Compendia Bioscience Awarded $1.3 Million in SBIR Fast Track Funds

Ann Arbor, Mich. - Compendia Bioscience, Inc. today announced the award of $1.3 million in SBIR Fast Track funds to incorporate micro-RNA data and analyses into the Oncomine platform. Cancer is a highly complex disease in which all of the causes and effects are not well understood. In recent years a new type of non-coding [...]

Bruker to Ring NASDAQ Opening Bell on Company’s 50th Anniversary

BILLERICA, Mass. - Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) announced today that its management team will ring the Opening Bell at the NASDAQ Stock Market on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. EDT at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square. Bruker Corporation is a leading provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for [...]

GE Intelligent Platforms Collaborates With US Environmental Protection Agency

Goal is to increase the effectiveness of the municipal drinking water distribution network for delivery of better quality water while using 10% to 15% less energy CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - GE Intelligent Platforms (NYSE:GE) today announced the signing of a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Risk Management Research [...]

PerkinElmer Agrees to Sell Illumination and Detection Solutions Business to Veritas Capital for Approximately $500 Million

WALTHAM, Massachusetts - PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it has agreed to sell its Illumination and Detection Solutions (IDS) business to Veritas Capital Fund III, L.P., a New York-based private equity firm, for approximately $500 million in cash [...]

Emory University Orders Two JEOL Cryo-TEMs for Expanding the Electron Microscopy Core

Peabody, Mass. - JEOL USA, a leading supplier of high resolution Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEMs) for biological and materials research, announces that Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has selected two JEOL TEMs for the Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core (RPAIEMC). The two TEMs, one operating at 120kV and the other at 200kV, will [...]

Spheroid Imaging Mountant

Shepshed, LEICS., UK - The thermo-reversible mountant CyGEL™ (Biostatus Ltd., UK) enables high resolution imaging of live 3D tumor spheroids cultured in low-adherence conditions and without fixation or cytospin centrifugation. A recent paper by Fredika M. Robertson, et al., Imaging and Analysis of 3D Tumor Spheroids Enriched for a Cancer Cell Phenotype. J Biomol Screen. [...]

Golden Helix Partners with CloudScientific to Provide Genetic Analysis Software in China

Bozeman, MT - Golden Helix, Inc., a global leader in genetic analysis solutions, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with CloudScientific, a Chinese life sciences software company, to act as a distributor of the company’s analytic services and proprietary software, the SNP & Variation Suite (SVS). The software offers several modules to [...]

Ensign-Bickford Insdustries, Inc. Acquires Envirologix Inc.

Simsbury, CT, - As part of its business growth and diversification strategy, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. “EBI” announced today that its subsidiary, EB Analytics, Inc. has acquired EnviroLogix Inc. (“ELIX”). ELIX is a Portland, Maine-based developer and manufacturer of rapid QuickStixTM and QuickScanTM agricultural test kits and readers. The terms of the transaction were not released. [...]

Biotage Introduces Resolux™ Peptides Purification HPLC Columns

Charlotte, NC USA – Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading supplier of tools and technology for medicinal and analytical chemistry, has launched a new range of HPLC columns optimized for peptide purification. The Resolux line was introduced during the ACS Fall 2010 National Meeting & Exposition in Boston, Massachusetts USA and will be premiered at the [...]

Fujifilm to Enter Into Capital Partnership with Japan Tissue Engineering

Accelerating R&D of regenerative medicine*1 materials to promote business application FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO: Shigetaka Komori) has decided to accept the third-party allocation of new shares worth 4 billion yen from Japan Tissue Engineering Co., Ltd.(President: Yosuke Ozawa; “J-TEC” hereinafter), the provider of tissue-engineered regenerative medical materials in Japan. After the allocation, Fujifilm is [...]

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