instrument offers enhanced versatility with the ability to analyze even light elements in liquid samples with high sensitivity by helium purging. In addition to retaining the excellent analysis capabilities, operability, and expandability of the EDX-8000 energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, the product’s [...]

JEOL Ltd. (President Gon-emon Kurihara) is pleased to announce the “JEOL-Nikon CLEM Solution Center”, a collaborative project between Nikon and JEOL Ltd., will be established on September 1, 2017. The center will be opened in the R & D Building of JEOL to provide experience in and collect and deliver technical information on cutting-edge CLEM* [...]

Kymriah™ (tisagenlecleucel, formerly CTL019), the first FDA-approved CAR-T cell therapy, uses CTS Dynabeads CD3/CD28 spherical beads to isolate, activate and expand T cells WALTHAM, Mass. -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new cell therapy for the treatment of patients up to 25 years of age with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia [...]

Recent market developments inspire ExcitePCR management to expand its product strategy to a planned rollout of a FireflyDX family of realtime pathogen detection systems, with the FireflyDX-Portable launch scheduled for the summer of 2018 and the FireflyDX-Handheld targeted for availability in 2019 Pleasanton, Calif. ExcitePCR™ today announced the FireflyDX-Portable™, a rechargeable bookbag-sized realtime pathogen detection [...]

Purchase of PMR and creation of Hygiena Mexico establishes permanent base in Mexico City   Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, today announced that it has acquired Pruebas Microbiologicas Rapidas (PMR), a Mexico City-based distributor that has long served as an independent partner of Hygiena [...]

New Food Safety Studio in Bellevue, Washington, serves as global center for innovation and collaboration Demonstration and training lab space extends product and process development to customers Billerica, Massachusetts — MilliporeSigma has opened its first global Food Safety Studio in Bellevue, Washington for manufacturers of all types of food (beef, poultry, produce, etc.) to collaborate with MilliporeSigma scientists [...]

OSAKA SODA CO., LTD. (the “Company”) today announced that effective August 29, 2017, the Company and Shiseido Company, Limited (“Shiseido”) has entered into an agreement that the Company will purchase all issued shares of Shiseido Irica Technology Inc., which is Shiseido’s consolidated subsidiary, and will acquire Chromatography Business of Shiseido China Co., Ltd., which is [...]

WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced that it has completed its acquisition of Patheon N.V. (NYSE: PTHN), a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, for approximately $7.2 billion. Today's close follows the expiration of Thermo Fisher's initial tender offer for Patheon at $35.00 per share [...]

San Diego: Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, and Quantum Design, a leading manufacturer and distributor of scientific and industrial instrumentation announce their new distribution partnership. Under the new agreement, Quantum Design South America will distribute Magritek’s product line of Spinsolve Benchtop NMR Spectrometers in South America. Commenting on the agreement, Andrew [...]