Misonix Announces the Sale of Its Laboratory and Forensic Safety Products Business for $1.5 Million
October 20, 2011
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Misonix, Inc., a medical device company that designs, manufactures and markets innovative therapeutic ultrasonic products worldwide for wound debridement, cosmetic surgery, neurosurgery, laparoscopic surgery, and other surgical and medical applications, today announced that it has sold its Laboratory and Forensic Safety Products business to Mystaire, Inc. for $1.5 million in cash plus [...]
PerkinElmer Announces Expiration of Hart-Scott-Rodino Waiting Period
October 20, 2011
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. As amended, and clearance under Germany’s Act against Restraints of Competition (which was granted on October 10, 2011), in connection with its [...]
Amgen Chooses Freeslate as Strategic Partner for Protein Drug Product R&D
October 20, 2011
Sunnyvale, Calif.- Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high throughput research solutions, announced today that Amgen, Inc. has entered into a collaborative relationship with the company to leverage Freeslate solutions in addressing aggregation and particulation in protein drug products. The multi-year project will utilize a range of Freeslate products and services, including technology development, high [...]
JEOL Chemist Receives Prestigious Anachem Award
October 20, 2011
Peabody, Mass. -- JEOL USA Mass Spectrometry Product Manager, Dr. Robert (Chip) Cody, has received the prestigious Anachem Award, given by the Association of Analytical Chemistry for his contributions to the development of organic mass spectrometry. The award was presented at the Federation of Analytical Chemical and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, [...]
October 20, 2011
Hercules, CA — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. announces the launch of the PROTEAN i12 IEF system, the industry's only isoelectric focusing (IEF) system that is designed to simultaneously run up to 12 immobilized pH gradient (IPG) strips in 12 independently programmed lanes. For the best 2-D gel electrophoresis results, researchers optimize their sample preparation and first-dimension [...]
GenoLogics Raises $8 Million Strategic Financing Round Led by Illumina
October 20, 2011
VICTORIA, British Columbia--GenoLogics, a leading provider of laboratory information management system (LIMS) software specifically designed for next-generation genomics labs, today announced an $8 million round of strategic financing led by new investor Illumina, Inc., a global leader in next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. The financing will be used to accelerate product development for future clinical applications [...]
Agilent Technologies Awards Two Integrated-Biology Research Grants
October 20, 2011
Agilent Technologies Inc.today announced the winners of the 2011 eMerging Insights grant program: Dr. Michael J. MacCoss of the University of Washington and Dr. Peter J. Park of Harvard University. Each will be awarded $75,000 toward their ongoing research on open source data-integration tools. The first grant,for “Validating Protein Pathway Information: Integrating Proteomic Data with [...]
Cepheid Reports 2011 Third Quarter Results
October 20, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Cepheid today reported revenues for the third quarter of 2011 of $70.2 million. Net income was $1.9 million, or $0.03 per share, which compares to revenues of $56.1 million and a net loss of $1.1 million, or $(0.02) per share, in the third quarter of 2010. Excluding amortization of purchased intangible assets [...]
IONICON US, Inc. starts its operations in North America
October 20, 2011
In March 2011 we founded IONICON US, Inc., a totally-owned subsidiary of Austrian-based IONICON Analytik GmbH. Our new US subsidiary takes over the marketing and after-sales-support for the United States and Canada. I am looking forward to the start-up of operations at IONICON US. This will improve the user experience as one of our most [...]
Introducing Cole-Parmer® Single-Channel Flame Photometer
October 20, 2011
Vernon Hills, Ill. — An affordable option in flame photometers is here—the single channel, analog output, and digital display flame photometer from Cole-Parmer. Five filters for sodium, potassium, lithium, calcium, and barium are included with the unit as a standard feature. Inheriting the mixing chamber, burner stem, and burner head from a higher-cost design, this [...]
