WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue and GE have entered into a university-industry partnership that exemplifies a new approach to expediting the academia-based technology commercialization process. The agreement, signed this month, will merge the expertise of GE's corporate technology commercialization group with innovations being developed at Purdue to commercialize new technologies. "GE already benefits from a [...]

Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation announced worldwide release of the EA1000AIII for controlling hazardous substances regulated by European Union directives such as WEEE and RoHS. The EA1000AIII is the latest generation instrument with higher performance and convenience, and affordable price. Together with the EA1000VX released last September 2013, the EA1000AIII will meet the users’ demand for [...]

BOULDER, CO - InDevR Inc., a Boulder-based biotechnology company announces a new product portfolio, miPLEX™, that enables businesses to upgrade traditional immunoassays to a time- and cost-saving multiplexed platform. The miPLEX product line is a unique combination of service, consumables, and instrumentation. InDevR's scientists work with target-specific reagents provided by partner companies to translate single-well [...]

LANCASTER, Calif. -- Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of consulting services and software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE:WX), China’s largest contract research organization (CRO), has obtained a multiyear license to ADMET Predictor™, Simulations Plus’ flagship structure-to-property prediction software. John DiBella, vice president of marketing and sales [...]

WALTHAM, Mass. – Excelitas Technologies, a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized optoelectronics to OEMs seeking high-performance technology solutions, announced that it has acquired Lumen Dynamics, a privately-held innovation leader and volume manufacturer of lamp and LED-based UV curing and fluorescence illumination systems. “Lumen Dynamics’ technology and innovative product portfolio complement Excelitas’ existing [...]

CHALFONT ST GILES, UK – GE Healthcare Life Sciences today launched Xuri™, a new technology family designed specifically to support and advance the field of cell therapy. The new technology family, in which the first product is the Xuri Cell Expansion System W25 for the manufacture of cellular immunotherapies in a clinical setting, will combine [...]

Männedorf, Switzerland – Genia Geo, based in Montevideo, Uruguay, has chosen Tecan’s HID EVOlution™ system as part of its comprehensive forensic identification services for governments around the world. This one-stop solution encompasses everything from designing and building laboratories to training crime scene investigators and judges, and revolves around Tecan and Life Technologies’ fully validated, walkaway [...]

PITTSBURGH — Emerson Process Management, a global business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), has been awarded a $21 million contract to modernize control and monitoring systems and electrical systems on Unit 2 of the Belchatów power plant in Poland. Owned by PGE Górnictwo I Energetyka Konwencjonalna SA, the 13-unit, 5,354-megawatt Belchatów plant produces nearly 20 percent [...]

New York -- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), Thomas Jefferson University (Jefferson) and Taconic have collaborated to create, validate and distribute a valuable pre-clinical research tool: a genetically engineered rat with fluorescent dopamine-producing neurons - neurons that are affected in Parkinson's disease. This unique nonprofit, academic and industry partnership provides easy [...]

SHEFFIELD, UK: Phase Focus Ltd (Phasefocus), the company that is revolutionising microscopy and imaging with the lens-free Phasefocus Virtual Lens® technology, today announced the changes to its board of directors: • Paul Atherton and Charles Holroyd appointed as Chairman and Non-Executive Director • Martin Humphry appointed director and Chief Technology Officer Phase Focus Ltd (Phasefocus), [...]