Precision BioSciences Awarded Over $3 Million from Four Government Grants

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina - Precision BioSciences, Inc., today announced that it has been awarded over $3 million across four government grants. These grants were each awarded to Precision during the 4th Quarter of 2010 and came from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Treasury Department, the National Institute of Health, and [...]

WaferGen and Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg (IBBL) Sign Strategic Agreement

Fremont, Calif., and Luxembourg - WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTCBB:WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, and the Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg (IBBL) today announced an agreement to establish a strategic relationship that will expand the use of the WaferGen SmartChip Real-Time PCR system throughout Europe and advance personalized medicine. The agreement includes: •The [...]

Danaher CEO Provides Updated Fourth Quarter 2010 Guidance and Initiates 2011 Outlook

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2010 -- At an institutional investor and analyst meeting held in New York today, Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) commented on the performance outlook of the company for the balance of 2010 and 2011. President and Chief Executive Officer H. Lawrence Culp, Jr. announced that the company has raised its fourth quarter 2010 [...]

Akonni Awarded National Science Grant to Investigate Feasibility of Manufacturing Lab-on-a-Film Microarray Device

Reel-to-reel manufacturing has potential to substantially reduce costs of producing highly multiplexed molecular tests Frederick, MD - Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and plans to market sophisticated molecular testing devices for diagnosing infectious diseases and human genetic disorders, announced today the receipt of a $150,000 Phase I Grant from the National [...]

Regions that Correlate with Cell Viability Identified Using Data Produced by the Beckman Coulter Multisizer

Biotechnology Progress Paper Details Hidden Information in Cell Size Distributions ORANGE COUNTY, CALIF. - In a paper published in the November/December 2010 issue of Biotechnology Progress (Vol. 26, No. 6) the authors use the large amounts of data generated by Beckman Coulter’s Multisizer COULTER COUNTER to infer significant and detailed information about cells infected with [...]

Epitomics Signs Antibody Development Agreement with the National Cancer Institute

Burlingame, CA - Epitomics and NCI to Develop Novel Antibodies Using Epitomics Technology Epitomics, Inc., a biotechnology company commercializing the next generation of antibodies based on its groundbreaking Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody (RabMAb®) technology, today announced that the Company has signed a contract with SAIC Frederick, Inc., operating under contract with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) [...]

New Business Win Is Perfect Chemistry For Science Warehouse

Science Warehouse, one of the fastest growing companies in the e-business sector, has won a major new contract with leading international group of laboratories, Eurofins Scientific. Science Warehouse, one of the fastest growing companies in the e-business sector, has won a major new contract with leading international group of laboratories, Eurofins Scientific. The agreement sees [...]

Picarro, Inc. Moves to New R&D and Production Facility

Picarro, the maker of the world’s leading instruments for carbon, water and nitrogen cycle measurement, today announced the company is moving to new state-of-the-art manufacturing and R&D facilities in Santa Clara, California. The move is part of Picarro’s rapid expansion into new product lines and new business verticals, as well as an ongoing expansion of [...]

X-Rite Receives Credit Rating Upgrades from both Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ:XRIT) today announced that both Moody's Investors Service (Moody’s) and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) recently upgraded their respective corporate credit ratings on X-Rite. Moody's upgraded X-Rite’s corporate family rating to B2 from B3, and the rating on the first lien senior secured credit facilities to B1 from [...]

Agilent Technologies’ Target Enrichment System Now Supports 454 Life Sciences Next-Generation Sequencing Platform

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its SureSelect Target Enrichment System now supports the 454 Life Sciences next-generation sequencing platform, boosting efficiency and cost-effectiveness of research by enabling users to sequence just genomic regions of interest rather than entire genomes. "The SureSelect Target Enrichment Kits are now optimized and [...]

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