NanoString Rounds Out Commercial Management Team with New Vice Presidents of Sales, Marketing

SEATTLE - NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a complete solution for detecting and counting large sets of target molecules in biological samples, today announced it has rounded out its commercial management team with the hiring of Chris Grimley as Vice President of Marketing and Katherine Webster as Vice President of [...]

LGC Standards Partners with PRIMACYT to Improve Access to Hepatocytes for Drug Discovery Research

LGC Standards is delighted to announce the addition of the PRIMACYT range of in-vitro products and services to its portfolio of life science research and drug discovery products. PRIMACYT currently offers hepatocyte cells to the drug discovery research community throughout Europe and the partnership with LGC Standards will facilitate a wider distribution of these cells [...]

Takara Bio to Establish a Subsidiary for Manufacturing and Sales of Research Reagents in India

Takara Bio Inc. (Otsu, Japan) today announced that it has entered into agreement with DSS Imagetech Pvt., Ltd. (New Delhi, India) to establish a joint venture in India, which engage in sales and manufacturing of research reagents and scientific instruments. Takara bio group holds 51% stock share of the new company as its consolidated subsidiary. [...]

ASD Drives Efficiencies in Mining Exploration and Production Through Rapid, Non-Contact, Non-Destructive Analysis

BOULDER, Colo. - ASD, Inc., a global leader in high-performance analytical instrumentation for materials measurement will unveil instruments and solutions capabilities dedicated to mining exploration and production at the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Annual Convention in Denver, Feb. 27 through March 2. “ASD’s core reflectance spectroscopy technology is setting new standards for [...]

Anton Paar Launches Microwave Synthesis for the Kilo Lab

Anton Paar USA is proud to announce the release of the revolutionary new Masterwave BTRmicrowave synthesis system. Masterwave BTR is an innovative system that for the first time ever enables microwave synthesis protocols to be transferred to the scale-up or kilo lab. Fast, safe and efficient microwave heating can now produce kilogram amounts of pharmaceutical [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Extends Cash Tender Offer for Dionex Corporation

WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that its previously announced tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Dionex Corporation (NASDAQ: DNEX) for $118.50 per share in cash ("the Offer") has been extended and will now expire at 12:00 midnight, New York [...]

Diagnostic Advances in Cancer Research Utilizing Raman Molecular Imaging to Be Presented at USCAP

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Clinical researchers from Cornell Weil Medical School and University of Chicago Medical School will present research conducted on Raman Molecular Imaging's (RMI) ability to differentiate diagnostic dilemmas in lung and kidney tumors at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology's (USCAP) 100th Annual Meeting, Feb. 26-March 4 at the Henry B. [...]

OGT Awarded ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Accreditation, Signifying Technical Expertise

Oxford, UK - Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, today announced that its Genefficiency™ and CytoSure™ array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) services have been accredited as meeting ISO/IEC 17025:2005 international standards by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The award underlines the superior level of [...]

Luminex and Partners HealthCare Announce Collaboration Agreement

AUSTIN, Texas - Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq: LMNX) announced today that it has teamed with Partners HealthCare toward the discovery of novel biomarkers and development of clinical assays. This program will enable Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM) to develop novel molecular diagnostic assays based on biomarkers discovered within Partners HealthCare entities. These innovative [...]

$3.5 Million Life Technologies Grant Will Help Train, Certify Forensic Scientists at UNT Health Science Center

FORT WORTH, Texas - The Center for Human Identification at the UNT Health Science Center recently received a three-year $3.5 million grant from Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a leader in forensic DNA testing systems, to train researchers from around the world in forensic DNA analysis techniques. This first of its kind accelerated academic certification [...]

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