Disclosure according to Art. 4 Para. 2 of the Regulation (EC) No. 2273/2003
December 17, 2013
The share repurchase program, announced by QIAGEN N.V. in an ad hoc announcement dated July 30, 2013, will continue on December 18, 2013. In the time period until March 14, 2014, a third tranche of common shares of the Company having a total purchase price of up to the EUR equivalent amount of USD 45 [...]
Rapid Pathogen Identification System Evaluated for Food Industry Testing
December 17, 2013
Woburn, MA and Marshfield, WI. PathoGenetix, Inc., a developer of an automated system for bacterial strain typing, and Marshfield Food Safety, LLC, a full service microbiology and chemistry contract testing laboratory, have signed an agreement to evaluate PathoGenetix’s RESOLUTION™ Microbial Genotyping System. Under the agreement, Marshfield will conduct independent testing of the RESOLUTION instrument, assays [...]
384-well 3D Cell Culture Plate Previews at SLAS 2014
December 17, 2013
AMSBIO, specialists in 3D cell culture technology, has announced the launch of a 384-well version of the popular Alvetex®Scaffold cell culture plates. The new Alvetex®Scaffold 3D cell culture plates provide biopharmaceutical companies with a new tool to improve the predictive accuracy, productivity and biological relevance of their cell based high throughput testing. The new 384-well [...]
Curie-Cancer And Strand Scientific Intelligence, Inc. Launch Curie Image Database
December 17, 2013
Curie-Cancer, the body responsible for developing Institut Curie's industry partnership activity, and Strand Scientific Intelligence, Inc. (Strand) announce the launch of the Curie Image Database (CID), a breakthrough image analysis and management platform that they developed jointly over the last two years at the Cell and Tissue Imaging Core Facility of the Institut Curie (PICT-IBiSA). [...]
December 17, 2013
WILMINGTON, Mass. Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB:IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, announced today it has sold over $600,000 worth of its QS-B220 and QS-H150 explosives trace detectors (ETDs) to customers across five different continents. The handheld and desktop ETDs, which offer the benefit of not using [...]
December 17, 2013
Moscow, Russia - As more clinicians and researchers come to rely upon genetic data in their quest to combat thousands of devastating human diseases and conditions, accurate and speedy analysis of that constantly expanding body of data becomes increasingly critical. Addressing this need, Moscow startup iBinom has released the beta version of a cloud-based SaaS [...]
December 17, 2013
Dolomite is collaborating with European technology leaders over a two year publicly funded consortium. Danish project partners OptoRobotix (R&D performing SME) and Bioneer (technological service partner) and Dolomite will jointly develop a cutting edge stem cell handling technology. As the market leader in microfluidic design, Dolomite will exploit its latest offerings to transform from concept [...]
Agilent Technologies Introduces Two New ScreenTape Assays to Optimize Next-Generation Sequencing
December 17, 2013
SANTA CLARA, Calif.Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced two new assays for the 2200 TapeStation system: the RNA ScreenTape and the D1000 ScreenTape assays. Both assays are essential for the quality control of samples in next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow. They replace Agilent's R6K and D1K ScreenTape assays. The new RNA ScreenTape assay delivers qualitative [...]
EMD Millipore Provides Disaster Relief to Typhoon Haiyan Victims
December 17, 2013
BILLERICA, Mass. -- EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, today announced it is providing product and monetary donations to assist those severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines as part of its corporate responsibility commitment to support natural disaster relief efforts. In partnership with Water Missions International, EMD [...]
Bio-Rad Offers New PrimePCR™ Disease Panels for Real-Time PCR
December 17, 2013
Hercules, CA —— Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. today announced the launch of more than 700 new PrimePCR human and mouse disease panels and 71 new pathway panels for real-time PCR (qPCR). The panels allow researchers to thoroughly and efficiently investigate genes known to be differentially expressed in a specified pathology or biological pathway. Bio-Rad now offers [...]

