BILLERICA, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced Thermo Scientific Au/gold Detection & Identification Technology (AuDIT™), a patent-pending software feature that can help gold buyers meet the challenge of identifying gold-plated items. Thermo Fisher is a pioneer in portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) technology. AuDIT Technology AuDIT is a [...]

Washington, D.C.,- Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today the successful completion of the tender offer made by Danaher's wholly-owned subsidiary, Termessos Acquisition Corp., for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT) at a purchase price of $5.55 per share, net to the seller in cash, without interest, less any applicable [...]

GENNEVILLIERS, FRANCE – GENNEVILLIERS, FRANCE – CAMECA, a world leader in scientific instrumentation and metrology solutions, has announced the release of the latest version of its successful IMS 7f Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer —the IMS 7f-Auto. The new instrument is designed to deliver ultimate precision elemental and isotopic analyses with increased ease of use and [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.)-- Helicos BioSciences Corporation (OTCQB: HLCS.PK) announced today that it has settled its patent infringement litigation against Pacific Biosciences, Inc. The settlement gives Pacific Biosciences freedom-to-operate from Helicos’s patents within a limited field of use covering Pacific Biosciences’ current products only. In addition to paying an undisclosed financial settlement, Pacific Biosciences agreed to refrain [...]

LOUGHBOROUGH, England – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has introduced three new ultrapure Fisher Chemical Optima® Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) grade reagents that modify the mobile phase to minimize background noise and enhance MS detection. Designed for use with the existing ultrapure Optima LC/MS solvent range, the new reagents, comprising [...]

The fast-growing new business partner of Rainbow Coral Corp (OTCBB:RBCC.OB - News) subsidiary Rainbow BioSciences, Nano3D BioSciences (n3D), has been hitting the road hard to spread awareness in the research community about its latest biotech breakthrough: the Bio-Assembler. N3D introduced its cell-levitation technology to dozens of potential clients at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston [...]

ATLANTA – Members of the Siemens Industry Process Analytics Business Unit recently were awarded the prestigious Gilmer/Thomason/Fowler/Konrad (GTFK) Award by the Instrument Society of America Analysis Division (ISA AD) for a technical paper titled “Ambient Temperature Testing Issues for Process Analyzers.” Bob Farmer, global gas chromatograph product manager in Process Analytics, received the award during [...]

BioDot has begun a collaboration with GE Healthcare Life Sciences to better support customers in the diagnostic manufacturing industry. The combination of diagnostic detection and manufacturing technologies from BioDot and GE Healthcare will enable both companies to provide an integrated solution for customers involved in the development of immunoassay and molecular diagnostic kits. The collaboration [...]

BILLERICA, Mass.-- Bruker today announced an order valued at over $2.5 million from ECOPETROL S.A. for high field Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS) instrumentation to be commissioned in Piedecuesta, Colombia at the Instituto Colombiano del Petróleo (ICP). This institute serves as the research and development center for ECOPETROL S.A., a Fortune Global 500 provider of [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and PHOENIX, Ariz. — Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT), the leader in outsourced software product development (OPD) services and Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today announced that they are developing a high-quality biospecimen management system called Bio4D. Initial versions of the Bio4D software, created to manage biological repositories for genetic and [...]