Corning Announces New and Improved 384-Well Clear Bottom Microplates
December 2, 2011
CORNING, N.Y., Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced an upgrade to its existing line of Corning® 384-well clear bottom microplates. The new 384-well clear bottom microplates are the latest example of Corning’s ongoing 384-well microplate upgrade project. The new microplates are dimensionally identical to the recently upgraded-solid colored microplates, allowing for easy transition into existing [...]
Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Investigation of Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
December 2, 2011
NEW YORK, Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential securities fraud at Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (“PacBio” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PACB - News). The investigation focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose that: (1) contrary to the Company’s [...]
December 2, 2011
BILLERICA, Mass., Millipore Corporation, the Life Science business of Merck KGaA of Germany, that operates as EMD Millipore in the U.S. and Canada, today announced that all its remaining outstanding 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026 (the "Notes") were redeemed on December 1, 2011, at one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding principle amount of [...]
Cofactor Genomics Develops World’s First Bos taurus Exome Capture Product
December 1, 2011
ST. LOUIS, Cofactor Genomics, a leading biotechnology company, announced today it will release a product to allow researchers to selectively enrich, sequence, analyze and detect variants in coding and regulatory regions of the Bovine (cow) genome. The creation of a Bos taurus exome capture product will provide sequence-verified SNP’s, insertions, and deletions, without any prior [...]
Merck Appoints Heads of Corporate Auditing and Corporate Strategy
December 1, 2011
Darmstadt, Merck announced that Friederike Rotsch has been appointed head of corporate auditing. She reports to Karl-Ludwig Kley, chairman of the executive board of Merck. At the same time, the company announced that Isabel De Paoli will assume the leadership of corporate strategy. She too will report directly to Kley. “I am pleased that we [...]
Corning Acquires Mediatech, Inc.
December 1, 2011
CORNING, N.Y., Corning Incorporated announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Mediatech, Inc., a Virginia-based corporation, including Mediatech’s subsidiary, KD Medical, Inc., a Maryland-based corporation. Mediatech is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Corning and will be integrated into Corning’s Life Sciences segment. The terms of the agreement are not being disclosed. Mediatech [...]
Sirius Analytical and ACD/Labs Announce PhysChem Partnership
December 1, 2011
Toronto, Canada - Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and Sirius Analytical Instruments, Ltd. are pleased to announce a partnership that enables users to predict pKa, logP, and solubility values using ACD/Labs software prior to taking measurements on the SiriusT3 instrument—focusing experimental efforts. The partnership will enable users to easily set up a "Sample Model" with [...]
Accelrys Announces Chr. Hansen Deployment of iLabber ELN to 300 Users
December 1, 2011
SAN DIEGO, Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, is pleased to announce that Chr. Hansen has selected the on-premise iLabber electronic lab notebook (ELN) from Accelrys’ wholly-owned subsidiary Contur for global knowledge management across the enterprise. The iLabber notebook (previously the ConturELN) is a proven, cost-effective, server-based system that [...]
December 1, 2011
BETHESDA, Md., The collaboration of two leading cell image resource centers now provides a more extensive and advanced facility for archiving, sharing, and analyzing microscope images in great detail. The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have [...]
December 1, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Quanterix Corporation, a company enabling a new generation of molecular diagnostic tests based on its revolutionary Single Molecule Array (SiMoA™) technology, announced today that it has been awarded a one year $250,155 contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an assay capable of detecting single molecules of botulinum toxin (BoNT) [...]
