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 [...]

Woolpit, United Kingdom: Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, has been chosen by Phenom-World to supply the Microtest Tensile Stage as an accessory to their Phenom XL range of desktop scanning electron microscopes. Phenom-World, the leading global supplier of desktop scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), [...]

Porvair Sciences reports that the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India is using its Krystal 384 black microplate to produce a standard drug testing assay for Plasmodium vivax infection. The NCBS (https://indiabioscience.org/orgs/ncbs) is a leading national institute whose faculty members undertake research in the frontier areas of biology. Scientists at the NCBS use experimental and [...]

Project is first for MilliporeSigma’s Massachusetts BioReliance® End-to-End Solutions center Collaboration gives Angiex access to MilliporeSigma’s process development tools and technologies Billerica, Massachusetts — MilliporeSigma today announced a new collaboration with Angiex, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, to support the biotechnology start-up’s ability to speed its lead oncology antibody drug candidate to clinical use. Angiex is developing an antibody-drug conjugate [...]

Shiseido Company, Limited (hereinafter, Shiseido) hereby announces that it has reached an agreement on transferring the shares of its consolidated subsidiary, Shiseido Irica Technology Inc. (hereinafter, Irica Technology) and the assets associated with the chromatography business*1 owned by Shiseido to OSAKA SODA Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, Osaka Soda). 1.Background Shiseido Group has been revisiting the business [...]

Integration of ACD/Labs' NMR prediction software with Pearson's online digital learning technology helps undergraduate students learn about the relationship between spectroscopic data and chemical structures Toronto, Canada —ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes solutions in support of chemical and pharmaceutical R&D, today announced a collaboration with Pearson, the world's learning company, which now [...]