RAE Systems Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Vector Capital for $1.75 per Share in Cash
January 18, 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, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with affiliates of Vector Capital ("Vector") under which an affiliate of Vector will [...]
January 18, 2011
WASHINGTON - Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Pacific Scientific Aerospace business (other than the Artus business) to Meggitt PLC (LSE: MGGT), a global aerospace and defense company. Danaher simultaneously received a binding offer from Meggitt to acquire the Artus business which remains open for [...]
January 18, 2011
SOMERVILLE, MA - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that Biogemma, a European leader in plant biotechnologies for the agricultural sector, has selected TIBCO Spotfire® 3.1 to move beyond transcriptomic analyses and embark on new types of integrative research based on genetic maps. "Before, genetic analyses were mainly conducted with the help of software [...]
Galbraith Laboratories, Inc. Expands Services With Agilent GC/MS 5975C
January 18, 2011
Knoxville, TN - Galbraith Laboratories, Inc., an industry leader in analytical chemistry / elemental analysis, is pleased to announce the addition of an Agilent GC/MS 5975C inert Mass Spectroscopy Detector (MSD) using EI ionization. This MSD system provides advanced analytical capabilities that enable Galbraith to offer clients enhanced organic testing services. The system is integrated [...]
January 18, 2011
SAN DIEGO - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the Illumina Agricultural Greater Good (AGG) initiative to help spur critically needed research in identifying and breeding plants and animals that will increase the sustainability, productivity and nutritional density of agricultural and livestock species. Under the initiative, the company will make available free of charge its sequencing [...]
TimeLogic’s latest FPGA technology to be coupled with Geneious Server
January 18, 2011
Biomatters and Active Motif are to support the latest version of TimeLogic's Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology within Geneious Server™.The partnership, launching at this week’s Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XIX) in San Diego, will lead to faster sequence analyses for researchers with high-intensity visualization and computing needs. The planned DeCypher™ module for [...]
January 18, 2011
BILLERICA, Mass. - American Science and Engineering, Inc. ("AS&E") (NASDAQ: ASEI) a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of a $14 million contract award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate's CanScan Program to design and build a non-intrusive inspection (NII) system for [...]
New Sievers 5310 Protable TOC Analyzer
January 18, 2011
Boulder, CO - GE Analytical Instruments announces the new Sievers 5310 C Portable Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer, designed specifically for municipal drinking water applications. This rounds out the 5310 C Series that already includes a laboratory and on-line model. All provide 12-month calibration stability, easy operation, comply with USEPA-approved methodology, and feature automated protocols [...]
January 17, 2011
PANalytical (Almelo, the Netherlands) and Fanuc (via their Fanuc System House E&S Automation GmbH in Baesweiler, Germany) have agreed upon an exclusive supply to PANalytical of automated Fanuc Robodrill milling machines for the automated laboratory environment in the metals industries. At various steps in the production process of metals (like iron, steel, copper and aluminium), [...]
Lucigen Corporation Awarded $1.4M in SBIR Phase II Grant.
January 17, 2011
Lucigen Corporation is pleased to announce that it has recently been awarded a Phase II SBIR grant to fund additional research and development. The National Institutes of Health has awarded Lucigen $1,461,160 as a Small Business Innovation Research grant to be used over the next 3 years to develop research tools with the potential to [...]
