VWR Corporation Announces Offering of 8,000,000 Shares by Selling Stockholder
April 1, 2016
Radnor, PA, - VWR Corporation (NASDAQ: VWR) announced the commencement of an underwritten public offering of 8,000,000 shares of its common stock by selling stockholder Varietal Distribution Holdings, LLC pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"). VWR will not receive any proceeds from this offering. [...]
March 31, 2016
WALTHAM, Mass. & SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, and Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX), a leading provider of cellular and genetic analysis products, announced that Thermo Fisher has completed its previously announced acquisition of Affymetrix for $14.00 per share in cash, for a total purchase [...]
March 31, 2016
BASINGSTOKE, England - To help safeguard against release of infant formula contaminated with Cronobacter bacteria, which can produce fatal effects on newborn and premature babies, a new simple-to-use PCR assay enables manufacturers and their suppliers to get fast and accurate test results on powdered infant formula, with and without pro-biotics, and on manufacturing environmental process [...]
PacBio’s SMRT Sequencing Provides Scientists with a Superior Gorilla Genome Reference
March 31, 2016
MENLO PARK, Calif., - Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) the pioneer and leader in long-read sequencing using its Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) technology, announced that scientists from the University of Washington, the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, and other institutions have published the best genome assembly of the gorilla to [...]
March 31, 2016
Hillsboro, Ore. and London, U.K. - FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) has partnered with five pharmaceutical companies: Astex Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Heptares Therapeutics, and UCB; the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB); and the University of Cambridge's Nanoscience Centre, to form the "Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium," which is the first of its kind worldwide. As [...]
Genomics Firm Nabsys Completes Financial Restructuring and Reinstates Technical Leadership Team
March 31, 2016
Providence, Rhode Island, – Genomics firm Nabsys has completed a financial restructuring under the leadership of founding CEO, Barrett Bready, M.D. who returned to the company in October, 2015. In addition, members of the original technical leadership team, including Chief Technology Officer, John Oliver, Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Product Development, Steve Nurnberg, and Vice [...]
March 31, 2016
Boston, MA, - At BioSistemika LLC they believe that laboratories deserve reliable and easy-to-use software at affordable prices. Now they will put the spotlight on sciNote, a free open source electronic lab notebook (ELN). sciNote offers the easiest way to manage scientific data and it will be officially launched on the 3rd of April at [...]
March 31, 2016
HOUSTON, - Lasergen, Inc. is expanding its team and realigning its board of directors as it begins development of a next-generation sequencing platform to address the needs of clinical applications. The actions follow a recently announced collaboration agreement and $80 million investment from Agilent Technologies, enabling funding of both the team's expansion and the commercialization [...]
March 31, 2016
Kleve, Germany — SPECTRO Analytical Instruments announced the introduction of the seventh generation of its SPECTROMAXx Arc/Spark Optical Emission Spectrometry (OES) metal analyzer that has been improved to deliver greater consumables savings and faster measurement time in the performance of material control analysis. Based on new technologies adapted from SPECTRO’s top-of-the-line analytical instruments, the new [...]
Origin 2016 SR2 is now available!
March 31, 2016
Origin 2016 SR2 is now available! This update can only be applied to version 2016 SR1 (build 273) . We encourage all users who have Origin/OriginPro 2016 SR1 to download this update.
