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 [...]

Fugro Enters Into an Exclusive Agreement with Carl Zeiss to Jointly Develop and Distribute RoqSCAN

Fugro Robertson today announced that it has signed an exclusive, world-wide development and distribution agreement with Carl Zeiss to develop and distribute RoqSCAN™. RoqSCAN is a real time, state-of-the-art, fully portable, quantitative and automated rock properties and mineralogical analyser that has been jointly developed by Fugro Robertson and Carl Zeiss for use at the conventional [...]

Scientific Industries Adds Two New Products to Its Benchtop Laboratory Products Line

BOHEMIA, N.Y. - Scientific Industries Inc. (OTCQB:SCND), a leader in the design and production of shakers and vortex mixers, including the world-renowned Vortex-Genie®, announced the launching of the Vortex-Genie Pulse, uniquely designed to offer true variable pulse mixing, and the Digital QuadMag Genie™, a digital four-place magnetic stirrer designed for general purpose laboratory applications. Both [...]

VWR International, LLC Acquires Trenka Industriebedarf Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H. in Austria

VIENNA, Austria - VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply and distribution company, has agreed to acquire the safety products distribution business of Trenka Industriebedarf Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H., subject to customary closing conditions. The parties anticipate completion of the transaction on or around May 1, 2011. "Trenka's product portfolio allows VWR to offer a broader [...]

Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd. and OptiGene Limited (United Kingdom) signed License Agreement on the licensing of LAMP technology

Tokyo, Japan - Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd. (Head office in Taito-ku, Tokyo, called as Eiken) and OptiGene Limited (Head office in Horsham, United Kingdom, called as OptiGene, Director?Mr. Michael Andreou) has signed a License Agreement to enter into the licensing of Eiken’s own innovative gene amplification technology (LAMP method) on March 31. OptiGene’s extensive knowledge [...]

Cambio celebrates 25 years of excellence and looks to Next Generation

Achieving 25 years at the forefront of Molecular Biology is a significant milestone for Cambio, a leading supplier of reagents and consumables for research. The company’s constant focus on the future continues with the addition of new products designed for Next Generation DNA and RNA sequencing. One of Cambio’s main suppliers is EPICENTRE® Biotechnologies, founded [...]

Abbott Introduces Hepatitis B Sequencing Test in Europe

Wiesbaden, Germany — Abbott Molecular announced today that it has received CE Marking (Conformité Européene) to market the Abbott HBV Sequencing test in the European Union. This molecular diagnostic test, developed to identify genomic sequences of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and help physicians monitor HBV infections, guide treatment decisions, and predict or discover drug [...]

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