CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ:VIVO) today announced it has signed a new agreement with Premier, Inc. to offer the complete illumigene® molecular menu of tests to its members. Premier serves more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals and 110,000-plus other healthcare sites. This agreement offers each Premier healthcare facility the opportunity to implement rapid, [...]

THOUSAND OAKS, California -- Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) today announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement with a financial institution to repurchase 1,030,000 shares of Teledyne's common stock, pursuant to the company's previously announced share repurchase program. The estimated value of the accelerated repurchase transaction is approximately $100 million. Under Teledyne's [...]

RYE BROOK, N.Y.-- Xylem Inc. (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, announced today that it has signed a $7.3 million contract with Bahrain’s Ministry of Works to upgrade a wastewater treatment facility in Manama, the capital city of Bahrain. Under the contract, Xylem will design, [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) today announced the release of Xpert® TV, an on-demand molecular test for rapid, accurate and reproducible identification of Trichomoniasis (TV) infections in both males and females. The test will be marketed as a CE-IVD product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices, bringing the total number of [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. –– European laboratories testing feed and food for dioxins and dioxin-like substances now have lower-cost, smaller-footprint alternatives to high-resolution mass spectrometers (HRMS) for confirming levels of the toxic contaminants, thanks to a new European Union regulation. Thermo Fisher Scientific worked closely with national reference labs (NRLs) in the European Union to support [...]

LANCASTER, Calif.-- Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Agreement”) with Cognigen Corporation of Buffalo, New York, announced on July 23, 2014, has been closed as of today and the two companies are now [...]

HILLSBORO, Ore.-- FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced today its new Teneo VS™ scanning electron microscope (SEM), which offers a VolumeScope™ capability for life science applications. The Teneo platform tightly integrates FEI's latest-generation SEM with VolumeScope, an in-chamber microtome and proprietary analytical software to provide fully-automated, large-volume reconstructions with dramatically improved z-axis resolution. The Teneo VS will be [...]

Eagle Genomics, a bioinformatics software and services company propelling new opportunities in large scale omics data and its application to real world problems in health and wellness, food and environmental sectors, has launched Eaglecore™, a software platform to improve bioinformatics research. The benefits of Eaglecore are significant, accelerating the opportunities offered by genomics and new [...]

Selected for its technical knowledge, competitive prices, and commitment to customer service, Dakota® Instruments, a global supplier of industrial and laboratory processing instrumentation since 1992, is pleased to announce its status as an authorized Oakton® and Digi-Sense® distributor. Digi-Sense®'s hand-held meters and Oakton®'s Testrs have been added to Dakota(r)'s acrylic, rotameter, mass flow meter and [...]

Ipswich, MA, USA -– In commemoration of its 40th anniversary, New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB®) today announced the Passion in Science Awards™ which recognize members of the scientific community who are committed to making a difference through their science, humanitarian service, environmental stewardship or artistic and creative spirit. “We’ve always believed that science is more [...]