CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ: VIVO) today: *reported record fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2013 net sales of $49.0 million and $188.7 million, respectively, increases of 13% and 9%, respectively, from the same periods of the prior fiscal year; *reported record fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2013 operating income of $13.3 million [...]

TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- Pharmaceutical manufacturers and regulatory agencies around the world can use a new, cost-effective handheld Raman analyzer to quickly identify raw materials and confirm the authenticity of finished products. The Thermo Scientific TruScan GP offers pharmaceutical identification capabilities for pharmaceutical manufacturers in emerging markets. “Our objective is to provide reliable chemical identification to [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management solutions, has announced the latest release of its unified biology assay and study management software suite consisting of Accelrys BioRails DM 4.5, Accelrys BioRails PTO 4.5 and Accelrys Morphit 3.0. The Accelrys BioRails assay data management and project tracking/optimization applications [...]

Hamilton Storage Technologies has been named the Southeast Gold winner of the MassEcon Team Massachusetts Economic Impact Award, which celebrates companies that have made an outstanding contribution to the Massachusetts economy. MassEcon selected winners based on job growth, facility expansion, and investment since January 1, 2012, as well as other criteria including community involvement. Finalists [...]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Safer and more effective anticancer drugs may soon be developed thanks to a Small Business Innovation Research contract recently awarded to HemoShear by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). HemoShear, LLC, is the pharmaceutical industry's leading developer of the most advanced human biology systems for [...]

Harvard Apparatus has recently teamed up with FISO Technologies, Inc to introduce a new option for life science researchers with their fiber optic pressure sensing systems: FISO-LS. FISO Technologies, Inc. has long been known for their clinical and industrial lines of fiber optic pressure sensors and has perfected the miniaturization of their clinical catheter line, [...]

LONDON, UK -- Leading sample management software provider, Titian Software, is pleased to announce that it is a founding sponsor of ELRIGfr for the French speaking community, a new division of the special interest group for laboratory automation and robotics. ELRIG has had great success across Europe, particularly the UK, building a strong scientific network [...]

Recently, Micromeritics Instrument Corporation completed the acquisition of PoroTechnology, a Texas-based company located in the greater Houston area providing Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure (MICP) rock property data to the U.S. and international oil and gas industry. PoroTechnology will operate as a business unit of Micromeritics and utilize the analytical assets of Micromeritics Analytical Services (MAS). [...]

Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, announces blueDrive photothermal excitation, an option available exclusively for Asylum’s Cypher™ Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs). blueDrive makes tapping mode imaging remarkably simple, incredibly stable, and strikingly accurate. blueDrive replaces the conventional piezoacoustic excitation mechanism, instead using a blue laser to directly excite the AFM cantilever photothermally. This results in [...]

ChemEssen has released MOLinstincts, a database that contains property data and molecular information of chemical compounds for industrial applications. This tool will prove useful for many science and engineering professionals, and has undergone more than three years of a quality assurance and accuracy verification process to ensure that it is meeting the highest standard of [...]