New Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Assays on the BD Viper™ LT System Receive CE/IVD Marking

Baltimore, MD -- BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced today that it has achieved CE/IVD marking for the BD ProbeTec™ Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) Qx Amplified DNA Assay and the BD ProbeTec™ Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) Qx Amplified DNA Assay on the BD Viper™ LT System. The BD Viper LT System is [...]

Viewpoint Laboratories to bundle Dark Reader transilluminators with new Polaroid Gel Camera systems

PUTNAM, Conn. -- Viewpoint Laboratories, LLC, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Clare Chemical Research, Inc., that enables Viewpoint Laboratories to sell Clare Chemical's Dark Reader blue LED transilluminator (model DR22A) in combination packages with Viewpoint's new Polaroid Z2300 Instant Print Digital Gel Camera Enclosure throughout the United States. Viewpoint Laboratories' [...]

Malvern Instruments completes acquisition of MicroCal and announces purchase of Archimedes product from Affinity Biosensors

Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK) has today announced that it has completed the acquisition of MicroCal from GE Healthcare Life Sciences and has also purchased the Archimedes particle characterization system from Affinity Biosensors LLC (Santa Barbara, CA). Both of these developments extend Malvern’s portfolio of analytical solutions for the rapidly advancing biopharmaceutical industry. The agreement [...]

Bio-Rad Announces the Appointment of New Board Member

Hercules, CA — - Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announced today that Joel McComb has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Mr. McComb has 25 years of life science and diagnostics business experience. Since mid-2010 he founded three technology companies in [...]

AMETEK Names Kurtis L. Goos, Vice President & General Manager, Engineered Medical Components

BERWYN, Pa.-- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced the appointment of Kurtis L. Goos as Vice President and General Manager, Engineered Medical Components, within AMETEK's Engineered Materials, Interconnects and Packaging (EMIP) Division. "I am pleased that Kurt has joined AMETEK. He has extensive general management and business development experience, especially in the medical device industry, [...]

Horizon Discovery and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization Sign Collaboration Agreement

Cambridge, UK -- Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced its Horizon CombinatoRx division has been contracted by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC) to perform in vitro cell line screening of certain OPDC development candidate(s). Pursuant [...]

Ametek Names Robert J. Amodei as Vice President, Audit Services

BERWYN, Pa.-- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that the Board of Directors has elected Robert J. Amodei as Vice President, Audit Services. He most recently has served as Director, Operational Accounting in AMETEK's Corporate Office. "I am pleased to announce Rob's promotion to Vice President, Audit Services. Rob has done an outstanding job for [...]

MoBiTec, Germany, Announces Availability of Human Herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) Assay Kits

Goettingen, Germany -- ELISA-VIDITEST and IF-VIDITEST anti-HHV-6 kits are intended for serological diagnosis of diseases associated with HHV–6 infection, such as exanthema subitum, acute respiratory illnesses, diarrhoea with fever and febrile seizures in infants, heterophile antibody-negative infectious mononucleosis in children, also interstitial pneumonia, encephalitis, meningitis, hepatitis, and aplastic anemia in immunodeficient patients. The presence of [...]

Agilent Technologies Signs Co-Marketing Agreement with MRM Proteomics to Advance Quantitative Proteomics Solutions

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has extended a co-marketing agreement with MRM Proteomics Inc., a leading provider of advanced protein quantitation, biomarker and proteomic services. The agreement expands on an existing collaboration established in 2012 and will allow both organizations to bolster their combined proteomics solutions, comprising reagent [...]

New Phenomenex GC Column Set for Chlorinated Pesticides Runs Seven EPA Methods

Torrance, CA -- Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces Zebron™ ZB-CLPesticides-1 and 2 for dual-column pesticide testing by GC/ECD (electron capture detection). This column set saves time and money for chlorinated pesticide testing commonly performed by environmental and drinking water testing labs, which [...]

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