WALTHAM, Mass.-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 30, 2013. First Quarter 2013 Highlights Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) grew 17% to a record $1.37 Revenue increased 4% to a first quarter record of $3.19 billion Adjusted operating [...]

Lexington, MA, – T2 Biosystems, a company developing direct detection products enabling superior diagnostics, today announced the publication of research supporting the Company’s flagship diagnostic test, T2Candida® , in Science Translational Medicine. The research highlights T2Candida as a breakthrough approach to rapid and sensitive identification of species-specific Candida, a sepsis-causing fungus, directly from whole blood [...]

Millersburg, PA –– ASI, manufacturer of single-use systems and technologies and Chromatan a single-use chromatography solutions provider, announced today an exclusive agreement between the two companies to combine development, sales, marketing and manufacturing efforts to bring CCTC - a continuous, single-use and column-free purification technology to market. This agreement leverages the strengths of ASI’s single-use [...]

STUTTGART, Germany –– At the international technology trade fair for wine, fruit, fruit juice and spirits, INTERVITIS INTERFRUCTA 2013, Bruker today announced the second release of its successful NMR WineScreenerTM. With this new release more than 110 parameters can be evaluated under push button automation, with targeted analysis of more than 50 quantification parameters, and [...]

Milford, Mass. – Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) is now shipping UNIFI® Scientific Information System, release version 1.6, for the Waters® Biopharmaceutical Platform Solution, Regulated Bioanalysis Platform Solution, Screening Platform Solution, Pesticide Screening Application Solution and Metabolite Identification Application Solution. UNIFI 1.6 features improved software performance, default and customizable workflows capabilities, and multi-user server-based connectivity. “With [...]

Hillsboro, Ore.— FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) today announced that it has reached a milestone of more than 200 automated mineralogy systems installed worldwide. FEI’s Mineral Liberation Analysis (MLA) and QEMSCAN® automated mineralogy systems are used by scientists and engineers in the mining and oil & gas industries to understand the detailed mineralogy of the materials they [...]

ALAMEDA, Calif.-- LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX), announced today a collaborative partnership and value-added reseller agreement with Appistry, Inc., which provides big-data computing that supports life-science and medical analytics at hospitals and medical research centers and organizations. The intent of the partnership is to integrate LifeMap’s GeneCards® and MalaCards databases [...]

Reorganisation of Roche Applied Science – part of Roche’s Diagnostics Division – designed to enhance responsiveness to scientific and market needs and technology flow from research use to the clinical setting. Changes expected to affect approximately 110 positions in Penzberg (Germany) and 60 positions in Branford (Connecticut, USA). Roche remains committed to life-science business. Roche [...]

AMSBIO has announced further expansion of its tissue biorepository and collection services** to now include blood products from human donors with auto-immune and neurological conditions. Whole blood, plasma, serum, PBMCs and cerebrospinal fluid samples are available from a wide variety of donors. In addition AMSBIO is now able to offer collection services of patient samples [...]

MINNEAPOLIS,– Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today a definitive agreement to acquire RAE Systems, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of fixed and portable gas and radiation detections systems, and software for $340 million. The purchase price translates to approximately thirteen times RAE Systems’ estimated 2013 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), or approximately six [...]