Fluidigm Adds Evan Jones to Its Board of Directors

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced that Evan Jones has been appointed to Fluidigm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Jones will also join the Board’s Compensation Committee. “Evan brings more than 25 years of operating and investment experience in the life sciences industry to the Fluidigm Board,” said Sam Colella, Fluidigm Chairman [...]

Techne Corporation Announces Acquisition

MINNEAPOLIS - Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) announced today that as of April 1, 2011, its R&D Systems subsidiary has acquired the assets of Boston Biochem, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of innovative ubiquitin-related research products. These products provide biomedical researchers the tools that facilitate and accelerate basic research and drug discovery efforts. R&D Systems [...]

Developing Micro-Displays with CRAIC Technologies Microscope Spectrophotometers

San Dimas - Micro-displays are currently being developed for the next generation of displays and feature ever smaller components. Component geometries have shrunk so much that standard metrology tools have difficulty accurately measuring color and intensity variations with the degree of spatial resolution required. Enter the 308 FPD™ microscope spectrophotometer from CRAIC Technologies. The 308 [...]

QIAGEN Makes Proposal to Acquire Australian Diagnostics Company Cellestis Limited

Venlo, the Netherlands and Melbourne, Australia - QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) has reached an agreement to acquire Cellestis Limited (CST:AU) for approximately A$341 million (US$355 million) in cash, providing QIAGEN with access to a novel “pre-molecular” technology that offers a new dimension in disease detection not currently possible with other diagnostic [...]

VisualSonics Announces Next Generation In Vivo Imaging Technology To Make Strides In Cancer Risk Reduction, Early Detection, Patient Care, And Survivorship

TORONTO, Canada - VisualSonics Inc., a leader in real time, in vivo, high-resolution micro-imaging systems and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SonoSite Inc., (Nasdaq:Sono), is demonstrating the recently announced Vevo® LAZR Photoacoustics Imaging system at the American Association of Cancer Research’s annual conference (April 2-6, 2011, Orlando, FL). The new system has been designed for use [...]

Sofie Biosciences Launches a High Performance, Benchtop Preclinical PET System Using New Generation Detector Technology

CULVER CITY, Calif. - Sofie Biosciences, a developer of molecular imaging systems and agents, announced the launch of GENISYS4, their new benchtop small animal PET system. Introduced today at the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, this compact, preclinical multimodality PET system provides researchers with the ability to non-invasively visualize and measure the [...]

RAE Systems, Inc. Announces Amended Merger Agreement With Vector Capital

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - RAE Systems Inc. (NYSE Amex: RAE) (“RAE” or “the Company”), a leader in delivering innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental, and government safety markets worldwide, today announced that it has entered into an amendment to its merger agreement with an affiliate of Vector Capital (“Vector”) under which the acquirer [...]

ORFLO Launches First Hands-free Mini Automated Cell Counter

ORLANDO, Fla. - ORFLO Technologies announced the international launch of Moxi™ Z, the life science industry's first hands-free mini automated cell counter at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Orlando. "The Moxi Z mini cell counter sets a new bar for the cell counting community," said Manju Sethi, Vice President of Business [...]

Oxford Instruments and Vericheck Form Strategic Business Alliance

Oxford Instruments Inc. Concord, MA announces a new distribution agreement with Verichek Technical Services (VTS) to sell the X-MET handheld XRF analyzer into customers requiring scrap sorting and PMI testing capability in the United States of America commencing from April 1st 2011. Oxford Instruments Industrial Analysis, the global supplier of XRF based materials analysis instruments, [...]

Arrayit Corporation Announces the Product Launch of OvaDx(R), the Market’s First Pre-Symptomatic Screening Test for Ovarian Cancer

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC - News) announces today the product launch of OvaDx®, the market's first Pre-Symptomatic Screening Test for Ovarian Cancer. The company is offering the first 1,000 tests to attendees of the 102nd annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) at the Orange County Convention Center in [...]

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