Ad-hoc announcement in accordance with Section 15 of the WpHG [German Securities Trading Act]: Application for Delisting

Jena (Germany)-– The Supervisory Board of Analytik Jena AG today approved the resolution of the Executive Board to submit an application to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to revoke the admission of its shares to the regulated market, including their current listing in the Prime Standard segment. The present listing of the shares for over-the-counter trading [...]

Merck Strengthens Executive Board

Darmstadt, Germany -– Merck today announced that the Board of Partners has promoted Stefan Oschmann (57) to the position of Deputy CEO and Vice Chairman of the Executive Board. Concurrently, Belén Garijo (54) was appointed to the Executive Board to take over leadership for the Pharma business. The management changes will become effective as of [...]

Sigma-Aldrich, University of Michigan Medical School Establish CRISPR Core Lab Partnership

ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced today it has entered into a new gene editing partnership with the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School's Vector Core. Under the partnership, Sigma-Aldrich will provide the Vector Core with Sigma CRISPR technology, experimental design consultation, and dedicated gene editing bioinformaticians. The partnership is poised to accelerate [...]

Sunquest Information Systems and Partners HealthCare Announce Strategic Alliance

BOSTON, MA and TUSCON, AZ — — Sunquest Information Systems and Partners HealthCare are establishing a strategic alliance to accelerate genomic-based medicine. The relationship involves a strategic investment by Sunquest into GeneInsight, Inc., an IT platform company that streamlines the analysis, interpretation, and reporting of complex genetic test results. Partners is a majority shareholder in [...]

Seward secures strong environmental credentials through ISO14001 Certification

Worthing, UK –- Seward Ltd., manufacturer of the world leading range of original Stomacher® paddle blenders and accessories used in sample preparation for microbiological analysis, has received certification for ISO14001. This internationally recognised certification confirms the Company’s commitment to minimising its environmental impact and continually improving its sustainable development. In line with ISO14001 requirements, Seward’s [...]

N-Zyme Scientifics Announces Successful Product Launch

Doylestown, PA -- N-Zyme Scientifics LLC achieved a major developmental milestone this month by successfully launching its first product a mere 8 months after company startup. Its novel product PNGase F PRIME™ is a high performance glycan release enzyme used in the “Biologics” industry for discovery and quality assurance, glycobiology research, and the basis for [...]

Bertin Technologies Launches Precellys® Evolution, Its Brand New Biological Sample Homogenizer in the Precellys Range

MONTIGNY LE BRETONNEUX, France -- In order to meet the needs of its clients in Life Sciences and Research and thus strengthen its position as leader for the lysing and homogenization of biological samples on the international market, Bertin Technologies is taking an innovative step forward, launching a new state-of-the-art apparatus called Precellys® Evolution. Precellys® [...]

SABIC signs MoU with hte – the high throughput experimentation company to fast-track catalysis R&D

HEIDELBERG, Germany -- SABIC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with hte in Heidelberg, Germany on September 5 to establish a satellite laboratory for high throughput experimentation to increase its R&D efficiency. hte is a leading high throughput experimentation company that provides a valuable upside to heterogeneous catalysis and enables fast track R&D. The MoU [...]

FEI Opens New Technology Center in Czech Republic

Brno, Czech Republic -— FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) announced today the opening of a new technology center in the industrial estate of ?ernovická Terasa, Brno, Czech Republic. With a surface area of 27.000 m2 (nearly 300,000 square feet), it is the largest technology plant built this year in the Czech Republic. FEI invested 800 million Czech [...]

Tebu-bio Adopts Toray’s 3D-Gene Platform for miRNA and mRNA Arrays Services

LE PERRAY-EN-YVELINES, France -- tebu-bio, a European-based services provider in genomics, proteomics and cell-based assays, announced this week that it will be offering Toray's 3D-Gene® microRNA and mRNA profiling technology to European researchers. Philippe Fixe, Marketing Manager at tebu-bio, indicated that this collaboration enables tebu-bio to provide a full set of services in the field [...]

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