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) [...]
December 1, 2011
DAEJON, Republic of Korea, Bruker Corporation and the Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology (GRAST) at Chungnam National University have announced a collaboration to advance the field of Glycomics and its applications in the rapidly growing biopharmaceutical industry in the Republic of Korea. This collaboration adds to the growing number of partnerships and industry [...]
December 1, 2011
ISSAQUAH, Wash., Applied Precision, a GE Healthcare company, will showcase its DeltaVision OMX V4 Blaze™, a microscopy system designed to reach the next level in the evolution of super-resolution imaging by employing a proprietary, ultra-fast, illumination module and the latest advanced high-speed camera technologies. The OMX Blaze will be showcased to the public for the [...]
Nanion’s SyncroPatch 96 Convinces Big Pharma Automated Patch Clamp Users
November 30, 2011
Munich, Germany - Nanion’s ion channel screening platform,the SyncroPatch 96, has been well received within the pharmaceutical industry during the past 12 months. Experienced automated patch clamp users continuously decide in favor of the SyncroPatch 96 because of its high throughput and costefficiency in combination with reliable pharmacology for heterologous voltage- and ligand-gated ion channel [...]
November 30, 2011
WILMINGTON, Del. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the University of California (UC), San Diego, Division of Nephrology/Hypertension has implemented a Thermo Scientific NanoDrop 3300 Fluorospectrometer as the fluorescent detection system for mouse glomerular filtration rate (GFR) determination. The Thermo Scientific NanoDrop 3300 Fluorospectrometer offers a reliable [...]
