VWR Corporation Announces Private Offering of Senior Notes
March 17, 2015
Radnor, PA -- VWR Corporation (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading, independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions to the global life sciences, general research and applied markets, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, VWR Funding, Inc. (the "Issuer"), intends to offer, subject to market and other customary conditions, €500 million in aggregate principal amount [...]
ROTEIN METRICS INC. AND SCIEX PUSH NEW BOUNDARIES IN BIOTHERAPEUTIC DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
March 17, 2015
SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Protein Metrics Inc., an innovative developer of software solutions for protein characterization and SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today released details of their co-marketing agreement for the use of Byomap(TM) and Byologic(®) with SCIEX TripleTOF(®) instruments. Protein Metrics supplies software to automate multiple aspects of biotherapeutic protein [...]
March 17, 2015
PANalytical, a world leader in state-of-the-art pixel detector technologies, announces a new detector for X-ray diffraction (XRD) at PITTCON 2015. The new GaliPIX3D will be shown on PANalytical’s flagship X-ray diffractometer, Empyrean - the flexible and future-proof multipurpose laboratory instrument for an ever-changing materials landscape. GaliPIX3D is intended to further expand the range of X-ray [...]
March 17, 2015
Boston, MA -– Cartagenia, leader in providing clinical genetics and pathology labs with variant assessment & reporting support software, today announced a partnership with Lexington, MA-based N-of-One, an industry-leading provider of patient-specific Clinical Interpretation for molecular profiles at the disease, gene and variant level. With the availability of N-of-One’s services from within the Bench Lab [...]
Merck Places U.S. Bond Amounting to US$ 4.0 Billion
March 17, 2015
Darmstadt, Germany -- Merck, a leading company for innovative and top-quality high-tech products in healthcare, life science and performance materials, successfully placed a U.S. bond via its U.S. subsidiary EMD Finance LLC. The oversubscribed placement is an important element of the financing of the proposed acquisition of the life science company Sigma-Aldrich, which Merck announced [...]
M2 BLIZZARD – A New Member of Bruker’s M-Series of Micro-XRF Spectrometers Launched Today
March 17, 2015
SHANGHAI, CHINA –– At the 24th China International PCB and Assembly Show (CPCA), Bruker today introduces the M2 BLIZZARD, a small-spot X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer specifically designed for the nondestructive analysis of printed circuit boards (PCB) in accordance with ASTM B568 and DIN/ISO 3497 standards. Utilizing Bruker’s XSpect Pro and XData software packages, the M2 [...]
March 17, 2015
PROVO, Utah and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- DNAnexus, a pioneer in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, and Tute Genomics, a leading genome annotation and interpretation platform, today announced an integrated solution for genomic data management. Customers will be able to access the Tute platform and DNAnexus pipelines from either company's cloud environment. DNAnexus provides [...]
Smiths Detection’s next-generation trace explosives detector wins ECAC approval
March 17, 2015
Watford, UK -– Smiths Detection’s newly launched IONSCAN 600, a non-radioactive, portable explosives detector, has gained a key approval from the ECAC (European Civil Aviation Conference) Management Group. ECAC ruled that the IONSCAN 600 meets the ETD (Explosives Trace Detection) EU standard for passenger and cargo checkpoint screening and is the first UK-built detector to [...]
March 16, 2015
BALTIMORE –– InstantLabs announced today the expansion of its SpeciesID product line by offering DNA-based tests for Atlantic and Coho salmon. InstantLabs SpeciesID™ tests provide accurate DNA verification in under two hours. The launch of the salmon test kits highlights InstantLabs’ efforts to meet market demand by expanding the affordable, simple-to-use InstantID™ product line. The [...]
FEI Joins University of Ulm and CEOS on SALVE Project Research Collaboration
March 16, 2015
HILLSBORO, Ore. -- FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Germany's University of Ulm and Heidelberg-based CEOS GmbH to develop a sub-?ngström low-voltage electron microscope, in the frame of Uni-Ulm's SALVE project. The multi-year collaboration will involve the planned development of a dedicated aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (TEM) that is [...]
