May 19, 2011
BALTIMORE - BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), today announced the U.S. launch of the BD MAX™ for use as an open system. BD MAX is the first and only fully automated, bench-top molecular system designed to perform a broad range of molecular tests. This includes in vitro diagnostic [...]
Cinven to Sell Phadia to Thermo Fisher for €2.47 billion
May 19, 2011
European private equity firm, Cinven, today announces that it has reached an agreement to sell Phadia Group ("the Company"), the leading in-vitro allergy diagnostics company based in Uppsala (Sweden), to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) for an enterprise value of €2.47 billion. Having identified the diagnostic testing sector as a segment with strong growth [...]
LABSCO to Distribute Cepheid GeneXpert® Systems and Tests
May 19, 2011
LOUISVILLE, K.Y. - Laboratory Supply Company (LABSCO), the largest privately held supplier of diagnostic instrumentation and clinical laboratory products to hospitals, physician office laboratories, reference labs and other non-acute care settings in the United States, announced today it has entered into an agreement with Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) to become Cepheid's exclusive distribution partner for its [...]
bioMérieux Becomes the World Leader in Food Testing with AES Laboratoire Acquisition
May 19, 2011
Marcy l’Etoile, France - bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, has signed an agreement to acquire AES Laboratoire, a leading French group, specialized in industrial microbiological control, for 183 million euros. This will be bioMérieux’s ninth acquisition in five years and its third in the area of industrial applications. Founded [...]
Affymetrix Adds New Tools for Targeted Genotyping Market to Accelerate Disease Studies
May 19, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today launched new Axiom(TM) myDesign(TM) Targeted Genotyping (TG) Arrays for the targeted genotyping market, enabling researchers to study mutations in disease pathways and characterize gene-gene interactions. This latest advancement allows researchers to design custom arrays to genotype 1,500 to 2.6 million markers per sample and rapidly transition from [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Broadens Portfolio of Single-use Laboratory Products
May 18, 2011
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has acquired Sterilin Ltd., a leading provider of consumable products for microbiology, life science and clinical laboratories. The acquisition includes a broad portfolio of single-use laboratory products used in sample collection, storage and analysis, including petri dishes, specimen [...]
Affymetrix Releases New Applied Research Arrays Designed with Scientific Leaders
May 18, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced the availability of multiple genomic microarray tools that will further enable scientists in the applied research field. The company is updating, developing, and manufacturing organism arrays in collaboration with leading scientific communities so that researchers in areas such as animal breeding, crop science, and microbial genetics [...]
May 18, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that NIMGenetics S.L. of Madrid has achieved Certified Service Provider (CSP) status for genomic research using Agilent SurePrint comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) and CGH/SNP microarrays. "We are very proud to become the first Agilent CSP in Spain," said Dr. Juan Cruz Cigudosa, NIMGenetics chief [...]
May 18, 2011
Glasgow, Scotland - Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd, a world leading provider of trace level detection technologies based on the exploitation of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS), for research and molecular diagnostics applications, today announced that it has concluded an exclusive licence agreement to a patent on nucleic acid sequence [...]
Bibby Scientific Ltd Acquires Electrothermal Engineering Ltd
May 18, 2011
As of May 17th 2011, Bibby Scientific Ltd, one of the UK's leading broad based manufacturers of laboratory products, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Electrothermal Engineering Ltd from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, the world leader in serving science. Electrothermal, an Essex based company founded in 1941, is a specialist in precisely controlled heating [...]

