Ocean Optics Launches QE Pro Spectrometer
February 3, 2014
Dunedin, Florida, USA – The QE Pro from Ocean Optics is a high-sensitivity, back-thinned CCD array spectrometer with outstanding quantum efficiency, wide dynamic range and extremely low noise operation for applications with low light levels and where wide concentration ranges are measured. The QE Pro‘s optical design maximizes performance for a range of application needs. [...]
Rigaku Launch New X-Ray Microscope at ACMM23/ICONN2014
February 3, 2014
Sydney, Australia – Rigaku and AXT are pleased to announce the simultaneous release of the nano3DX x-ray microscope in Australia and America. In Australia this new product was launched at ACMM23/ICONN2014 (the 23rd Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis and the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) which is currently being held in Adelaide. The [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation
February 3, 2014
WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) for $76.13 ($76.1311786) in cash per fully diluted common share, or approximately $13.6 billion, plus the assumption of $1.5 billion in net debt. The completion of the transaction follows [...]
Refurbished Lab Equipment Sale Announced by Organomation
February 1, 2014
From: Tanya Samazan [mailto:tsamazan@strategic-directions.com] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 3:02 PM To: Gina Ragus Subject: For IBO under Lab PRod and Sample Prep Berlin, MA-- Organomation announces a sale on a wide variety of newly refurbished laboratory evaporators and extractors in the company's official online store. The evaporator manufacturer fully stands behind the quality of [...]
January 31, 2014
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher), a leading manufacturer of products used in scientific research, has agreed to sell assets to GE Healthcare to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its proposed $13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation (Life) would likely substantially lessen competition. The FTC complaint challenging the transaction alleges that the deal, [...]
PathoGenetix Signs Sparton to Manufacture Bacterial Identification System
January 31, 2014
WOBURN, Mass. – PathoGenetix, Inc., developer of an automated system for rapid bacterial strain typing, announced today that it has signed Sparton Corporation as the design and manufacturing partner for the RESOLUTION™ Microbial Genotyping System. Under the terms of the agreement, Sparton will conduct design for manufacture and pilot production of a limited number of [...]
Ready-to-UseLentivirus for miRNA Expression and Inhibition
January 31, 2014
AMSBIO has introduced a range of ready-to-use human and mouse lentivirus products for miRNA and anti-miRNA expression (miRNA inhibition). Lentiviral expression vectors are the most effective vehicles for delivering genetic material to almost any mammalian cell—including non-dividing cells and whole model organisms. miRNAs are endogenous non-coding RNAs that are highly conserved in mammals and that [...]
Synthesis & Evaporation In Pear Shaped Flasks
January 31, 2014
Asynt has developed a version of DrySyn heating block purpose designed to allow scientists to perform safe, productive heating and stirring experiments with pear shaped flasks commonly used with rotary evaporators. Pear shaped flasks are popular with organic chemists as concentrated samples can be removed much more easily than from a round bottom flask. Pear-shaped [...]
Commission approves General Electric as purchaser of Thermo Fisher’s divestment businesses
January 31, 2014
Brussels,The European Commission has approved today General Electric as the purchaser of Thermo Fisher's divestments businesses producing and supplying (i) media and sera for cell culture, (ii) gene silencing products, and (iii) polymer-based magnetic beads. Thermo Fisher had committed to divest these three businesses as a condition for the Commission to allow the acquisition of [...]
TECHNE ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH FISHER SCIENTIFIC
January 31, 2014
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced a three year agreement to distribute Techne's R&D Systems, Tocris, and Boston Biochem brand catalog products through the Fisher Scientific customer channel in the United States and Canada. Fisher Scientific, the premier customer channel brand within Thermo Fisher Scientific, has a leading position in the life [...]
