Vive la Résolution! Leica Microsystems Celebrates 10 Years of Super-Resolution Innovations

Mannheim / Wetzlar, Germany. The introduction of the Leica TCS SP8 STED 3X in 2014 marks Leica Microsystems’ 10th anniversary of leading innovations in super-resolution technology. “Leica Microsystems was by far the first company to take the breakthrough of the diffraction limit in light microscopy and implement this in products,” says Professor Stefan W. Hell, [...]

JetBlue Airways Selects Morpho’s MobileTrace for Enhanced Passenger Screening

WILMINGTON, MA - Morpho (Safran), through its subsidiary Morpho Detection, today announced a contract with JetBlue Airways for 14 handheld MobileTrace® explosive trace detectors (ETD). Under terms of the contract, MobileTrace will be deployed this year to meet enhanced U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) passenger screening mandates for U.S.-bound flights from select JetBlue global locations. [...]

Eppendorf: Sales stable in 2013

Hamburg -- In fiscal year 2013, the Eppendorf Group achieved sales of €502.7 million (prior year: €520.2 million). When adjusted for currency effects, sales were only slightly lower than in the previous year (-0.4%). Income from operations (EBIT) decreased to €93.8 million (prior year: €101.5 million), and 2013 net income declined to €67.5 million (prior [...]

Servomex Appoints Area Sales Manager to Head New Russian Office

Crowborough, UK – - Servomex Group Ltd. has announced the appointment of Chingis Lalaev as Area Sales Manager - Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to head its newly established office in Moscow. Servomex’s General Manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Luca Marinelli, said: "Russia has become a significant marketplace for Servomex [...]

Cepheid Announces European Release of Xpert Norovirus, the First On-Demand Molecular

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) today announced the release of Xpert® Norovirus, a qualitative in vitro diagnostic test for rapid identification and differentiation of Noroviruses genogroup I (GI) and genogroup II (GII), to be marketed as a CE IVD product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The test runs on [...]

Accelrys(R) Speeds Life Science Decisions with Next-Generation Insight(R)

SAN DIEGO -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software and solutions, today announced the latest releases of Accelrys Insight and Accelrys Insight for Excel. The new release of Accelrys Insight for Excel enhances scientific data analysis with important new capabilities including the ability to run database searches directly [...]

QIAGEN adds promising new biomarker to pipeline of Personalized Healthcare assays to improve diagnosis of blood disorders

HILDEN, Germany, and VIENNA, Austria — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced it has acquired an exclusive worldwide license to the biomarker calreticulin (CALR), whose recently discovered mutations are found in an estimated 15% of cases of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), a group of blood disorders. QIAGEN licensed the technology from CeMM [...]

Bio-Rad Acquires GnuBIO, Developer of Droplet-Based DNA Sequencing Technology

CAMBRIDGE, MA –– GnuBIO, a privately-held life sciences company that has developed a droplet-based DNA sequencing technology, today announced that it was acquired by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. With this acquisition, Bio-Rad will expand its Digital Biology Center and establish a research and development site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GnuBIO has developed a DNA sequencing solution that [...]

Servomex Appoints Area Sales Manager to Head New Russian Office

Crowborough, UK – - Servomex Group Ltd. has announced the appointment of Chingis Lalaev as Area Sales Manager - Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to head its newly established office in Moscow. Servomex’s General Manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Luca Marinelli, said: "Russia has become a significant marketplace for Servomex [...]

Covaris, Inc. Opens New Office in Europe

BRIGHTON, England -- Covaris, Inc., an innovator in the life science tools and the clinical diagnostic market spaces, announced today that its European subsidiary, Covaris Ltd, which is located in the United Kingdom, will commence operations on May 1, 2014. Covaris Ltd has sales, service, and application representatives throughout Europe providing a high level of [...]

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