Scott Garrett Joins Water Street Healthcare Partners

CHICAGO - Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic private equity firm focused exclusively on health care, announced today that Scott Garrett has joined the firm as an operating partner. Mr. Garrett, 61, the former chairman, president and chief executive officer of Beckman Coulter, Inc., brings to Water Street more than 35 years of experience leading [...]

Cognizant and Eagle Genomics to Work with Pistoia Alliance to Develop a Cloud-based Platform for Streamlining Sequence Services

LONDON - Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, and Eagle Genomics Ltd., a bioinformatics software company specializing in genomic data management and integration, today announced they are working with the Pistoia Alliance, Inc., a nonprofit, precompetitive alliance of life science companies and vendors, as one of the [...]

Exiqon Expands Its Distributor Network

Copenhagen, Denmark - Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX: EXQ), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the addition of two distributors to its existing network of distributors in response to an increase in product demand. Biomedica Medizinprodukte GmbH & Co KG (www.biomedica.co.at) will market Exiqon’s life sciences products in Czech Republic, Slovakia, [...]

ChemAxon Launches ‘Live’ Chemistry in Microsoft SharePoint(TM) With JChem for SharePoint Web Parts

BUDAPEST, Hungary - ChemAxon, a leading provider of chemistry software for life sciences, announces the release of JChem for SharePoint to fully enable chemistry within Microsoft's SharePoint(TM) platform. The launch includes Web Parts and Custom Lists for chemical editing, search and property prediction. The development has been in conjunction with pharmaceutical R&D partners. ChemAxon's JChem [...]

WHEATON Opens European Warehouse

Millville, NJ – Marking a dramatic shift from the way it has done business in the past, Wheaton, a leading provider of quality products and services for the laboratory research, diagnostic packaging, and specialty pharmaceutical industries, has begun shipping products to European customers from a new supply chain service provider located in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. [...]

Lonza and Roche Enter Into MycoTOOL® Distribution Agreement for Rapid Mycoplasma Testing Solutions

Basel, Switzerland - Lonza (SIX Swiss Exchange: LONN) and Roche (SWX: ROG) announced today that they have entered into a co-exclusive distribution agreement for the commercialization of Roche’s MycoTOOL® mycoplasma Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assays. PCR is a commonly used molecular biology technique that amplifies a single copy of nucleic acid to generate millions of [...]

Shrink Nanotechnologies Signs Binding Letter of Intent to Acquire 100% of Hawaii-Based Nanopoint, Inc.

IRVINE, Calif. - Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink") (OTC Markets: INKN), an innovative high technology company, announced today that it has executed a binding letter of intent to acquire 100% of Hawaii-based Nanopoint Inc. ("Nanopoint"), a biomedical instrumentation and microfluidics company with global distribution for its award-winning suites of life sciences products. The transaction highlights are: [...]

Cellectis Strengthens Management Team to Support Stem Cell Activities

Paris - Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), the Genome engineering specialist, has announced today the recruitment of three senior managers to support the development of Ectycell, its subsidiary dedicated to industrial applications of stem cells. •Edward Balbirnie, PhD, joins Ectycell as Chief Operations Officer. He has 23 years of international experience in the Biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, [...]

Easy-Read Precision Pharmacy Balances Improve Workflows, Safety

Greifensee, Switzerland - METTLER TOLEDO, world renowned for precise and easy-to-use scales, introduced a pharmacy-specific portfolio of precision balances today. The new portfolio encompasses two product lines: the PHS, or professional line; and the PHL, or portable line. Balances included in the METTLER TOLEDO pharmacy-specific portfolio support tasks pharmacists perform daily including cream, ointment and [...]

Cepheid Extends Rapid Molecular Diagnostics’ Leadership with FDA Clearance of Xpert Clostridium difficile/Epi

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert® C. difficile/Epi test. Cepheid's first Xpert C. difficile test has been available in the United States since July 2009. The test's unique combination of high sensitivity and rapid turnaround time [...]

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