Maintaining Sample Integrity: New Thermo Scientific Heratherm Chambers from Cole-Parmer
July 12, 2011
Vernon Hills, IL - Ensuring sample integrity is critical in laboratory and pharmaceutical research, microbiology, food technology, and many other scientific applications. With sample protection as its key driver, Thermo Scientific developed a new line of Heratherm Incubators and Gravity Convection Ovens: Thermo Scientific Heratherm General Protocol Incubators are ideal for standard applications in pharmaceutical, [...]
Mirus to Award $250,000 of Transfection Products for Cutting Edge Research
July 12, 2011
MADISON, Wis. - Mirus Bio has initiated the Mirus Research Award Program to recognize the excellent research being conducted in the face of continued national grant funding reductions and decreased R&D budgets. Eligible labs and institutions will be selected based on the quality of the submission, research area, and the proposed novel use of Mirus [...]
July 11, 2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) today announced in connection with its previously announced plan to pursue a separation into three distinct, publicly traded companies that Form 10 Registration Statements have been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for ITT's water-related businesses and ITT's Defense & Information Solutions segment. Presentations [...]
Daylight Solutions Closes $15M Series C Equity Financing
July 11, 2011
SAN DIEGO - Daylight Solutions, Inc. today announced the closing of a $15M Series C equity financing with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) as the lead investor, together with several of the company’s existing investors. The Series C financing will enable the company to continue its high rate of growth, while further maturing and advancing its [...]
TESCAN, Two Decades of Innovation & Excellence
July 11, 2011
TESCAN, a leading manufacturer of scientific instrumentation is celebrating its 20th year anniversary this month. Established in 1991, with the corporate headquarters located in Brno, Czech Republic, TESCAN was founded by five members of the former company TESLA. The Czech Republic has a long and rich history in electron microscopy, as the first commercially available [...]
ITT to Acquire YSI Incorporated
July 11, 2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., and YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO - ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) and privately held YSI Incorporated today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for ITT to acquire, via merger, YSI, a leading developer and manufacturer of sensors, instruments, software, and data collection platforms for environmental water monitoring.The financial terms of the [...]
Acquisition of Avo Photonics, Inc
July 11, 2011
Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, announces the acquisition of Avo Photonics, Inc (‘Avo’) on 8 July 2011 from Blaine Hobson, Whitecap Partners, other shareholders and employees for an initial cash consideration of $9.0 million (£5.6 million). Avo, based in Pennsylvania, USA, designs and manufactures advanced, miniaturised photonic components and subsystems for [...]
Isogenica Expands Discovery Capacity with Investment in New Automation Facility
July 11, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, England - Isogenica Ltd today announced the opening of a new automation facility at their current location, Chesterford Research Park. Following a substantial refit of additionally acquired space, this new facility will house the high throughput CIS display platform for the discovery of biological therapeutics, diagnostics and reagents using Tecan liquid handling robots and [...]
July 11, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the first commercially available capacitance calibration standard for an atomic force microscope (AFM). The scientific solutions provider issued calibration specifications for capacitance measurements that allow quantitative assessment of material and device properties via its award-winning Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode. Researchers from Agilent collaborated with [...]
Abnova Introduces High Throughput TR-FRET Assay System (Interactor®) for Drug Discovery Market
July 11, 2011
Neihu, Taiwan - Abnova Corporation and Biotek announced today the collaboration and introduction of a high throughput, protein-protein interaction (PPI) assay system (Interactor®) based on time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (TR-FRET). While conventional applications of TR-FRET focus primarily on GPCR second messengers and kinases, the emerging field of PPIs as druggable targets for high throughput [...]
