Tecan appoints Dr David Martyr new Chief Executive Officer

Männedorf, Switzerland, The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Dr David Martyr as Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He will join the company as soon as his current contractual obligations permit, but no later than October 8, 2012. As announced on October 7, 2011, the [...]

Author of Nationwide, NIH-Sponsored Study Endorses Microarray Testing as Preferred Standard of Care for Pre-Natal Testing

IRVINE, Calif., CombiMatrix Corporation, a molecular diagnostics company performing DNA-based testing services for cancer and developmental disorders, today announced that one of the nation's leading clinicians in the field of reproductive genetics has called for chromosomal microarray testing to replace karyotyping, the historic practice, as the standard of care for prenatal testing. CombiMatrix is one [...]

Eppendorf Licenses Technology for Thermal Cyclers to Agilent

HAMBURG, Germany, Eppendorf AG has licensed patents covering gradient technology for thermal cyclers to Agilent Technologies, including US patent Nos. 6,767,512 and 7,074,367. Eppendorf utilizes the technology in its Eppendorf Mastercycler® pro gradient, Mastercycler nexus gradient and Mastercycler ep realplex models. Eppendorf AG, based in Hamburg, Germany, develops, produces and distributes instruments and consumables for [...]

Provides Automation Platform to Offer Integrated Microbiology Lab Solutions

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it has acquired KIESTRA Lab Automation BV, a Netherlands-based company that designs, develops, manufactures, markets and sells innovative lab automation solutions for the microbiology lab. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The transaction [...]

SeraCare Announces Definitive Agreement to be Acquired by Linden Capital Partners

MILFORD, Mass., SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc., a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics and therapeutics, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Linden Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm that focuses [...]

CDEX Inc. Commences Debt Restructuring to Strengthen Company’s Future Competitiveness

TUCSON, AZ, CDEX Inc. today announced that to achieve a debt structure that would allow the Company to continue to develop its leading edge products in the healthcare markets with the ValiMed G4 medication safety system and in the security market with its ID2 Meth Scanner and Pocket ID2 Meth Scanner it has retained the [...]

MBL International Corporation Introduces AngioPhase™ Angiogenesis Kit

MBL International Corporation, a leading life science company focused on providing high quality products and solutions for life science research and clinical diagnostics, today announced the launch of AngioPhase™, an angiogenesis kit which allows for the analysis of all known phases of the angiogenic process in a convenient and flexible format. Angiogenesis is the multistep [...]

Easy-To-Use Electronic Pipette Filler

The Ultrajet pipette controller from Porvair Sciences is an easy-to-use electronic pipette filler. Ergonomically designed the Ultrajet is quick and simple to operate and can be used for extended periods of time without discomfort. Large buttons on the hand grip enable precise fine control of aspiration and dispensing of liquids. An integral LCD display displays [...]

CLC bio and VIB agree on an academic regional site license

CLC bio and VIB, a life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, announced the signing of an academic regional site license agreement for CLC bio's sequence analysis software CLC DNA Workbench. The software will be used across academic institutions in the Flanders region in Belgium, including Universiteit Gent, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Antwerp, and [...]

Integrated DNA Technologies Acquires 1st BASE Oligonucleotide Business in Singapore

CORALVILLE, IA – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has acquired the oligonucleotide business of Singapore’s top supplier in the field, 1st BASE Pte. Ltd (1st BASE). Already the world leader in custom nucleic acid synthesis, IDT will now offer locally-manufactured oligos to researchers in Singapore and throughout the region from the company’s first synthesis facility in [...]

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