August 5, 2014
Boston, MA –– Andrew Alliance announced today that the Company will be opening up a Boston office in Copley Square. The Company also announced the closing of a series B financing round from Omega Funds, a leading global healthcare fund specializing in late stage life science investments. The Omega investment will enable Andrew Alliance to [...]
Spring Mountain Capital, LP Leads Investment in IsoPlexis Corporation
August 5, 2014
New York, NY -- Spring Mountain Capital, LP, a New York-based investment management firm, announced today that its private equity group structured and led a growth equity investment in IsoPlexis Corporation. IsoPlexis has developed a break-through single cell immunoassay and related software that provides in-depth understanding of immune and cancer cells. The Company’s advanced cell [...]
Simulations Plus Releases ADMET Predictor Version 7.1
August 5, 2014
LANCASTER, Calif. -- Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of consulting services and software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that it has released version 7.1 of its best-in-class ADMET Predictor™ molecular property prediction software. “Industry scientists increasingly prefer automating analyzing and reporting scientific data. KNIME is an open automation platform whose [...]
AMETEK announces two acquisitions
August 5, 2014
BERWYN, PA -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that it has completed two acquisitions: AMPTEK, Inc., a privately held provider of x-ray detectors used to identify the composition of materials using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) within the metal, environmental monitoring, petrochemical, semiconductor and research markets. Headquartered in Bedford, MA, Amptek provides instrumentation and detectors used [...]
Rigaku launches the XtaLAB PRO series of single crystal X-ray diffraction HPAD-based systems
August 5, 2014
Tokyo, Japan -- Rigaku Corporation today announces the release of a new product line for single crystal diffraction. The XtaLAB PRO series is designed around hybrid pixel array detector (HPAD) technology, a technology that produces the best possible single crystal diffraction data available today. At the core of the system is the Dectris PILATUS 200K [...]
August 5, 2014
Tokyo, Japan -- Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its confocal image single-cell drug discovery support system has been selected for the Japan Science and Technology Agency's (JST) next-generation technology transfer program (NexTEP). NexTEP was created to promote efforts by companies to find practical applications for the technologies (including those covered by patents) and research findings [...]
August 4, 2014
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has released the OneSight high-speed detector for use with its XRD-6100/7000 X-ray diffractometers. The OneSight achieves high-sensitivity analysis, more than 100 times higher than scintillation detectors. The silicon detector features 1,280 channels, which enables a wide range of diffraction angles to be measured at once for higher throughput. By using specified diffraction [...]
BIO-TECHNE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF BRENDA FURLOW AS GENERAL COUNSEL
August 4, 2014
Minneapolis -- Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) (d/b/a Bio-Techne), a leading global provider of life science reagents and clinical controls, announces the appointment of Brenda S. Furlow as Senior Vice President and General Counsel effective August 4, 2014. Ms. Furlow is a legal executive with experience in several globally diverse technology businesses, and has a broad [...]
August 4, 2014
Today Johnson Matthey, Oxford University and Diamond Light Source announce the creation of a state-of-the-art materials characterisation facility at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. This world class site is close to both Oxford University and Johnson Matthey’s Sonning Common Research laboratories and is home to Diamond, the UK’s synchrotron science facility, where currently 24 [...]
FEI Reports New Advances in Neuroscience in Collaboration With NIH
August 4, 2014
HILLSBORO, Ore.-- FEI is pleased to announce that researchers at the NIH-FEI Living Lab for Structural Biology have achieved breakthrough biological results, using FEI's Titan Krios™ transmission electron microscope (TEM), to elucidate the structural mechanism by which glutamate receptors participate in the transmission of signals between neurons in the brain. Their work is described in [...]
