Agilent Technologies Announces CEO Transition: Mike McMullen to Succeed Bill Sullivan in March 2015

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Mike McMullen, senior vice president, Agilent, and president of the company's Chemical Analysis Group (CAG), will succeed William (Bill) Sullivan as CEO on March 18, 2015. Sullivan will remain as an advisor through the end of the company's fiscal year, Oct. 31, 2015, [...]

DNASTAR Awarded Antibody Engineering Software SBIR Grant

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR® announced that it received a Phase II SBIR grant award from the National Institutes of Health entitled, “Structural bioinformatics software for epitope selection and antibody engineering”. This is the second phase of a project for which the first phase concluded in 2013, resulting in the creation of a new epitope prediction [...]

Agilent Technologies Creates New Group for Services and Consumables

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has created a new services and consumables organization, the Agilent CrossLab Group, and named Mark Doak group president, effectively immediately. Doak has been senior vice president and general manager of the Services and Support Division. "Services has become a strategic business for Agilent [...]

Ocean Optics Names World Cup of Applications Contest Winners

Dunedin, Florida, USA -– After collecting entries from around the globe, Ocean Optics has named two winners of its World Cup of Applications contest. Andreas Burkart won for The Faint Red Glow of Photosynthesis, and a group effort submitted by Bruce Robertson won for Polarized Light Pollution: A New Kind of Ecological Photopollution. Contest winners [...]

3M™ Molecular Detection Assay Listeria monocytogenes has been approved by the AOAC® Performance Tested MethodsSM program (Certification #051401).

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- 3M Food Safety announced today that its 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay Listeria monocytogenes has been approved by the AOAC® Performance Tested MethodsSM program (Certification #051401). The approval certifies that the test kit, which helps food processors and other parties quickly and accurately detect Listeria monocytogenes, is now considered equivalent or better [...]

Analytik Jena Closes Acquisition of Bruker’s ICP-MS Business and Begins Integration Process

Jena, Germany -- Analytik Jena AG, a manufacturer of analytical measuring technology and life science instruments today announced that it has closed the acquisition of the ICP-MS business of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) on September 12, 2014. The integration process has begun, and it is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014. “I [...]

Bruker Launches the First Guaranteed AFM TERS Solution

SANTA BARBARA, California –– Bruker today announced the launch of the new-generation Innova-IRIS, the first guaranteed Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) system specifically designed to accelerate the adoption and time-to-publish of nano-Raman spectroscopy research. The new system combines Bruker-exclusive, high-contrast tuning-fork-based TERS probes with high-performance AFM and nano-Raman spectroscopy capabilities to provide a consistently high TERS [...]

Claudia Toussaint to join Xylem as General Counsel

RYE BROOK, N.Y. -– Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, today announced the appointment of Claudia Toussaint as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, effective October 29, 2014. She will report directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Decker, [...]

FLUIDIGM’S NEW JUNO™ SYSTEM SHATTERS BARRIERS FOR SNP GENOTYPING

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today launched an early access program for its new SNP genotyping platform, the Juno™ System, for its key production genomics customers and prospects. The new sample prep engine for SNP genotyping allows scientists to genotype low-concentration DNA samples from tissue, buccal swabs, FFPE, and polyploid organisms in [...]

BASi Names Connie Dougherty Vice President Business Development

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. BASI, +2.18% today announced the appointment of Connie Dougherty as Vice President of Business Development reporting to BASi President and Chief Executive Officer Jacqueline Lemke. She will provide leadership to drive BASi’s growth initiatives and efforts to expand the Company’s footprint. “Connie comes to BASi with 25 years [...]

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