Sequenom Named to NASDAQ Global Select Market

SAN DIEGO -- Sequenom, Inc., a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced that the company has been upgraded to the NASDAQ Global Select Market, a segment of the NASDAQ Global Market with the highest initial listing standards of any exchange in the world. Sequenom will continue to trade under the ticker [...]

Laser etched 2D tube coding ensures secure traceable sample storage

Micronic Europe offers a comprehensive range of high quality 2D coded tubes Identifying your sample via a code on the tube can be done in a number of ways. However the most reliable in terms of long-term identification and tracking of samples is via a 2D coding on the bottom of the tubes. However not [...]

Illumina Hires Laura Lauman as Vice President of Marketing

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced it has appointed Laura Lauman as Vice President of Marketing. In this executive management position, Lauman will lead Illumina’s global marketing efforts. “Lauman has a distinguished track record of success in building and driving growth in global, complex businesses and has significant general management experience in sales, marketing, R&D [...]

Sartorius Closes Acquisition of the Biohit Liquid Handling Business

GOETTINGEN, Germany--Yesterday Sartorius, a leading international process and laboratory technology provider, successfully completed its acquisition of the liquid handling business of the Finnish laboratory supplier Biohit Oyj. The transaction had been announced on October 26, 2011. With this purchase, Sartorius is pursuing its strategy to expand its product offering for laboratory applications. Mechanical and electronic [...]

Changes to the Roche Corporate Executive Committee

Basel, Roche today announced that Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet, currently General Manager of Roche Pharma in France, has been appointed Head of Roche Partnering. Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet will assume her new role on February 1, 2012, and concurrently will join Roche’s enlarged Corporate Executive Committee, reporting to Severin Schwan, CEO of the Roche Group. She will relocate to [...]

Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies Hires Franco Moriconi as Vice President of Product Development and Engineering for Power Grids

FREMONT, Calif. -- Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST), a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced superconducting materials and devices, announced today the appointment of Franco Moriconi as Vice President of Product Development and Engineering for Power Grids. Mr. Moriconi is now based at BEST's California site in Fremont, where he will be responsible [...]

Linguamatics and ChemAxon Announce Project to Enhance Text Mining in Chemistry

CAMBRIDGE, England & BUDAPEST, Hungary & BOSTON--Linguamatics and ChemAxon are pleased to announce that they are partnering in a new, path-breaking project funded by EUREKA’s Eurostars Programme. The project is code-named “ChiKEL”, which means Chemically Informed Knowledge Extraction from Literature. ChiKEL will provide the first interactive text mining system designed for chemistry, integrating advanced chemical [...]

DNA2.0 Integrates Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Into Gene Designer

Menlo Park, CA - DNA2.0 the leading provider of bioengineering solutions, today announced the integration of the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) into the company’s groundbreaking gene design and assembly tool, Gene Designer. SBOL is a synthetic biology standard exchange format that allows scientists to share, store, explore and publish genetic elements created through computer [...]

Danaher Reaffirms 2011 Guidance and Initiates 2012 Outlook

WASHINGTON -- Ahead of an institutional investor and analyst meeting to be held in New York, Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) reaffirmed the Company's fourth quarter 2011 adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance of $0.75 - $0.80. The fourth quarter guidance includes $0.74 - $0.79 of earnings per share from continuing operations and $0.01 of earnings [...]

METTLER TOLEDO FlowIR Gives Ley Team Window on Reactions

The METTLER TOLEDO FlowIR flow chemistry monitoring system is providing valuable particle characterization knowledge for synthesis projects performed by the Ley Group at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. FlowIR is a dedicated Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) instrument for real-time continuous flow chemistry monitoring. Fast, real-time information on reaction progress has allowed quicker [...]

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