ITT Announces Final Results and Definitive Prices for Its Debt Tender Offer
October 19, 2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- ITT Corporation today announced the final results and definitive prices for its previously announced modified "Dutch Auction" cash tender offer (the "Offer") for up to $100 million aggregate principal amount (the "Tender Cap") of its 7.40% Debentures due 2025 (the "Debentures"). The Offer was conducted in connection with ITT's plan to [...]
Fluidigm Named One of the Fastest Growing Companies
October 19, 2011
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--Fluidigm Corporation, today announced it ranked 218 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Fluidigm grew 425 percent during this period. Fluidigm President and Chief Executive Officer, Gajus Worthington attributes the ranking to life science researchers’ [...]
October 19, 2011
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Process automation specialist Endress+Hauser has acquired a stake in Finesse Solutions, a US company that develops, produces and distributes sensors, hardware and software for bioprocess engineering. Endress+Hauser intends to strengthen its position in the area of biotechnology through this cooperation. "Biotechnological procedures will play an increasingly important role in the future, [...]
NanoWorld AG Appoints Chief Operating Officer
October 18, 2011
Neuchatel, Switzerland - Daniel Guntli, formerly the Assistant General Management, has joined NanoWorld AG’s management team as the new Chief Operating Officer. “Dr Guntli is ideally positioned to take over the responsibility for our operations. He joined NanoWorld over three years ago and gained in-depth knowledge of NanoWorld’s global operational processes and has a track [...]
Promega Introduces GoTaq 1-Step RT-qPCR System for Quantitative Analysis of RNA
October 18, 2011
Madison, WI USA: Promega Corporation announced today that it has launched GoTaq® 1-Step RT-qPCR System for quantitative analysis of RNA. The reagent system gives a brighter signal for earlier quantification of low and high copy RNA targets, using a one-step reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) protocol in a single tube format. The system incorporates BRYT Green® [...]
October 18, 2011
CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE) today announced that Jonathan Rothberg, CEO and founder of Ion Torrent, is a runner-up in this year's Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards for the Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM™), which "promises to sequence DNA more quickly and at a lower cost than other sequencing technologies," the [...]
October 18, 2011
Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Germany, today launched a suite of LentiBrite™ lentiviral biosensors, pre-packaged lentiviral particles encoding proteins fluorescently tagged with green or red fluorescent protein (GFP or RFP). LentiBrite™ Lentiviral BiosensorsThe initial group of biosensors will encode proteins responsible for cell structure such as actin [...]
High quality flasks streamline cell culture workflow
October 18, 2011
Porvair Sciences has announced a new range of affordable, high quality cell culture flasks with design features to streamline your cell culture workflow. Combining the unrivalled optical purity of high-pressure molded 100% USP Class VI virgin crystal polystyrene with a patented low-pressure gas plasma surface treatment allows cells to adhere more efficiently to the surface [...]
Pressure BioSciences Reports 100% Conversion of Series A and B Preferred Stock Into Common Stock
October 18, 2011
SOUTH EASTON, Mass. -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. today announced that all remaining holders of its Series A and B Convertible Preferred Stock have voluntarily converted their shares into Common Stock of the Company. As a result of these conversions, one-hundred percent (100%) of the Company's 345,314 shares of Series A and B Convertible Preferred Stock [...]
October 18, 2011
FREDERICK, Md.--Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostics company focused on commercializing rapid sample preparation and molecular diagnostics systems for the detection of infectious diseases, and CUBRC, Inc., have been awarded a $774,000 contract by the U.S. Army to develop an automated sample preparation system for isolating biological threat indicators for downstream use with field-based detection systems. [...]
