ProteinSimple Appoints Joe Keegan and Chris van Ingen to its Board of Directors
March 24, 2014
Santa Clara, CA - ProteinSimple announced today the appointments of two independent members of the company's Board of Directors, Mr. Chris van Ingen and Dr. Joe Keegan. "Chris and Joe are two of the most respected leaders in the life science tool industry," commented Tim Harkness, CEO of ProteinSimple. "They bring tremendous depth of experience [...]
Dr. Claire Pomeroy Elected as BD Director
March 24, 2014
Franklin Lakes, N.J. -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced the election of Dr. Claire Pomeroy to its Board of Directors. Dr. Pomeroy, 58, is an expert in infectious diseases and a long-time advocate for public health and patients, especially those with HIV/AIDS. She is currently President of [...]
GE completes acquisition of strategic assets from Thermo Fisher Scientific
March 24, 2014
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK -- GE (NYSE:GE) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Thermo Fisher's HyClone™ cell culture media and sera, and gene modulation and magnetic beads businesses. The acquisition allows GE to expand its offering of tools, technologies and services for the discovery and manufacture of innovative new medicines, vaccines and [...]
March 24, 2014
Hamburg – The nano-experts from the Center for Applied Nanotechnology (CAN) GmbH expand their product portfolio by CANdots® Series G - His Detect, which is a ready-to-use reagent for the detection of poly-histidine tagged proteins in Blot assays. It is easy to handle, highly sensitive as well as time saving compared to standard methods available [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Sale of Certain Biosciences Businesses to GE Healthcare
March 24, 2014
WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has completed the sale of its cell culture (sera and media), gene modulation and magnetic beads businesses to GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), for $1.065 billion. The businesses will become part of GE [...]
Polysciences, Inc. Appoints New Product Manager for Life Sciences Division
March 24, 2014
Warrington, PA - Polysciences, Inc., an award-winning company specializing in the development and manufacture of high purity chemicals and reagents for laboratory research, announced the appointment of Kimberly Glover as new Product Manager of its Life Sciences Division. In this role, Ms. Glover will assume responsibility of Polysciences’ Life Sciences product lines, including; histology, light [...]
March 24, 2014
Chelmsford, MA -- Spectro Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of analytical tools and software for industrial fluids analysis, has strengthened its senior management team with the addition of Mark Spillane as Vice President of Operations and Bob Wopperer as Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Spillane most recently served as Director of Manufacturing at [...]
March 24, 2014
Hamburg -- Eppendorf has launched the latest offering in its range of molecular biology instruments. The new Mastercycler nexus X2 is ideal for researchers looking to carry out two runs of PCR simultaneously, without any compromise on the number of samples. The instrument comprises of two asymmetric blocks, consisting of 64 and 32 wells, which [...]
Bioo Scientific Launches Strip Test to Simplify Testing for Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus
March 22, 2014
Austin, TX -- Bioo Scientific is releasing the NovareDx™ EHDV Strip Test Kit, the first commercial strip test for the detection of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus (EHDV), an orbivirus that infects most wild and domestic ruminants. EHD is endemic in many countries, particularly affecting white-tailed deer in North America. The NovareDx EHDV Strip Test Kit [...]
March 22, 2014
Columbia, Maryland -- In Vitro ADMET Laboratories, LLC (IVAL) and Taconic announced an agreement today under which IVAL will prepare cryopreserved hepatocytes derived from Taconic’s knockout and genetically humanized mouse models for use in preclinical drug development research. The resulting plateable cryopreserved hepatocytes will be a commercial product available from either company. Using hepatocytes from [...]
