TOKYO-- Global investment firm KKR and leading power tool and life science equipment manufacturer Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. ("Hitachi Koki" or the "Company") today announced the completion of a tender offer by HK Holdings Co., Ltd. (the "Offeror"), an entity owned by KKR investment funds, for all the existing common shares and stock acquisition rights of Hitachi Koki. Approximately 89.79% of [...]

The Internet of Things Comes to Life Science- How Revolutionary Science’s Wi-Fi Enabled Incufridge Could Save Your Lab Time, Money, and Resources Minneapolis, MN The IoT (Internet of Things) is revolutionizing the way the world operates. Devices with internet and WiFi connectivity are making a huge impact on businesses and individual consumers alike. Laboratories can [...]

Expert-designed material for simplified validation of NGS-based panels MILFORD, Mass. -- SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories is announcing the launch of the industry’s first multiplexed Inherited Cancer reference material for inherited disease testing by next-generation sequencing (NGS).  The Seraseq™ Inherited Cancer DNA Mix reference materials were developed with [...]

New Service Combines Powerful Technology with Medical and Scientific Expertise PierianDx, the forerunner in clinical genomic analysis, interpretation and reporting, announced today at annual ACMG Clinical Genetics Meeting in Phoenix that it has launched clinical interpretation services as a part of its entire Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) service portfolio. The new service represents PierianDx’s continued [...]

Share loan from Dr. Heikki Lanckriet guarantees government soft loans Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany – SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced that Dr. Heikki Lanckriet, Co-CEO and CSO of SYGNIS, will guarantee soft loans from the Spanish government with 500,000 of his SYGNIS shares. The guarantee secures the EUR 1.9 [...]

Alliance creates industry's first complete solution for optimizing crude blending operations AUSTIN, TEXAS - Emerson Automation Solutions and TopNIR Systems, one of the world's leading providers of blend analysis technology, today announce the industry's first complete blending solution that includes online crude characterization. This same technology is also used to improve performance in the product [...]

One year after launching its unique 3D Cell Explorer (the first microscope able to look inside living cells without harming them, in 3D and real time), the EPFL spin-off reaches a new fundamental milestone for cell biology and microscopy and releases its latest pioneering product: the 3D Cell Explorer-fluo. The holo-tomographic technology proper of the [...]

Deal Represents GTCR’s Leaders Strategy at Work – Successful Corporate Carve-out Followed by Organic Growth and Strategic M&A CHICAGO, IL  GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has completed the sale of Cole-Parmer Instrument Company (“Cole-Parmer” or the “Company”) to Golden Gate Capital. Founded in 1955, Cole-Parmer is a global manufacturer and [...]

Acquisition will Expand VWRCATALYST Services Portfolio RADNOR, Pa. -- VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), the leading global independent provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production customers, announced today that it has acquired EPL Archives, Inc., an international biorepository services organization that supports customers across the entire regulated product research, development and commercialization lifecycle by providing archive [...]

LEIDEN - BIOKÉ, a business unit of Cell Signaling Technology Europe (CST Europe), and ACEA Biosciences, Inc., a high performance cell analysis platforms manufacturer, announced their partnership to exclusively distribute ACEA’s xCELLigence® Cell Analyzer in the BeNeLux countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg), effective immediately. The xCELLigence Real-Time Cell Analysis (RTCA) systems maximize the physiological relevance of data extracted from [...]