Accelrys Strengthens Leadership Team with Appointment of New Senior Vice President of Marketing, Product Management and Corporate Development

SAN DIEGO, -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced that it has appointed former Siemens executive Leif Pedersen as its senior vice president of marketing, product management and corporate development. Pedersen joins Accelrys as the company expands its breadth of scientific innovation lifecycle software into multiple [...]

Implant Sciences Ships Follow-On Order to Japan for Protection of Nuclear Power Plant

Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today announced it has shipped its Quantum Sniffer™ QS-H150 handheld explosives trace detector for the protection of a nuclear power facility in Japan. This customer has repeatedly purchased explosive trace detectors from Implant Sciences due to [...]

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and NetBio launch DNAscan Rapid DNA Analysis System for forensic applications

Chalfont St. Giles, UK and Waltham, MA USA –– GE Healthcare Life Sciences, a business unit of GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) and NetBio, a leading technology provider in the emerging field of rapid DNA analysis, announced today the launch of DNAscan™ Rapid DNA Analysis™ System, a fast, rugged and easy-to-use DNA analysis instrument for forensic [...]

SDIX Sells Food Safety and GMO Businesses to Romer Labs for $13.5 Million

NEWARK, Del.--SDIX™ (NASDAQ: SDIX), a leading provider of biotechnology-based products and services, today announced it has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its Food Safety and GMO businesses to Romer Labs for $13.5 million. Following this transaction, the Company will concentrate on its Life Science business. Romer Labs is acquiring the intellectual [...]

Phenomenex Introduces 5-micron Kinetex® Core-Shell Media

Torrance, CA - Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the addition of a 5-micron particle to its Kinetex core-shell product line. As the largest diameter particle in the family, Kinetex 5-micron core-shell columns deliver better performance than 3- or 5-micron fully porous offerings, [...]

Romer Labs Acquires SDIX Food Safety and GMO Business

Tulln, Austria –- Romer Labs, a leading global supplier of food safety diagnostics, announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of the food safety and GMO businesses of Strategic Diagnostics Inc. (NASDAQ:SDIX). The deal accelerates Romer Labs’ move into food pathogen detection and augments its product and service range, making [...]

Implant Sciences Ships Explosives Trace Detectors to the Arabian Gulf to Protect Petroleum Infrastructure and Transport

Continuing its sales to the oil and gas industry for critical infrastructure protection, Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today announced that it has sold seven units of its Quantum Sniffer QS-B220 desktop explosives and drugs trace detectors and Quantum Sniffer QS-H150 [...]

Ocean Optics Appoints New President

Dunedin, FL – Ocean Optics, has appointed Richard Pollard to the position of company President. Pollard’s promotion follows the move of former President Kevin Chittim to positions on Ocean Optics’ board and as Divisional Acquisition Executive for Ocean Optics’ parent company, Halma plc. Pollard joined Ocean Optics in 2006 as Vice President, Operations, and was [...]

Addtech acquires Leica Nilomark Oy

Leica Nilomark offers consumables and instruments to healthcare and medical research laboratories. The company has a strong market position in the Finnish market and represents leading suppliers within areas such as microscopy and histopathology. Leica Nilomark has ten employees and sales of around EUR 3 million. Leica Nilomark is acquired by Immuno Diagnostic Oy, a [...]

IonSense® Introduces the OpenSpot Quick Strips™ for the DART OS Transmission Module™, Providing Rapid Analysis in Food Safety and Product Quality

Saugus, MA, -- IonSense, Inc. today announced the introduction of its OpenSpot Quick Strips™ for the DART OS Transmission Module™, enabling the rapid and reproducible analysis of samples and providing quality control of both raw materials and finished products. The product utilizes IonSense’s proprietary Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART®) technology. The OpenSpot Quick Strips [...]

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