Vernon Hills, IL - Cole-Parmer’s popular StableTemp® brand has released an updated selection of refrigerators and new freezers for scientific, medical, and pharmaceutical facilities. Each of the units offers functional features all their own, plus fully adjustable, epoxy-coated interior shelves and heavy-duty casters for easy movement. Factory-installed chart recorders are also available on select models. [...]

WILMINGTON, MA - Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, today announced it has signed agreements with key end-user sites in the United States, Asia, and South America to test its newly launched Quantum Sniffer(TM) QS-B220 bench-top explosives and narcotics trace detector. The [...]

GENEVA - At the 4th Congress of European Microbiologists (Federation of European Microbiological Societies, or FEMS), Bruker announces the extension of its agreement with the private diagnostic laboratory Viollier AG (http://www.viollier.ch), one of the leading Swiss diagnostic laboratories, located in Basel. Viollier has used Bruker's MALDI Biotyper system for MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based microbial identification now [...]

SANTA CLARA Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its Cedar Creek, Texas, reagent manufacturing facility has been registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a medical device establishment. This registration is required for the manufacture of diagnostic products, which Agilent intends to develop. "Many of Agilent's proven research platforms [...]

Washington, D.C. - Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today that Djanet Acquisition Corp., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation, has successfully purchased all of the shares duly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to its tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC) common stock at $83.50 per share, [...]

Columbus, OH – METTLER TOLEDO has launched its newest service offering to improve manufacturing and lower quality control costs—GWP® Verification. GWP Verification virtually guarantees better weighing results, lowered equipment-testing expenses, and enhanced final product consistency through a systematic, expert assessment and benchmarking of balance performance. METTLER TOLEDO’s GWP Verification assesses the performance of weighing equipment [...]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, has today announced that it has received a funding award of £1.16 million from the UK government-backed Technology Strategy Board. As part of the project, OGT will develop a tumour profiling assay based on targeted panel enrichment and next [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA - Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in instrumentation for absolute macromolecular characterization, announces that its Multi-Angle Light Scattering (MALS) instruments represent the latest European Pharmacopoeia (EP) requirements for hydroxyethyl starch (HES) characterization. The European Pharmacopoeia is a single reference work developed by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM). [...]

MATTHEWS, N.C. - CEM Corporation, a leading global provider of laboratory instrumentation, is pleased to announce that AOAC International, a non-profit scientific association, has approved Official Method 2011.04, a protein-tagging and colorimetric technique for the determination of protein content in raw and processed meat and meat products of beef, pork, and poultry. "We are very [...]

Endress+Hauser will supply the global energy company Shell with process measurement instruments, engineering and associated services. Both companies have signed an Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA) with an initial term of five years. Shell selected Endress+Hauser for the global provisioning of instruments and technologies for flow, level, pressure and temperature measurements and for liquid analysis. The [...]