Luminex Corporation Receives CE-IVD Mark for NxTAG® Respiratory Pathogen Panel
October 19, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas -- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that it has received CE-IVD marking for its NxTAG® Respiratory Pathogen Panel. The Panel detects 21 clinically-relevant viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens, including the atypical bacteria Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Legionella pneumophila. The NxTAG Respiratory Pathogen Panel is the only respiratory assay that easily enables [...]
Implant Sciences Announces Executive Promotions
October 16, 2015
WILMINGTON, Mass. -- Implant Sciences Corporation(OTCQB:IMSC), a leading manufacturer of explosives trace detection (ETD) and drugs trace detection solutions for homeland security applications, today announced the following executive promotions: Todd Silvestri, formerly Implant's Vice President of Technology, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer; and Dr. Darryl Jones, Implant's former Vice President, Global Sales and [...]
WaferGen Bio-systems Announces Pricing of $15 Million Underwritten Offering
October 16, 2015
FREMONT, Calif. -- WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WGBS) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of units for gross proceeds of $15 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company. The offering was priced at a public offering price of $1.00 per share of common stock (or [...]
October 16, 2015
SOUTH EASTON, Mass.-- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" and the "Company"), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure cycling technology ("PCT")-based sample preparation solutions to the worldwide life sciences industry, today announced a collaborative research and development agreement with Florida International University ("FIU"). The major goal of the agreement is [...]
October 16, 2015
HOLLISTON, Mass. -- Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of solutions to advance life science, will feature new and existing products from its expanded portfolio of brands at the Society for Neuroscience 2015 Annual Meeting at Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center on October 18-21. This year, for [...]
InSphero Adds Chief Financial Officer to Senior Management Team
October 15, 2015
Schlieren, Switzerland -- InSphero AG, the leading supplier of easy-to-use solutions for production, culture, and assessment of more organotypic 3D cell culture models, has appointed Oliver Krähenbühl to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Krähenbühl joins the InSphero senior management team having previously held CFO positions at HF Global Inc. New York, Canon, and JobCloud [...]
Affymetrix and Luminex Announce Distribution Agreement for Multiplexed Assay Instrument Platform
October 15, 2015
Santa Clara, Calif. and Austin, Texas – Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) and Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced a distribution agreement under which eBioscience, a business unit of Affymetrix, will sell Luminex’s MAGPIX®, Luminex® 200™ and FLEXMAP 3D® multiplexed assay platforms in specified countries in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Affymetrix will sell the Luminex [...]
ACEA Biosciences, Inc. Awards the 2015 iCELLigence Research Grant to Christian Owusu
October 15, 2015
San Diego, CA -- ACEA Biosciences, Inc. (ACEA) has awarded Christian Owusu, a Ph.D. candidate at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, the 2015 iCELLigence Research Grant for his proposal entitled “Host-parasite interactions during schistosomiasis infection: a study from the host and the parasite perspective”. Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, [...]
Gyros to Use 360-HCP Antibodies from BioGenes for Gyrolab™ Host Cell Protein Kits
October 15, 2015
Berlin, Germany, and Uppsala, Sweden – BioGenes GmbH, a global leader in host cell protein (HCP) assay development, and Gyros AB, a pioneer in miniaturizing and automating immunoassays at nanoliter-scale, announce a cooperation for use of BioGenes' 360-HCP antibodies in Gyrolab™ CHO-HCP Kits 2-5. The four Gyrolab™ CHO-HCP Kits, which have been introduced recently, quantify [...]
X-MET8000 Expert used to analyse historical artefacts at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
October 15, 2015
The X-MET8000 Expert handheld X-ray fluorescence analyser is regularly used at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford for the non-destructive elemental analysis of historical artefacts and works of art. When acquiring new items and collections or when studying existing ones, the museum’s conservation department uses a variety of techniques to analyse and characterise the artefacts [...]
