June 4, 2013
Salisbury, UK,: NanoSight announces that Particle Technology Labs, PTL, has established cGMP compliance for Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, and this is now available on a contract basis to the pharmaceutical industry. PTL is the leading particle characterization research and advisory company in the United States, providing assistance to a wide range of industries. Nanoparticle Tracking [...]
Donald F. Shaw Elected To Kewaunee Scientific Board Of Directors
June 3, 2013
STATESVILLE, NC, -- Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (NASDAQ: KEQU) announced today the election of Donald F. Shaw to Kewaunee Scientific’s Board of Directors, effective June 1, 2013. Mr. Shaw, a resident of Tempe, Arizona, served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of ISEC, Inc. from 2004 until his retirement in March 2013. [...]
Horizon Discovery Announces £6.9 Million ($10.5 Million) Series C Continuation Fundraising
June 3, 2013
Cambridge, UK, :Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced the final closing of its Series C funding round. The latest £6.9m ($10.5m) placement for ordinary shares brings to a close a cumulative total for the round of £18.2m ($29.1m) and will enable Horizon to [...]
June 3, 2013
Scientists from Peking University, China and OriGene Technologies jointly published that multiple lineage specifier genes can replace OCT4 and SOX2, the core regulators of cell pluripotency. The authors further proposed a “seesaw model” to illustrate the complex process of the pluripotency state and lineage specification. The results were published in the May 23rd issue of [...]
June 3, 2013
Omaha, Neb. and Houston, Tex. - Transgenomic, Inc. (OTCBB: TBIO) and ApoCell, Inc. today announced the results of a research collaboration with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center that coupled ApoCell’s ApoStream™ platform for isolating circulating tumor cells (CTCs) with Transgenomic’s ICE COLD-PCR technology to detect signature mutations in CTCs isolated from the [...]
June 3, 2013
Gaithersburg, Md.—— OpGen, Inc., today announced the company has entered into a strategic collaboration with Applied Maths NV, the market leader in bioinformatics and analytical solutions for public health and research laboratories, to provide advanced software tools for microbial genomics and molecular strain typing. Under the agreement, Applied Maths has incorporated a Whole Genome Mapping [...]
June 3, 2013
Prague, Czech Republic, - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced it has provided access to Reaxys, an online workflow solution for research chemists, for five Czech universities: the University of Pardubice, the Masaryk University, the Palacky University in Olomouc, the Tomas Bata University in Zlín and [...]
VWR Funding, Inc. Announces Proposed Repricing Of Senior Secured Term Loans Due 2017
June 3, 2013
RADNOR, PA, - VWR Funding, Inc. (the "Company"), the parent company of VWR International, LLC, a global provider of laboratory supplies, equipment and services, announced today that it intends to seek a repricing of its $242 million U.S. dollar extended term loan and its €476 million Euro extended term loan, in each case, maturing in [...]
MTS Celebrates 40 Years of European Success and Announces Opening of New Stuttgart Office
June 3, 2013
Eden Prairie, Minn. –– MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high performance test systems and position sensors, proudly recognized the 40th anniversary of its business in Germany with a celebration event held on 23 May 2013 at the MTS European Headquarters in Berlin. In addition to customers and MTS employees, both [...]
CSC Offering Praxis Moisture Balance For Controlled Environments
June 3, 2013
Fairfax, VA -- Since the 1940’s CSC Scientific has produced moisture analyzers that operated on the Loss-On-Drying principle. These initial analyzers, known as the CENCO Moisture Balances, gained a reputation as the toughest, most durable Loss-On Drying moisture analyzer in the World. The CENCOS were nearly indestructible and could work in any environment. With the [...]
