Danaher Extends Cash Tender Offer for Beckman Coulter
May 31, 2011
Washington, D.C. – Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today that its previously announced tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC) for $83.50 per share in cash (“the Offer”) has been extended and will now expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, June 24, 2011, unless [...]
Out-of-Box Solution for Managing Lab Information from Micronic
May 31, 2011
Micronic has announced a new version 4.6 of its popular Track-IT™ information management system. Track-IT is a unique out-of-the-box LIMS/LIS solution made for scientists enabling you to reorganize and track your tubes and samples in just minutes. Fully compatible with most commercial barcode readers, scanners and Tubesorter systems - Track-IT allows you to catalogue and [...]
Persistent Systems to Acquire French Software Business from Agilent Technologies
May 31, 2011
Pune, India - Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT), a leader in outsourced software product development (OPD) services, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Agilent Technologies’ software marketing and development business based in Grenoble, France. Subject to customary closing conditions, the acquisition is expected to be final by August 1, [...]
Exiqon Releases Additional qPCR Array for Mouse and Rat MicroRNAs
May 31, 2011
Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX: EXQ), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the launch of an additional qPCR array for sensitive and specific quantification of 749 mouse and rat microRNAs. With the launch of the new rodent qPCR array, Exiqon now offers two qPCR arrays for mouse and rat microRNAs in [...]
GE Healthcare Opens Life Sciences Demonstration Laboratory at Sweden’s Science for Life Laboratory
May 31, 2011
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - GE Healthcare, the healthcare division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today opened a key new technology facility, the GE Healthcare Life Sciences Demonstration Laboratory, at the prestigious Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Stockholm, Sweden. The Demonstration Laboratory, which is equipped with GE Healthcare’s latest world-class tools and technologies for life [...]
May 31, 2011
The BINDER MKFT series environmental simulation chamber for low temperature alternating climate profiles is the specialist for dynamic alternating climate change between -70 °C and 180 °C. Large performance reserves and rapid cooling make the MKFT the high-end product for complex standards-based climate tests. Its high technological reliability makes the BINDER MKFT series appealing. With [...]
New JEOL Stage Navigation System for SEM and EPMA
May 31, 2011
Peabody, MA - JEOL offers a new point-and-shoot navigation system that makes finding precise locations on a sample both fast and easy for SEM and EPMA users. The Stage Navigation System combines Stage Navigation Software with an externally-mounted 3 Megapixel CMOS color digital Stage Navigation Camera that functions as a low magnification optical microscope. The [...]
May 31, 2011
ETTLLINGEN, Germany - Bruker today announced the completion of a major multiple system order to Trakya Birlik, a Turkish Agricultural Cooperative. A total of 35 the Bruker minispec mq-one XL TD-NMR (time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance) seed analyzers were installed at Trakya Birlik's collection stations for sunflower seed harvesting. Trakya Birlik has been a Bruker customer [...]
May 30, 2011
Männedorf, Switzerland - The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today signed a major OEM agreement with a global leader in a fast growing field of diagnostics for the development and supply of a dedicated diagnostics instrument. Under the agreement, Tecan will develop and supply an instrument to be used in conjunction with diagnostic tests [...]
Roche Applied Science and TIB Molbiol offer Assay Solution for Rapid EHEC Identification
May 30, 2011
PENZBERG, Germany - With the recent outbreak in Europe of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), Roche Applied Science (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and TIB Molbiol are providing scientists with complementary technologies that can be used for the rapid identification and detection of EHEC. As of the second week of May 2011, there has been a [...]

