Neogen COO resigns

LANSING, Mich. -— Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced today that Stephen Snyder, Neogen's chief operating officer and president, has resigned, effective July 31, 2014. The company said he will work as a consultant going forward on special projects. His resignation is for personal matters. Snyder has been in this position since September 2013. On an [...]

Omixon Launches Holotype HLA for NGS-based HLA Genotyping

Budapest, Hungary & Cambridge, MA -- Global biotechnology company Omixon, headquartered in Budapest with US offices in Cambridge, MA, announces the launch of Omixon Holotype HLA™ - a combination Assay and Software product that leverages the power of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), for use on the Illumina® MiSeq sequencing platform. The assay and software have [...]

3M Introduces the Emphaze AEX Hybrid Purifier

ST. PAUL, Minn.-- 3M Purification will unveil a new purification technology at INTERPHEX 2014 designed to help biopharmaceutical manufacturers achieve high product purity early in the manufacturing process, improving efficiency and process economics. The new 3M™ Emphaze™ AEX Hybrid Purifier combines three unique 3M technologies — advanced polymer materials, fine fiber nonwovens, and membranes — [...]

WaferGen Bio-Systems Announces Appointment of Ivan Trifunovich as Chairman of the Board; Joel Kanter to Serve as Lead Independent Director

FREMONT, Calif. -— WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCBB: WGBSD) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Ivan Trifunovich, the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, as Chairman of the Board. Joel Kanter, a director of the company since 2007, will serve as lead independent director. Alnoor Shivji, the company’s Chairman since 2002, resigned from [...]

This software is designed for easy-to-use analysis of FCS files (including list mode data files) obtained on standard flow cytometers. The wizard takes you step-by-step to help you get meaningful data from your experiments rapidly and easily. A USB dongle, which comes with each LEGENDplex™ kit, is required for full access. Each dongle provides 2600 [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Signs Agreement to Sell Cole-Parmer

WALTHAM, Mass.-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Cole-Parmer channel business to private equity firm GTCR, LLC for $480 million in cash. Cole-Parmer, based in Vernon Hills, Illinois, is a provider of fluid handling, test and measurement, and [...]

AgileBio releases new chemical structures tools in LabCollector LIMS & ELN

Paris, France -- AgileBio announces the release of a new substructure search engine for its LabCollector Chemical Structures module. Searching molecules can now be easily made using simple SMILES queries or even graphically designed. Queries can also be made by importing MOL representations. This search tool allows a quick and effective management of all LabCollector [...]

New software for Malvern’s NanoSight NTA systems improves user experience and enhances performance

Malvern, UK: Malvern Instruments has launched NTA 3.0, a new version of the software that drives its NanoSight Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) systems. With an improved, easy-to-use interface, the new NTA 3.0 software makes accessing programs and protocols quick and convenient. It also incorporates an upgraded high-resolution particle size distribution algorithm, and supports advanced image [...]

Implant Sciences Ships $550,000 in Explosives Trace Detectors to Domestic and International Customers

WILMINGTON, Mass.-- Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB:IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today stated that it has shipped over $550,000 in previously unannounced orders of QS-H150 and QS-B220s to multiple customers in North America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Customers for the handheld and desktop explosives trace [...]

Digital Surf & Image Metrology Join Forces

Besançon, France and Hørsholm, Denmark-- Digital Surf, a leading provider of surface imaging and metrology software for microscopes and profilers, and Image Metrology, a leading provider of nano- and microscale image processing software, have announced that they are joining forces. Digital Surf has acquired a 100% interest in Image Metrology. Both companies will continue to [...]

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