The Emerging Technology Accelerator Awards Initial Investments

Battle Creek, MI, The Emerging Technology Accelerator (ETA), an initiative of the Global Food Protection Institute (GFPI) advancing the development of novel food protection technology platforms, today announced it will make investments in two innovative startup companies that have developed products that rapidly detect pathogens in food. Seattle Sensor Systems and nanoRETE were selected from [...]

FEI Appoints Two to Its Board of Directors

HILLSBORO, Ore., FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Homa Bahrami and Ms. Jami K. Nachtsheim to the board of the company. Dr. Bahrami is a senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, specializing in organizational design for global knowledge-based companies, and a faculty director [...]

Bruker Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011

BILLERICA, Mass., Bruker Corporation today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011. Fourth Quarter 2011 Financial Highlights: • Revenue increased 14.2% year-over-year to $475.1 million (12.5% currency-adjusted growth, or 12.2% growth excluding acquisitions and currency effects) • Bruker Scientific Instruments (BSI) segment GAAP EPS was $0.25, and BSI adjusted [...]

Bruker Announces Senior Operations Management Appointment

BILLERICA, Mass., Bruker Corporation has announced the appointment of Mr. Stephan Westermann as Executive Vice President – Order Execution, Production & Logistics of the Bruker Scientific Instruments (BSI) segment. Frank Laukien, President and CEO of Bruker Corporation, stated: “We have considered carefully which candidate could be most effective in this important position, and have concluded [...]

MOCON Increases Quarterly Dividend

MINNEAPOLIS, MOCON, Inc. announced today that on February 21, 2012, its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of ten and one-half cents ($0.105) per share, payable on May 18, 2012, to shareholders of record on May 4, 2012. This is a five percent increase over the previous rate of ten cents per share. [...]

Integrated Diagnostics® Secures $10 Million Third Tranche of Series A Financing; Company Appoints CFO and CBO, Completing Executive Team

SEATTLE – Integrated Diagnostics (InDi®), an emerging leader in molecular diagnostics, today announced that the company has made substantial progress in its diagnostic programs, triggering a $10 million third tranche of its Series A financing. The company will use the funds to complete clinical development of its in vitro proteomic-based diagnostics programs and prepare for [...]

Agilent Technologies to Debut the Agilent Science and Technology Symposium, Combining Online and Road-Show Access to Experts, Technology, Science

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced that it will be hosting the Agilent Science and Technology Symposium 2012 in multiple phases. ASTS will include an online symposium on Feb. 29, followed by a mobile trade show, March 20-June 12. The mobile trade show will visit 16 cities in North America and six [...]

TATAA Biocenter Expands Offerings using Roche´s RealTime ready Custom qPCR Assays and Panels

PENZBERG, Germany, TATAA Biocenter, Europe's leading provider of genomic services using quantitative real-time polymerase PCR (qPCR), is expanding its offerings to high-throughput gene expression profiling using Roche's RealTime ready Custom qPCR Assays and Panels. TATAA Biocenter's laboratories provide contract research for a full range of real-time qPCR services, including primer and probe design, validation, data [...]

Roche and Life Technologies Corporation Sign New PCR IVD Licenses

PLEASANTON, Calif., Roche and Life Technologies Corporation (LTC) announced today that they have entered into two license agreements to allow LTC to expand its PCR offerings for diagnostics applications. Under these two agreements, Roche has granted LTC an in vitro diagnostics product license to all of Roche's patents for real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) as [...]

Sartorius Stedim Biotech signs Private Label Agreement with Trace Analytics

Goettingen, Braunschweig – Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international provider for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, concluded a private label agreement with Trace Analytics, a leading provider of analyzing systems for online monitoring of biotech cultivation processes. This contract grants SSB exclusive global rights to market, distribute and service BioPAT Trace, the new online [...]

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