November 3, 2014
A California-based medical diagnostics and life sciences manufacturing and sales company, Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Bio-Rad), has agreed to pay a $14.35 million penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by falsifying its books and records and failing to implement adequate internal controls in connection with sales it made in [...]
November 3, 2014
ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and Technology company, today announced that it has filed a definitive proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the pending acquisition of the Company by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and has set the date for a special meeting of stockholders to [...]
Bruker Completes Divestiture of its Gas Chromatography Product Lines
November 3, 2014
FREMONT, Calif. -- Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that it completed the divestiture of its Gas Chromatography (GC) and GC single-quadrupole (GC-SQ) mass spectrometry products to Techcomp Europe Ltd., a subsidiary of Techcomp (Holdings) Ltd, on October 31st, 2014. Techcomp intends to continue to manufacture the former Bruker GC and GC-SQ SCION™ products in [...]
IRISH NANOTECH COMPANY RECEIVES €750,000 IN FUNDING
November 2, 2014
Dublin -- Adama Innovations Ltd, an early stage company focused on deploying nanotechnology to common manufacturing processes, has secured €750,000 in seed-funding. The investment will enable Adama to scale up production of their first product, a nano-scale probe fabricated from diamond, used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, and manipulates matter at the [...]
Scion Instruments is established by Techcomp from the acquisition of Bruker GC and GC-MS SQ assets
October 31, 2014
Techcomp (Holdings) Ltd. (“Techcomp”) is delighted to announce the acquisition of the ex-Varian GC and GC-MS SQ assets from Bruker Corporation (“Bruker”) and the establishment of a new business - Scion Instruments - registered in Fremont California. The GC and GC-MS SQ systems and Compass CDS software will be supplied and managed by the existing [...]
New 2014-2015 Mystaire® full-line Laboratory Safety Equipment catalogs are now available.
October 31, 2014
Mystaire® is pleased to announce the release of the new 2014-2015 catalog. Mystaire® has manufactured ductless laboratory safety products for more than 50 years. The new 2014-2015 catalog includes ductless hoods, workstations and enclosure as well as photos, specs and overviews on a full range of products to protect the operator or process. Featured is [...]
New Biotage® SNAP ULTRA C18 Cartridges – High Performance Reversed Phase Flash Purification
October 30, 2014
Biotage® SNAP ULTRA C18 reversed phase cartridges are optimized for use with Biotage ACI™ and Isolera™ flash systems and are available in 12 g, 30 g, 60 g, 120 g, 400 g, 950 g and 1850 g cartridge sizes. They enable chemists to confidently load 2-3% weight percentage of samples onto reversed phase columns, a [...]
HTG Announces Completion of IVD Development and Supply Agreement With Illumina
October 30, 2014
HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (HTG), a provider of instruments and reagents for molecular profiling applications, today announced that it entered into an agreement with Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN), under which HTG will have the right to develop certain in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) test kits that utilize Illumina sequencing technology. "We believe pairing the HTG EdgeSeq chemistry and [...]
Simple Technology Could Reduce Cost of Fluorescence-based Instrumentation by More than Five-fold
October 30, 2014
Chandler, Arizona -- Today BCR Diagnostics, Inc. announced the discovery of “Fiber-based Internal Reflection” (FiBIR™), an unprecedented optical phenomenon poised to revolutionize the growing field of fluorescence-based testing. The technology has demonstrated a 50-fold amplification of fluorescent signal making it exceptionally sensitive and cost-effective. “FiBIR technology will drive development of next-generation fluorometers to be used [...]
Rancho BioSciences Manually Curated TCGA Data Sets Available
October 30, 2014
San Diego, CA -- Rancho BioSciences, the scientific data consulting company announced today that they have manually curated public data source TCGA for several of their Pharma and non profit customers. the data is now available for other oncology groups. Rancho BioSciences manually curates and unifies public and internal data sources for their Pharma, Government [...]
