April 27, 2011
HAWTHORNE, Calif. - OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that its security division, Rapiscan Systems, has been awarded a pan-European contract valued at approximately $12 million by DHL, one of the world’s leading logistics and air cargo companies. The [...]
April 27, 2011
Bridgewater, NJ - LABVANTAGE today announced that a global contract research organization (CRO) has selected LABVANTAGE Risk Free BioBanking Solution to support its research and development service operations. Under this agreement, LABVANTAGE will implement its out-of-the-box BioBanking Solution within a guaranteed, definite duration and fixed costs. The CRO is headquartered in the United States with [...]
AvantorT Performance Materials to Acquire POCH S.A. from Kulczyk Holding
April 26, 2011
Phillipsburg, New Jersey - AvantorT Performance Materials announced a definitive agreement to acquire POCH S.A. from Kulczyk. Completion of the sale is dependent on obtaining the necessary clearance from the Polish competition authority, and is subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Avantor Performance Materials, formerly Mallinckrodt Baker, manufactures and [...]
SeraCare Life Sciences Announces Expansion of Cellular Product Line
April 26, 2011
MILFORD, Mass. - SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRLS) announced today the addition of differentiated Cryo-M Human Monocytes to their AccuCell™ peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) portfolio. SeraCare’s Cryo-M cells provide researchers with a high quality, specialized and unstimulated cell line to study gene expression, immune and inflammatory responses. This product is manufactured from standardized, [...]
April 26, 2011
WOLFENBÜTTEL, Germany & BEVERLY, Mass. - BIOBASE announced its launch of a new custom annotation tool designed to aid in functional annotation of next generation sequences from uncharacterized genomes. The BioKnowledge Transfer (BKT) tool, part of the PROTEOMETM product, enables researchers to input novel protein sequences and easily extract functional information based on those sequences. [...]
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Announces £25 Million ($41 Million) Fundraising
April 26, 2011
OXFORD, United Kingdom - Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., the UK-based developers of nanopore technology for the direct, electronic analysis of single molecules, today announced that it has raised £25 million ($41 million) in new funding via a private placement of ordinary shares in the Company. The funds will support further development, external technology validation and [...]
Hitachi High- Technologies and Techcomp Extend Their Alliance Agreement in PRC & Asian Markets
April 26, 2011
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO:8036, Hitachi High-Tech), a cutting-edge technology company of Science & Medical Systems, Techcomp Holdings Ltd (SGX:T43, Techcomp), China's leading company for highly advanced scientific and laboratory equipment, and have announced that they have renewed the captioned agreement for a period of 5 years. Under this agreement, Hitachi High-Tech will cooperate with Techcomp [...]
April 26, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) today announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market Xpert® Flu. The diagnostic test, which runs on Cepheid's GeneXpert® System, simultaneously detects and differentiates Influenza A, Influenza B, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus in about one hour. "With Xpert Flu, Cepheid [...]
April 26, 2011
AMSBIO has announced the launch of Alvetex® - a unique cell culture scaffold that, for the first time, enables genuine 3D cell culture to be grown routinely and cost-effectively. Already successfully applied to numerous applications including drug toxicity models with liver cells, skin raft assays and bone remodeling studies - Alvetex® provides a stable and [...]
New Software for Efficient Process Control in Food Production
April 26, 2011
Goettingen – Sartorius Mechatronics has released new software for monitoring and control of complex production processes in the food industry. This software, called Sartorius ProControl@Enterprise, enables food producers to monitor all production parameters in virtually real time and, if any non-conforming items are detected, intervene in the production process to take immediate corrective action. As [...]
