Thermo Fisher Scientific to Acquire Phadia, a Global Leader in Allergy and Autoimmunity Diagnostics
May 19, 2011
WALTHAM, Mass. & UPPSALA, Sweden - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Phadia, a global leader in allergy and autoimmunity diagnostics, from European private equity firm Cinven, for EUR2.47 billion (or approximately $3.5 billion) in cash. The transaction, [...]
RAE Systems Announces Rescheduled Date for Special Meeting of Stockholders
May 19, 2011
SAN JOSE, CA - 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 rescheduled its special meeting of stockholders, which will now be held at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, June [...]
Stedim Biotech and RAUMEDIC Sign Partnership Agreement
May 19, 2011
Goettingen, Germany and Helmbrechts, Germany - Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), an international leading pharma and biotech supplier, and RAUMEDIC, a leading worldwide OEM manufacturer of medical- and pharmaceutical-grade polymer components and systems, announced the signing of a global partnership agreement. This covers arrangements concerning the mutual development of innovative fluid systems and marketing of single-use [...]
Implant Sciences Announces $700,000 in New Orders for Quantum Sniffer Units
May 19, 2011
WILMINGTON, MA - Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, today announced that it has received orders for its Quantum Sniffer(TM) QS-H150 portable explosives trace detection (ETD) device which total approximately $700,000. The orders will be delivered into China, Spain, the United Kingdom [...]
METTLER TOLEDO Introduces the Flash Differential Scanning Calorimeter – Flash DSC 1
May 19, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Building on our fifty-year commitment of providing technology leading solutions to the field of materials characterization, METTLER TOLEDO introduces a revolutionary instrument that expands the boundaries of thermal analysis—the Flash Differential Scanning Calorimeter (FDSC). The Flash DSC 1 has extremely high cooling (-4,000 ºC/sec) and heating (40,000 ºC/sec) rates which allow scientists [...]
Newport Introduces New WEU-02 Wavelength Extension Unit for Multimodal Imaging and Spectroscopy
May 19, 2011
Irvine, CA - Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in lasers and photonics solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light®, has introduced the WEU-02, a wavelength extension unit designed to expand the capability of femtosecond lasers. Through a series of user controls, the WEU-02 can be configured for use in various spectroscopy, imaging, and pump-probe applications. [...]
TexturePro CT Version 1.3 from Brookfield
May 19, 2011
Middleboro, MA - TexturePro CT software from Brookfield is a powerful, intuitive, and robust application that helps users perform detailed texture analysis on test samples of various shapes and sizes. The primary advantage gained from use of the software is automation of test procedure and removal of operator bias from the test. Real-time graphic plotting [...]
LI-COR Releases New Eddy Covariance Processing Software
May 19, 2011
LINCOLN, Neb. - LI-COR Biosciences introduces EddyPro Express, an open source software package that computes fluxes of carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and energy using the Eddy Covariance method. EddyPro Express is designed to provide increased data standardization in the Eddy Covariance community by providing a tool that is both robust and straight forward. “Processing [...]
May 19, 2011
The Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) announced at its general meeting the selection and immediate appointment of Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) Director Hidehito Obayashi as the association's chairman. SEAJ was established in March 1985 by major manufactures of semiconductor production equipment in Japan. The organization's membership today consists mainly of manufacturers [...]
DNASTAR announces release of SeqMan NGen Linux Software
May 19, 2011
MADISON, Wisconsin – DNASTAR® announced the release of SeqMan NGen software for the Linux operating system today. This powerful DNA sequence assembly tool is now available on Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. SeqMan NGen is the most powerful next-generation sequence assembly software available in the market and can assemble a whole human genome using [...]
