IDEX Announces Close of CVI Acquisition
June 10, 2011
LAKE FOREST, Ill.- IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) announced today that it closed the acquisition of CVI Melles Griot. The Company previously announced that it had entered into a definitive purchase agreement by press release on May, 11 2011. About IDEX IDEX Corporation is an applied solutions company specializing in fluid and metering technologies, health and [...]
June 10, 2011
NEW YORK - Enzo Biochem Inc. (NYSE:ENZ), as part of its continuing program to offer novel molecular tests, announced that its Enzo Clinical Labs subsidiary has reached an agreement with IncellDx Inc. of Menlo Park, CA, for the rights to market a proprietary laboratory test. The test is based upon HPV OncoTect™, an advanced molecular [...]
June 10, 2011
CARLSBAD, Calif. - Life Technologies Corporation has signed an exclusive license agreement for novel technology that enables synthetic biologists to effectively program and control the genetic circuitry in engineered pathways and organisms. This technology, discovered by the inventors while at Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg in Germany, provides the ability to target and regulate expression within the genome [...]
June 10, 2011
BILLERICA, Mass. - Data was presented at the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2011 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium showing multiple protein biomarkers predictive of clinical benefit and prognostic of disease outcome in patients with advanced or metastatic renal cell cancer. This Phase III trial validated plasma cytokine and angiogenic biomarkers using Aushon’s multiplex immunoassay platform. [...]
June 9, 2011
Boulder, CO - GE Analytical Instruments has released new firmware for the Sievers InnovOx Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzers that gives users additional ease of use and functionality. GE designed the InnovOx to provide industry-leading sample handling robustness and instrument uptime for process, environmental, and wastewater TOC analysis. Available in both laboratory and on-line models, [...]
June 9, 2011
Guilford, UK and Burlington, MA - IDBS, a global provider of innovative data management, analytics and modeling solutions, today announced that the UK's national innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, has selected an IDBS-led consortium to create an informatics platform to support stratified and translational medicine research and cross-organizational collaboration. The consortium consists of IDBS, [...]
RAE Systems Inc. Stockholders Approve Merger Agreement With Vector Capital
June 9, 2011
SAN JOSE, CA - RAE Systems Inc. (NYSE Amex: RAE) ("RAE" or "the Company"), a leader in delivering innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental, and government safety markets worldwide, announced the results of the Company's Special Meeting of Stockholders held today. The RAE stockholders voted to approve the merger agreement entered into on [...]
June 9, 2011
Madison, WI - An agreement between UCLA and Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) will provide stem cell and cancer researchers with leading-edge technologies that will drive research capabilities and further the understanding of complex disease. The technologies, including the latest generation microarray systems from Roche NimbleGen, high-throughput screening instruments, genetic expression profilers and exome [...]
oBiTec Expands Its Selection of High Quality Gene Expression Systems for Bacillus megaterium
June 9, 2011
Goettingen, Germany - MoBiTec GmbH, leading provider of non-Escherichia coli protein expression systems, expands its series of expression vector systems suitable for protein expression in Bacillus megaterium. Bacillus megaterium is a well established and preferred host for heterologous gene expression and an excellent alternative to the widely used working horse Escherichia coli. B. megaterium is [...]
June 9, 2011
Yarmouth, ME: The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has purchased two FlowCAM® particle imaging and analysis systems from water quality instrumentation manufacturer, Fluid Imaging Technologies (www.fluidimaging.com), to monitor source water for the presence of taste and odor causing algae and cyanobacteria. The FlowCAMs are deployed in water quality laboratories at two NYC DEP [...]
