Sigma-Aldrich Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Roche

ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and Technology company, announced today it signed an exclusive global distribution agreement with Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY). The agreement pairs Roche'shigh-quality Biochemical Reagents product portfolio with the industry-leading eCommerce and supply chain capabilities of Sigma-Aldrich. Under the agreement, Sigma-Aldrich will employ its [...]

IonField Systems Launches New Products at SLAS 2015

Moorestown, NJ -- IonField Systems launched a series of new, innovative products at SLAS 2015 in Washington DC, February 7-11, that allow the reuse and recycling of life science consumables. The PlasmaKnife plasma cleaning system, a breakout, first-in-class product for renewal of standard and specialty microplates, was introduced as an early adopter program. The entirely [...]

Roche announces global distribution agreement for its Biochemical Reagents product portfolio with Sigma-Aldrich

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today a global distribution agreement for its Biochemical Reagents product portfolio with Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL). These products include kits and enzymes for cellular analysis, proteomics and conventional PCR applications. Under the terms of the agreement, Sigma-Aldrich will acquire exclusive rights for worldwide distribution of these products. Roche [...]

Children’s National Launches Sequencing Program Featuring Illumina’s NextSeq and GenomOncology’s GO Clinical Workbench

CLEVELAND -- GenomOncology LLC announced today that Children's National Health System has launched a clinical sequencing program that is utilizing GenomOncology's GO Clinical Workbench™. The workflow of the GO Clinical Workbench has been extended to address the needs of the constitutional pediatrics market. Seeing the need to internalize testing, Dr. Sean Hofherr, Director of Molecular [...]

Promega PowerQuant™ System Enables More Informed Casework Decisions

MADISON, WISCONSIN -- Promega PowerQuant™ System Enables More Informed Casework Decisions Promega Corporation announces the release of the PowerQuant™ System, a probe-based 4-target, 5-dye real-time PCR method. The system allows laboratories to determine human and male DNA concentrations in a sample, assess the integrity of the DNA sample and detect possible PCR inhibitors in approximately [...]

SYGNIS signs non-exclusive distribution agreement with SOPACHEM for TruePrime™ product family in Belgium

Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany -– SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced a distribution agreement with SOPACHEM for the commercialization of the TruePrime™ product family developed by SYGNIS and designed for whole genome amplification (WGA) in Belgium. Under the terms of the agreement, SOPACHEM will promote, market, sell and support TruePrime™ [...]

Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D., of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, to Join Agilent Technologies Board of Directors

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D., president of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, has been appointed to the company's board of directors, effective in July. Dr. Podolsky's appointment increases Agilent's board to 10 members. "We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Podolsky to [...]

MKS ACQUIRES PRECISIVE, LLC

ANDOVER, Mass. -- MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, announces the acquisition of Precisive, LLC, for $13 million in an all-cash transaction that closed yesterday. Precisive is an innovative developer of optical analyzers based on Tunable Filter Spectroscopy (TFS) which provide real-time gas analysis [...]

INTEGRA Biosciences Opens German Subsidiary

Following on from the successful launch of subsidiaries in France, the UK and the USA - INTEGRA Biosciences has announced the opening in January 2015 of a new organisation based in Konstanz, Germany. Leveraging an existing knowledgeable local sales and service team – INTEGRA Biosciences Deutschland GmbH was set up to market and provide top [...]

SCIENION US, Inc. receives ISO 13485 certification

Monmouth Junction, NJ, USA -- ISO 13485:2003 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer requirements and regulatory requirements applicable to medical devices and related services. "SCIENION had already earned a global reputation for producing very high [...]

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