Datacolor: Promotion of Diane Geisler to Vice President of Marketing

Lucerne - The Board of Directors promotes Diane Geisler to Vice President of Marketing and member of the Executive Committee, effective October 1, 2016. The Marketing Services and Product Management functions will be consolidated under her management to strengthen the efficiency and collaboration of the marketing department. During the last 4 years Diane Geisler has [...]

Dharmacon™ Edit-R™ Human Druggable Genome crRNA Library for high-throughput CRISPR-Cas9 functional genomics screening

The first synthetic CRISPR RNA arrayed library targeting nearly 8,000 genes provides a one-gene-per-well drug discovery screening tool for loss-of-function studies Dharmacon™ Edit-R™ Human Druggable Genome crRNA Library from GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business enables screening of nearly 8,000 individual targets with CRISPR-Cas9 gene knockout. The first arrayed synthetic CRISPR RNA (crRNA) library of its [...]

GE to invest €150 million in biopharmaceutical manufacturing campus in Cork, Ireland, and establish advanced manufacturing training centre at NIBRT

· GE plans to establish four prefabricated, off-the-shelf biologics factories for GE customers in GE BioPark Cork, creating up to 500 jobs · GE’s factory is between 25 and 50 percent more cost-effective to build than traditional manufacturing facilities · GE is also in the process of setting up a training collaboration with National Institute [...]

DiscoverX Launches Cell-Based Assays for Confirmation of Compound-Target Engagement in Drug Discovery

FREMONT, Calif.-- DiscoverX Corporation, the leading supplier of innovative cell-based assays and services for drug discovery and development, today announced the launch of InCELL Pulse™ target engagement platform that provides scientists with the ability to generate their own cell-based target engagement assays for confirming compound cell entry and target binding in the native cellular environment. [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of FEI Company

WALTHAM, Mass.----Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of FEI Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEIC), the leader in high-performance electron microscopy, for $107.50 per share in cash, or a total purchase price of approximately $4.2 billion. The completion of the transaction follows the [...]

Dovetail Genomics and Illumina to Co-Market Dovetail’s Full-Service Genome Assembly

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – Dovetail GenomicsTM LLC today announced it has signed a co-marketing agreement with Illumina for the promotion of Dovetail’s genome sequencing and assembly services for long-range sequencing applications leveraging Illumina sequencing technology. Dovetail’s in vitro proximity ligation-based ChicagoTM libraries, prepared for Illumina platforms, generate read-pairs that span genome distances up to the [...]

BankM exclusively advised Jinan Hanon Instruments Co., Ltd. in the acquisition of a majority stake in Gesellschaft für analytische Sensorsysteme mbH

? Consideration paid out, complying to all governmental regulations ? Close cooperation of both sites in Germany and China planned ? Access for German high-tech products to the growing Chinese market Frankfurt – Jinan Hanon Instruments Co., Ltd. („Hanon“), a fast growing manufacturer of analytical instruments and solutions, which contribute to food safety and nutrition [...]

Ulrich Krauss to Succeed Analytik Jena Founder Klaus Berka as CEO on October 1, 2016

Jena (Germany) – A change at the top for Analytik Jena AG. The Board member responsible for Sales and Marketing, Ulrich Krauss, will become the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer as of October 1, 2016. Klaus Berka, who founded Analytik Jena with two partners in April 1990 and has led the Company ever since, will [...]

PI Launches 2nd Generation PInano® Piezo Stage for SR Microscopy

Affordable system with a new all-digital servo controller and auto-calibration chip, long-life PICMA® piezo drives comes in 6 different variations optimized for travel range, speed, linearity, and stability. Auburn, MA Piezo scanners are fundamental tools for high resolution microscopy as the rapid response and sub-atomic resolution is instrumental in acquiring high-quality images quickly. As an [...]

Photon Control Provides Litigation Update

Burnaby, B.C. – Photon Control Inc. (“Photon Control” or the “Company”) (TSX?V: PHO), a leading developer of optical measurement technologies, provides an update to the lawsuit commenced in the Supreme Court of British Columbia against Photon Control R&D Ltd. ("Photon R&D") and others announced by news release dated August 23, 2016. On September 1 and [...]

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