Acquisition of Navigenics Expands Life Technologies’ Capabilities in Diagnostics
July 16, 2012
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the acquisition of Navigenics, Inc. This acquisition represents Life Technologies' first step in executing against a strategy to build out its molecular diagnostics business through internal development, partnerships and select acquisitions. "Genetic analysis is becoming increasingly accessible, cost-effective and a critical part of patient clinical [...]
Roche Diagnostics showcases new technology at 2012 Clinical Lab Expo
July 16, 2012
LOS ANGELES, -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) will exhibit a diverse portfolio of new diagnostics testing solutions for laboratory and other healthcare professionals in booth #1831 at the AACC/CSCC 2012 Clinical Lab Expo here, July 17-19. The Roche booth will feature technology designed to help diagnostic laboratories do more with less and enhance [...]
Life Technologies Signs Collaborative Agreement with Douglas Scientific
July 13, 2012
CARLSBAD, Calif., and ALEXANDRIA, Minn.,– Life Technologies Corporation and Douglas Scientific LLC today announced they have signed a collaboration and co-marketing agreement to optimize technologies from both companies and provide seamless solutions designed for high-throughput genotyping applications. This collaboration will leverage Life’s industry-leading TaqMan® Assays and Douglas’s disruptive Array Tape™ Platform. The growing demand for [...]
Corning Announces New Advanced Life Sciences Research, Collaboration and Education Center
July 13, 2012
CORNING, N.Y., -- Corning Life Sciences, a segment of Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), today announced the opening of a life sciences lab in Palo Alto, Calif. The new lab is housed within the existing Corning West Technology Center and will further expand Corning’s customer- and research-centric approach to developing leading products and technologies for the [...]
Xylem announces the acquisition of MJK to enhance its analytics portfolio
July 13, 2012
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, announced today that it has acquired MJK Automation A/S, a privately owned company headquartered in Naerum, Denmark for approximately $12.3 million (DKK 75 million). The actual terms of the transaction were not [...]
Release of BioFormatix’s Bootstrapped ROC plug-in for CLC bio’s platform
July 13, 2012
Long Beach, California -– This Sunday, CLC bio and BioFormatix - a medical diagnostics software developer - will officially release their Bootstrapped Receiver Operating Characteristic (bROC) plug-in for CLC bio's desktop software packages, CLC Main Workbench and CLC Genomics Workbench. The plug-in and the process behind developing it will officially be presented during CLC bio's [...]
New TEM Will Image Individual Atoms, MRI Announces
July 13, 2012
Today, Penn State announced the acquisition of the FEI Titan3 scanning/transmission electron microscope (S/TEM), called the Titan Cubed. This double aberration corrected 60-300 kV S/TEM will take imaging and chemical characterization to a new level with subatomic resolution. In announcing the acquisition, MRI director Carlo Pantano noted that in the history of materials research, advanced [...]
July 13, 2012
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) will feature new solutions to improve data management and automation at this year's American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) annual meeting, July 15-19, in Los Angeles, Calif. Solutions to further enhance efficiency and workflow in today's laboratories will be the focal point of the Abbott exhibit. "Today, laboratories [...]
NanoPlus DLS Nano Particle Size and Zeta Potential
July 12, 2012
The NanoPlus is a unique instrument that utilizes photon correlation spectroscopy and electrophoretic light scattering techniques to determine particle size and zeta potential. The instrument can measure the particle size of samples suspended in liquids in the range of 0.6 nm to 10 ?m with sample suspension concentrations from 0.00001% to 40%. This instrument also [...]
July 12, 2012
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the University of California, Davis,Agilent Technologies Inc., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today a collaboration to create a public database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen genomes to help speed identification of bacteria responsible for foodborne outbreaks. The database will provide a roadmap for development [...]

