Teledyne Announces Executive Promotions
June 13, 2013
Al Pichelli, Teledyne’s current president & chief operating officer of Teledyne’s instrumentation and aerospace and defense electronics segments, will become an executive vice president of Teledyne. Pichelli, age 61, joined Teledyne in 1980, and has held numerous general management roles of increasing responsibility over the past 33 years. Pichelli will continue to be responsible for [...]
Workflow-orientated incubation for live cell imaging
June 13, 2013
Hamburg,– Designed with the complete workflow in mind, Olympus has launched its cellVivo incubation system, for precise and ergonomic environmental control of advanced live cell imaging. Following the modular approach of the IX3 range of inverted microscope frames cellVivo is based on a “one size fits all” concept, with adaptors for various IX73 and IX83 [...]
Pathogenica and Targeted Genomics Introduce HAI Sequencing Technology to Australia and New Zealand
June 13, 2013
Pathogenica, Inc. announced it had signed a partnership with Targeted Genomics, based in Canberra, Australia, to market and distribute Pathogenica's HAI (Hospital Acquired Infection) BioDetection Kit on an exclusive basis to the Australian and New Zealand markets. The Pathogenica kit is the first DNA sequencing analysis product that enables identification of infectious diseases with sequence-specific [...]
June 13, 2013
GENEVA & SAN CARLOS, Calif.-- Unilabs, a leading diagnostics company in Europe, and Natera, a leading innovator in prenatal genetic testing, announced today that Unilabs will distribute Natera’s non-invasive prenatal screening test, Panorama™, across its wide network in Switzerland and Scandinavia. Panorama was launched in March 2013 for the detection of trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), [...]
Peel Away the Confusion of Adhesive Measurement
June 13, 2013
Middleboro, MA – Brookfield Engineering offers the new 90° Peel Fixture for use with the CT3 Tester, designed to measure the adhesion force between two materials. The fixture maintains a 90° angle as the tape is pulled away from the substrate. The CT3 Tester measures the adhesive force to separate the tape. Typical applications include [...]
June 13, 2013
TTP Labtech, global developer and manufacturer of innovative, high quality, automated laboratory equipment, has signed an agreement with Dart NeuroScience, LLC (DNS), a specialised pharmaceutical company, to supply its modular compound storage and retrieval systems, comPOUND® and comPILER®. The platform will enable the safe, long-term storage of the newly formed and rapidly expanding DNS small [...]
June 13, 2013
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Perfinity Biosciences Inc. announces the signing of an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, to co-market an automated protein sample preparation and analysis system. This solution combines Perfinity's automated sample preparation platform with Thermo Fisher Scientific's liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry instrumentation. There are applications [...]
June 13, 2013
The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that although isolated, natural gene sequences are unpatentable, cDNA (referred to as synthetic DNA) is officially considered patentable subject material. The ruling was issued after the court reviewed patents owned by Myriad Genetics Inc. in the high-profile case, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics. The patents claimed [...]
Harris & Harris Group Notes Carl Zeiss’ Planned Acquisition of Xradia
June 13, 2013
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TINY), an early-stage, active investor in transformative companies, notes today's announcement by Carl Zeiss AG of its planned acquisition of Xradia, Inc. After the closing of the transaction, Xradia will operate under the new name of Carl Zeiss X-ray Microscopy, Inc. The closing of the transaction is subject to [...]
ZEISS to acquire Xradia to complement its microscopy business
June 13, 2013
ZEISS, the international leader in the fields of optics and optoelectronics today announced the planned acquisition of the US-based Xradia, Inc. Xradia is an medium-size company providing innovative 3D X-ray microscopes for industrial and academic research applications. The closing of the transaction is subject to the fulfillment of customary closing conditions including a required filing [...]
