INDIANAPOLIS, Roche announced today that it has signed an agreement under which it will acquire 100 percent of Verum Diagnostica GmbH, based in Munich, Germany. Verum Diagnostica is a leading company in platelet function testing, the fastest-growing field in the coagulation diagnostics market. The acquisition supports plans Roche announced in October to expand its coagulation [...]

DENVER, FEI, a leading instrumentation company providing imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, today announced a new correlative workflow solution for research scientists. FEI's MAPS (Modular Automated Processing System) provides a fast and efficient correlative workflow that enables researchers to see both large scale context and small scale detail in one overview. The [...]

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., Olympus today introduced another advanced 25x super-long-working-distance microscope objective designed to be used with the SCALEVIEW-A2 clearing reagent - this one delivering vivid 3D image capture of structures 8mm deep, much further into contiguous tissue than was ever possible before. The 8mm objective is the second high-performance optic Olympus has designed for [...]

Tedia Company, Inc., of Fairfield, OH, the largest producer of OEM high-purity solvents in North America, has entered into a joint venture with a Chinese firm to operate the largest high-purity solvents manufacturing plant in Asia. Tedia is the first international company to invest directly in a high-purity solvents manufacturing facility in China. Tedia will [...]

Basel, Switzerland, Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced Axxam is advancing its high-throughput screening services with Genedata Screener. Axxam, a leading contract research and discovery company, focuses on collaborative research programs for the life science industry. With Genedata Screener’s flexible configuration capabilities and rich [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & TORONTO, DVS Sciences, Inc., a privately held innovator and manufacturer of novel CyTOF® multi-parameter single-cell analyzers and MAXPAR® reagents for biological research and potential clinical applications, today announced that Joseph Victor has been appointed President and CEO and a Director. Mr. Victor has more than 25 years of experience fostering product innovation [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced an expanded set of capabilities for its popular 6000ILM atomic force microscope. Designed to facilitate molecular imaging, live-cell imaging, force studies and mechanical stimulus studies, the Agilent 6000ILM AFM is a versatile single-system solution that seamlessly integrates the capabilities of an atomic force microscope with those of [...]

SAN DIEGO, ForteBio®, Inc., a leading supplier of label-free technology that accelerates the development of biotherapeutic and pharmaceutical products, today announced the launch of BLItz™, a revolutionary new platform that will enable scientists – for the first time – to conduct label-free analyses of proteins using small sample volumes easily and cost-efficiently at their lab [...]

Dunedin, FL, Advances in high-performance sensor materials and optoelectronics have enabled novel optical sensors for use in applications in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food and beverage processing and more. Compared with traditional electrochemical sensing techniques such as galvanic sensors, Ocean Optics (www.oceanoptics.com) optical sensors can be made in small and customizable form factors, allow non-intrusive [...]

Billerica, MA, EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Germany, today announced launch of the innovative Muse™ Cell Analyzer system for real-time quantitative assessment of cell concentration, cell health, apoptosis, and cell cycle with greater accuracy and precision than manual hemocytometry or image-based automated analysis. By providing real-time, multi-dimensional information on cell [...]