September 30, 2013
Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, announced today that the company has been awarded supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Building on the success of their current Phase II SBIR program, the additional funding will help to accelerate the transition of Daylight Solution’s mid-infrared [...]
September 30, 2013
Ann Arbor, MI – Rubicon Genomics, Inc., a leader in the development and commercialization of innovative sample-specific nucleic acid library preparation products used in research and clinical testing, today reported that its ThruPLEXTM-FD Prep Kits contributed to the success of a breakthrough study recently published in Nature1 that showed that genomic data extracted from the [...]
September 27, 2013
ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and High Technology company (the "Company" or "Sigma-Aldrich"), announces a quarterly cash dividend of $0.215 per common share. The dividend was approved by the Company's Board of Directors on September 15, 2013 and is payable on December 13, 2013 to shareholders of record at [...]
September 27, 2013
Chalfont St Giles, UK –– GE Healthcare (GEHC), a unit of GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it has won a tender to exclusively provide next generation sequencing services to a research group at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The sequencing services will be provided by a subsidiary of GE Healthcare, SeqWright Genomic Services, a Houston, [...]
PTFE Components for Lab Reactor Systems
September 27, 2013
Asynt has announced a new range of PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) components, including lids, stirrers, stirrer guides, temperature probe holders and clamps for its own and other brands of controlled lab reactors. PTFE offers many unique properties that make it the ultimate high performance material for the construction of laboratory apparatus and equipment. Asynt PTFE reactor components [...]
September 27, 2013
Torrance, CA – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces a new 30 mm I.D. (internal diameter) Kinetex core-shell 5-micron column in Axia™ hardware for preparative HPLC and SFC in pharmaceutical lab-scale purification. Also offered in a 21.2 mm I.D., the new 30 mm [...]
September 27, 2013
TOKYO & NEW YORK -- Panasonic Corporation ("Panasonic") and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, "KKR") today announced the signing of a share purchase agreement and a shareholders' agreement under which Panasonic and KKR will become joint partners of Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. ("Panasonic Healthcare"). Based on today's agreements, PHC Holdings [...]
Biotage AB Nomination Committee
September 26, 2013
A Nomination Committee consisting of shareholder representatives and the Chairman of the Board of Directors has been formed for Biotage AB. The Nomination Committee shall, before the Annual General Meeting 2014, prepare proposals for the election of Chairman and other members of the Board of Directors, the election of Chairman of the Annual General Meeting, [...]
Licensing agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific and Acquisition of Thomas Cain Inc
September 26, 2013
Porvair plc ("Porvair"), the specialist filtration and environmental technology group today, today announces two agreements to advance its interests in the life science and environmental laboratory markets. A technology licensing agreement has been struck with Thermo Electron Manufacturing Ltd, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific ("Thermo"), a global leader in scientific and laboratory supplies. Under [...]
Sandia Biotech, Inc. and Sigma-Aldrich Enter into Global Distribution and Marketing Agreement
September 26, 2013
Albuquerque, NM -- Sandia Biotech, Inc., an Albuquerque, NM based, privately held biotech development and manufacturing company has signed a co-exclusive, global distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich for its Split Fluorescent Protein (sFP) product line, which is based on technology licensed from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Sandia Biotech will continue to manufacture its novel Split [...]
