Shrink Nanotechnologies’ Innovative Stem Cell Culturing Technology “StemDisc” Nears Commercialization

Shrink Nanotechnologies announced today that it is entering the final phase of its commercialization program for its first cell culturing devices for the StemDisc family of stem cell culturing products. Within the last week, Shrink has received the final mold for the initial StemDisc product line. The balance of the design parameters have been completed, [...]

JPK Instruments Announce the Vortis(TM) Advanced Fully Digital SPM Control Station

Berlin - JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation in life sciences and soft matter announces the Vortis(TM) Advanced, the new standard in SPM Control systems with the lowest noise and highest signal speeds seen to date. Providing the highest performance of electronics controller for scanning probe microscopes, SPM, is one of the driving [...]

Coherent Ships 1000 Chameleon Lasers for MPE Imaging

Santa Clara, Calif. – Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has now shipped 1000 of the company’s Chameleon lasers for use in multiphoton excitation (MPE) microscopy, making this broadly tunable “one-box” laser the market leader in this key bioimaging application. Chameleon lasers provide biologists with widely tunable, push button femtosecond output with pulse characteristics [...]

New Artificial Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)

Artificial Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) closely matches the electrolyte concentrations and osmolality found in authentic cerebrospinal fluid. Artificial CSF is commonly used as a sterile diluent or flushing fluid for delivery of molecules into the brain. It can also be used when sampling brain interstitial fluid. Artificial CSF manufactured by Harvard Apparatus is perfect for use [...]

PositiveID Corporation Comments on Digital Angel Corporation’s Response to Acquisition Proposal

PositiveID Urges Digital Angel's Board of Directors to Call a Special Meeting to Consider the Offer DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:PSID) commented today on Digital Angel Corporation's ("DIGA") (Nasdaq:DIGA) response to the Company's proposal to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of DIGA through a merger transaction. Prior [...]

New Contract Services for Nanoparticles and Surface Dissolution

Paraytec Ltd (York, UK) announce the launch of a new contract services business. Dr Mebs Surve, Business Development Director for Paraytec explained ‘Our new contract analysis and contract research business is based on Paraytec’s ground breaking technologies for sizing biopharmaceuticals and nanoparticles and also for surface dissolution imaging. These services are designed for customers who [...]

PositiveID Corporation Presents Offer to Acquire Digital Angel Corporation at 60 Percent Premium

Complementary Technologies Would Create New Revenue Opportunities and Leader in Unique Medical and Veterinary Products Including Rapid Medical Testing for Humans, Animals and Food Safety Applications Merger is Expected to be Accretive to PositiveID Stockholders With $35-$40 Million in Combined Revenue DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:PSID) announced today that [...]

Cellular Dynamics International, ACEA Biosciences, and Roche Applied Sciences Cooperate

Evaluating iCell Cardiomyocytes on the xCELLigence System Madison, Wisc. - Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) announced today their partnership with ACEA Biosciences to bring early and accurate prediction of potential cardiotoxic side effects to the drug discovery process. The partnership combines CDI’s induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived heart cells, iCell™ Cardiomyocytes, with the xCELLigence™ RTCA System. [...]

Digital Angel Receives Unsolicited Proposal for Aquisition

SO. ST. PAUL, MN - Digital Angel (NASDAQ: DIGA), an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, today confirmed that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from PositiveID Corporation (NASDAQ: PSID) that, subject to due diligence and other unstated conditions, PSID is prepared to make an offer to [...]

Universal Sensors Show Potential for a 5 minute Test to Detect Trace Levels of Multiple Illegal Drugs

Earlier this year, the North Review of Drink and Drug Driving Law highlighted the value of a spit test to catch drug drivers. Testing for drugs in saliva is very challenging, but findings announced today by Universal Sensors Ltd (Cambridge, UK) show that its Vantix biosensor technology can detect trace quantities of both cocaine and [...]

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