March 23, 2015
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS II Sequencing System, today announced that the company has launched a Certified Service Provider (CSP) program and added new informatics partners to meet the increasing demand for Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing and data analysis worldwide. The PacBio CSP program [...]
Foundation of LAUDA Scientific GmbH as an independent company for measuring instruments
March 20, 2015
Lauda-Königshofen -- From March 1, 2015 the full subsidiary LAUDA Scientific will take over the development, sales and customer ser-vice for LAUDA measuring instruments. For the Managing Director Dr. Gunther Wobser this new foundation consti-tutes consistent development: "With this important step we would like to give the expanding business division of measuring instruments its own [...]
New tools and services for Immunotherapy discovery
March 20, 2015
AMSBIO has announced a new range of purified, soluble immunoreceptors involved in key signalling pathways. Together with new indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) assay kits these products that can be used to screen for inhibitors of protein-protein interaction, as well as neutralizing antibodies that serve as positive controls for inhibition. Immune evasion is one of the identifying [...]
March 20, 2015
ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL), a leading life science and high technology company, today launched the next phase of its global green chemistry initiative. The program, which aims to reduce the chemical-related impact on human health and the environment, kicks off with the first-ever "green" issue of the Company's chemical review journal Aldrichimica [...]
HORIBA Scientific launches SWIFT v2 module for ultra fast, high definition Raman imaging
March 20, 2015
HORIBA Scientific, global leader in Raman and optical spectroscopy systems for over 50 years, announces the release of their newest SWIFT v2 ultra fast confocal Raman imaging module. Available for the XploRATM PLUS and LabRAM Evolution, the new SWIFT v2 module greatly enhances the ability to obtain fast and detailed confocal Raman images with the [...]
March 19, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, UK -– Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the launch of version 6.1 of its StarDrop™ platform to guide researchers in the design of high quality compounds in drug discovery, agrochemicals and other chemistry fields. The latest release introduces the Matsy™ technology, based on matched molecular series analysis, which proposes [...]
Implant Sciences Extends Credit Agreements
March 19, 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 extension of its March 2014 secured credit agreements with DMRJ Group, LLC and the group of investors represented by BAM Administrative Services, LLC. DMRJ has agreed to extend the [...]
Leica EM Cryo CLEM Features the World’s First Cryo CLEM Objective
March 19, 2015
Vienna, Austria -- Leica Microsystems launches Leica EM Cryo CLEM, a system that facilitates correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM). In CLEM, the sample is studied under the fluorescence light microscope and the electron microscope. The system allows rapid screening of large areas and fast determination of regions of interest which can then be quickly [...]
March 19, 2015
HILDEN, Germany, and REDWOOD CITY, California -– QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a commercial agreement with GATC Biotech to provide GATC clients full access to QIAGEN’s Ingenuity® Variant AnalysisTM solution for analysis and interpretation of genetic data. GATC is one of Europe’s leading providers of DNA and RNA sequencing services [...]
VWR Corporation Prices Its 4.625% Senior Notes Due 2022
March 19, 2015
Radnor, PA -- VWR Corporation (the "Company") (NASDAQ: VWR) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, VWR Funding, Inc. (the "Issuer"), priced its private offering of €503.8 million in aggregate principal amount of its 4.625% senior notes due 2022 (the "Notes"). The Company anticipates that the closing of the offering will take place on or [...]
