Phenomenex Employees to Make 150,000 Meals for Starving Children
October 25, 2012
TORRANCE, Calif -- On the 16th and 17th of November, over 700 Phenomenex employees, friends, family and community members will set forth to hand pack 150,000 meals to feed thousands of starving children in the developing world. Through a partnership with Minnesota-based Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), Phenomenex volunteers will prepare these life-saving meals at [...]
Comprehensive range of ready-to-use RNAs
October 24, 2012
With more than 20 years of experience in RNA isolation, AMSBIO has generated over 4000 individual total RNAs ready to go off-the-shelf, many with bioanalyser RIN scores to demonstrate their high quality. Isolated from a variety of tissues - the AMSBIO biorepository of RNA samples covers over 30 species including human, animal, plant, insect and [...]
Corning Announces Third-Quarter Results
October 24, 2012
CORNING, N.Y., – Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced its results for the third quarter of 2012. Third-Quarter Summary Sales were $2.04 billion, up 7% from quarter two and down 2% year over year. Earnings per share were $0.35. Excluding special items, earnings per share were $0.34,* up 10% sequentially, and down 29% year over year. [...]
BioSurplus Announces Custom Packaging and Crating Service for Lab Equipment
October 24, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- BioSurplus announced today that it will now offer in-house custom packaging and crating services for its online store, showroom and auction customers. In keeping with the company’s dedication to hiring staff with science and laboratory equipment backgrounds, BioSurplus is adding experts in custom packaging and crating for sophisticated lab instruments to its [...]
Leica Biosystems Completes Acquisition of Aperio, a Galen Partners Portfolio Company
October 24, 2012
Galen Partners, a leading healthcare growth equity investment firm, announced today that an affiliate of Leica Bioysystems has completed its acquisition of Aperio, a leading provider of ePathology solutions. Aperio will be integrated into Leica Biosystems, a leader in anatomical pathology solutions. Together, the two businesses will leverage each other’s strengths to grow and expand [...]
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 [...]
