Danaher Corporation Announces Sale of Stock by Steven M. Rales
October 24, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C., - Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) today announced Steven M. Rales, Chairman of the Board, agreed to sell 15 million shares of Danaher common stock that he owns pursuant to Rule 144. Mr. Rales is selling these shares in connection with his personal financial and estate planning. Following the sale, he will continue to own [...]
Open data partnership leads to release of data from Nobel Prize-winning laboratory for public use
October 24, 2012
Over the last decade an ENU mutagenesis program was operated by the Beutler laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. The laboratory has recently moved to UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, where this work has continued. The aim of this program was to create random, inheritable, mutations and link these [...]
Grabner Instruments Marks 25 Years of Leadership in Petroleum Testing
October 24, 2012
Over the years, AMETEK Grabner Instruments has become universally recognized as the worldwide expert in petroleum testing. And, since 1993, the MINIVAP tester has served as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s reference instrument for highest-precision vapor pressure measurement. 2012 also looks back at the beginning of impressive achievements in petroleum testing, aimed at making fuel [...]
October 24, 2012
MADISON, WIS., Oct. 24, 2012 – The National Institutes of Health Center for Regenerative Medicine (NIH-CRM) has awarded Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CDI), the world’s largest commercial producer of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines and tissue cells, a contract to provide human iPS cell lines and terminally differentiated tissue cells from normal or [...]
October 24, 2012
WOBURN, Mass., -- Covaris Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Life Technologies Corporation enabling Life Technologies to offer the Covaris M220 Focused-ultrasonicator system to users of Ion Torrent Next-Generation Sequencing platforms. Compact, cost effective, easy-to-use, and quiet; the M220 Focused-ultrasonicator is the ideal fragmenting system for PGM™ and Proton™ users. The M220 [...]
October 23, 2012
Oxford Instruments Industrial Analysis has developed and customised the new AffirmoEX Electron Magnetic Resonance (EPR / ESR) compact benchtop spectrometer, regenerating the teaching of EMR in higher education. Electron Magnetic Resonance (EMR) (also known as Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) or Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)) is a valuable but often neglected technique. It is the only [...]
Accelrys Acquires Aegis Analytical Corp. for $30 million in Cash
October 23, 2012
SAN DIEGO, -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced that it has acquired Aegis Analytical Corp. (Aegis) for $30 million in cash, expanding Accelrys' portfolio with enterprise manufacturing process intelligence capabilities that provide organizations with unmatched insights into their product lifecycle processes. The addition of Aegis' [...]
Nanoink Raises Profile In Asia-Pacific Region With New Distributors In Taiwan
October 23, 2012
CHICAGO, Ill. –– The NanoFabrication Systems Division of NanoInk is pleased to announce E-Hong Instruments Co., Ltd. will serve as its distributor in Taiwan for its desktop nanofabrication equipment including the NLP 2000 System, the DPN 5000 System, and MEMsfabricated consumables. NanoInk’s NanoFabrication Systems Division brings sophisticated nanofabrication to the laboratory in an easy-to-use and [...]
Techne Corporation Releases Unaudited First Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results
October 23, 2012
Minneapolis -- Techne Corporation's (NASDAQ:TECH) financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 include the following highlights: - First quarter earnings were $25.7 million or $.70 per diluted share. Adjusted earnings for the quarter were $27.5 million (a decrease of 8.2% from the prior fiscal year period) or $.75 per diluted share. Earnings and [...]
October 23, 2012
Q3 2012 Results (all percentages are to comparable periods in 2011) Q3 2012 reported sales increased 2% to $639 million. Sales grew organically by 2% with Research and Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals ("SAFC") organic sales growth of 1% and 5%, respectively. Acquisitions contributed 6% to sales growth. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates reduced otherwise reportable [...]
