Phase Genomics Announces Commercial Availability of Rapid End-to-End Genome Assembly Service

Proximo™ solution addresses long-standing problem in genome assembly. San Diego, CA Seattle-based Phase Genomics has announced the general availability of Proximo™, a new service providing complete end-to-end genome assemblies to researchers around the globe. Long considered a “holy grail” in biological research, access to complete genomes eliminates a major obstacle in answering a wide range [...]

William Linton is new member of the Supervisory Board of Eppendorf AG

Hamburg, Germany –  On January 9, 2017, William A. Linton was elected as a member of the Supervisory Board of Eppendorf AG, Hamburg, during an extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting. “With William Linton, we are very pleased to welcome a successful entrepreneur and experienced manager from the life science sector to our Supervisory Board,” stated Philipp von Loeper, [...]

FireflySci Turns Up the Voltage With New Electroporation Cuvettes

FireflySci now features three different lightpath options of electroporation cuvettes for use with E. coli, bacteria, yeast, mammalian and stem cells. Staten Island, NY FireflySci has been busy rolling out new products to meet every cuvette-related demand that it has found among its diverse customer base. The latest entry in this field is a series of electroporation [...]

KKR Announces Tender Offer to Acquire Hitachi Koki

Hitachi and Hitachi Urban Investment Agree to Tender Their Holdings of Hitachi Koki Shares KKR to support accelerated global growth of Hitachi Koki TOKYO-- Leading global investment firm KKR today announced that HK Holdings Co., Ltd. (the "Bidder"), an entity owned by investment funds controlled by KKR, intends to make a tender offer for all [...]

Notification of Subscription to Tender Offer for Shares, etc. of Subsidiary

Tokyo, Japan --- Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, “Hitachi”) today announced that it has executed an agreement (the “Agreement”) with HK Holdings Co., Ltd. (Representative Director: William Janetschek; the “Offeror”), all of whose issued shares are owned by investment funds related to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (Co-Chairman and Co-CEO: Henry R. Kravis, George R. Roberts; [...]

FireflySci Enters Fiber Optic Probe Market With Several New Offerings

This month FireflySci, is announcing the release of three new fiber optic probe offerings for in-situ measurements: an Attentuated Total Reflectance Probe, a single and double pass transmission probe and a fluorescence probe. Staten Island, NY FireflySci, in response to several customers’ inquiries, has teamed up with several companies to offer its customers three new solutions for [...]

Versatile Laboratory Sample Sealer

Porvair Sciences announces the introduction of Autocapper - a versatile electronic applicator that enables friction sample seals to be quickly and securely applied to both microplates and microtube racks. The simplicity of the Autocapper design, which features a drawer to hold your microplate and cap mat, ensures highly reliable, high integrity sample sealing over many years’ [...]

Bell Flow Systems Launch New Range of Water Quality Products

Bell Flow Systems have recently released a complete range of process water sensors ideal for measuring and recording water quality. Buckingham, United Kingdom-- Introducing a comprehensive selection of water quality instruments from Electro Chemical Devices (ECD) including the popular T80 Transmitters and the new S80 Sensors, now available from Bell Flow Systems. The S80 Intelligent [...]

IDBS launches The E‑WorkBook Cloud

Combining the most powerful R&D software platform with the benefits and flexibility of the cloud Boston, US & London, UK – IDBS has today launched The E‑WorkBook Cloud, an enterprise, Cloud-based platform designed specifically to meet the future challenges of scientific and R&D data management. Featuring eight intuitive modules, The E‑WorkBook Cloud allows customers to select [...]

New GeneSys image capture software now available to download

Cambridge, UK: Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce its GeneSys software has been upgraded to include an icon of pre-set optimised “stain-free” protein gel imaging conditions. This simple to use software, available to download free of charge to existing users of specified Syngene imaging systems, will save set-up time [...]

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