Bruker Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011
February 22, 2012
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
February 22, 2012
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
February 22, 2012
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. [...]
February 22, 2012
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 [...]
February 22, 2012
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
February 22, 2012
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
February 22, 2012
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
February 22, 2012
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 [...]
Samples perfectly protected by ULTRA.GUARDTM
February 21, 2012
With the introduction of ULTRA.GUARDTM technology, the ultra low temperature freezers from BINDER open a new dimension in safety and reliability, making them particularly suitable for use in laboratories and hospitals. At the same time, the high-end units have a high degree of user-friendliness second to none in the field. Developers have even thought about [...]
Nanolane revolutionizes conventional microscopes with Sarfus Mapping Lite
February 21, 2012
Nanolane of France, a specialist in the development and commercialization of optical solutions for characterizing nanomaterial systems, has launched Sarfus Mapping Lite — an innovative measurement solution that fits with any optical microscope set-up functioning with reflected light. French-based Nanolane has recently created easy-to-use Sarfus Mapping Lite, a plug-in piece of apparatus, the main components [...]
