Alpaqua Engineering, LLC and NimaGen, B.V. Announce Distribution Agreement for Alpaqua Magnet Plates

Beverly, MA, USA and Nijmegen, the Netherlands -- Alpaqua Engineering, LLC, a provider of innovative genomic tools and solutions, announces today it has entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement with NimaGen, B.V., a leading provider of high quality, molecular biology products. In the terms of the agreement, NimaGen will distribute Alpaqua’s full line of magnet [...]

LUM GmbH opens own application laboratory in Paris

Berlin -- The new application lab of LUM GmbH opens in Plaisir, a Western suburb of Paris, on October, 1st 2014. „The opening of the application laboratory is the next logical step in the further development of the French market for LUM products as well as for the optimum customer service in France. It is [...]

VWR Corporation Prices Initial Public Offering

Radnor, PA -— VWR Corporation (NASDAQ: VWR) announced today that it has priced an underwritten initial public offering of 25,532,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $21.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “VWR” on Thursday, [...]

Tepnel Pharma Services becomes Authorised Affymetrix Service Provider – Launches OncoScan® FFPE Service

Hologic, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostic products, medical imaging systems and surgical products, with an emphasis on serving the healthcare needs of women, announced today that Tepnel Pharma Services (Tepnel), a subsidiary of Hologic, has become an authorised Affymetrix Service Provider and has launched the Affymetrix OncoScan FFPE Service. Tepnel’s [...]

Cyto Study Manager Selected by Roche to Harmonize Genetic Toxicology Assay Processes

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA -- Instem, a leading provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, announced today that Roche has selected their recently launched Cyto Study Manager™ software system to support their genetic toxicology research program. Developed by Perceptive Instruments, which is now operating as part of Instem, Cyto Study Manager integrates data [...]

FUNGITECT Consortium Adopts Genedata Selector™ as Data Analysis Platform for Anti-fungal R&D

Basel, Switzerland -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and related life science research, today announced that the FUNGITECT consortium has chosen Genedata Selector as its host-pathogen data analysis platform for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. FUNGITECT is a European consortium dedicated to improving the treatment of invasive fungal diseases via [...]

Advanced Photonix, Inc. Signs VAR Agreement with Seltek Ltd.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Advanced Photonix, Inc.® (NYSE MKT: API) today announced that it has signed a value-added reseller (VAR) agreement for its T-Gauge® industrial terahertz gauging system with Seltek Ltd. Seltek is a leading manufacturer of measurement and process control systems for continuous web production industries. The T-Gauge® measurement system can be used for [...]

Oxford Instruments raises the bar for scrap metals analysis with new, high-performance handheld XRF analyser

Scrap metal processing and recycling operations worldwide are set to boost their throughput and profitability with the announcement of the new X-MET8000 handheld (X-ray fluorescence) XRF analyser. This latest analyser from Oxford Instruments enables reliable, uninterrupted alloy identification, all-day long, in all weathers, adding value at every stage of the metal recycling process. More productive [...]

Shimadzu’s New Long-Travel Extensometer Increases Precision for Soft Material Testing

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has released the DSES-1000 long-travel contact extensometer, an easy-to-use and highly precise tool for measuring displacement in rubber and other soft materials with considerable elongation. With 1000-mm maximum movement distance, the DSES-1000 can measure elongations up to 4,000 percent for a gauge length of 10 mm. In addition, it achieves +/- 0.2 [...]

Development of Super Resolution Technology FV-OSR

Olympus Corporation (President: Hiroyuki Sasa) today announced the development of FV-OSR*1, a new super resolution technology from its Scientific Solutions Business, This unique technology is used in conjunction with the FLUOVIEW FV1200 biological confocal laser scanning microscope to enable observation of smaller features than is possible using the microscope on its own. *1 Olympus Super [...]

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