ProteinSimple to Offer Direct Sales, Service and Support for Biologics Products in Europe
October 7, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- ProteinSimple today announced plans to provide direct sales, field applications and field service support for its biologics products in Europe, effective January 1, 2012. Two industry-leading product lines are included in this expanded support structure: iCE Imaged Capillary Electrophoresis systems and MFI Micro-Flow Imaging systems. The biologics market segment is a [...]
October 7, 2011
La Jolla, CA - Prognosys Biosciences® is pleased to announce Voila!™, a new cloud-based data analysis service for next-generation sequencing data. Voila! will be available initially for RNA sequencing projects that utilize data from Illumina® HiSeq and GAIIx next-generation sequencing instruments. Researchers working with RNA sequencing data face many analysis challenges, ranging from the size [...]
Thorlabs Expands Life Science Offerings with Burleigh® Acquisition
October 7, 2011
Newton, NJ, USA and Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA – Thorlabs, Inc. of Newton, NJ and Lumen Dynamics Group, Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario jointly announced today Thorlabs’ acquisition of the Burleigh® product line assets of Lumen Dynamics. Burleigh is a world leader in manufacturing a wide range of manipulation and precision motion control equipment for applications within [...]
Tecan Initiates CEO Succession Process
October 7, 2011
Männedorf, Switzerland – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today announced that the Board of Directors has initiated a succession process for the top management position. In the coming months, the Board of Directors will elect a new CEO who will continue implementing Tecan’s growth strategy. Thomas Bachmann, CEO of the Group since the [...]
Lumen Dynamics Sells Burleigh Product Line
October 7, 2011
Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA - Lumen Dynamics Group Inc. announced today that it has sold its Burleigh® product line to Thorlabs Inc, a leader in photonics equipment for the scientific market. Burleigh® products include piezoelectric micromanipulators and microscope mounting systems for the life science research market. The divestiture will allow the Burleigh® product line to be [...]
Illumina Announces Preliminary Revenue for Third Quarter 2011
October 6, 2011
Illumina, Inc. today announced estimated third quarter revenue of approximately $235 million. This estimate is based on management's preliminary financial review and remains subject to review by our independent registered public accounting firm. We currently believe the following factors negatively affected our revenue in the third quarter compared to our forecast: Continued uncertainty surrounding the [...]
Exiqon A/S – Exiqon and Roswell Park sign Center of Excellence Agreement
October 6, 2011
Exiqon A/S, a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, and Health Research, Inc., Roswell Park Cancer Institute Division, where groundbreaking research by Roswell Park scientists has led to greater understanding of the nature of cancer and to major advances in cancer diagnostics and treatments that are now in use worldwide, today announced that [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Mass Spectrometry Systems Selected by CVUA-MEL to Ensure Food Safety
October 6, 2011
SAN JOSE, California – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL) has standardized on Thermo Scientific LC-MS and GC-MS systems for routine analyses of contaminants in food, feed and human samples. The CVUA-MEL requires extremely high resolution and highly sensitive instruments [...]
October 6, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Affymetrix(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) today announced commercialization of 18 new array designs for whole-transcriptome analysis of model and applied research organisms that will allow scientists to obtain a more complete gene expression view than traditional 3' biased arrays. The new Affymetrix(R) Gene 1.1 ST Array Strips are created exclusively for the [...]
Precision BioSciences Sues Cellectis for Patent Infringement
October 6, 2011
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--Precision BioSciences, Inc., the world leader in rational genome engineering, today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Cellectis SA and its affiliates Cellectis bioresearch and Cellectis bioresearch Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The lawsuit seeks a ruling that Cellectis’ manufacture, use and [...]
