New Contract Services for Nanoparticles and Surface Dissolution

Paraytec Ltd (York, UK) announce the launch of a new contract services business. Dr Mebs Surve, Business Development Director for Paraytec explained ‘Our new contract analysis and contract research business is based on Paraytec’s ground breaking technologies for sizing biopharmaceuticals and nanoparticles and also for surface dissolution imaging. These services are designed for customers who [...]

PositiveID Corporation Presents Offer to Acquire Digital Angel Corporation at 60 Percent Premium

Complementary Technologies Would Create New Revenue Opportunities and Leader in Unique Medical and Veterinary Products Including Rapid Medical Testing for Humans, Animals and Food Safety Applications Merger is Expected to be Accretive to PositiveID Stockholders With $35-$40 Million in Combined Revenue DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:PSID) announced today that [...]

Cellular Dynamics International, ACEA Biosciences, and Roche Applied Sciences Cooperate

Evaluating iCell Cardiomyocytes on the xCELLigence System Madison, Wisc. - Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) announced today their partnership with ACEA Biosciences to bring early and accurate prediction of potential cardiotoxic side effects to the drug discovery process. The partnership combines CDI’s induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived heart cells, iCell™ Cardiomyocytes, with the xCELLigence™ RTCA System. [...]

Digital Angel Receives Unsolicited Proposal for Aquisition

SO. ST. PAUL, MN - Digital Angel (NASDAQ: DIGA), an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, today confirmed that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from PositiveID Corporation (NASDAQ: PSID) that, subject to due diligence and other unstated conditions, PSID is prepared to make an offer to [...]

Universal Sensors Show Potential for a 5 minute Test to Detect Trace Levels of Multiple Illegal Drugs

Earlier this year, the North Review of Drink and Drug Driving Law highlighted the value of a spit test to catch drug drivers. Testing for drugs in saliva is very challenging, but findings announced today by Universal Sensors Ltd (Cambridge, UK) show that its Vantix biosensor technology can detect trace quantities of both cocaine and [...]

Waters and Hitachi High Technologies America Enter into Distribution Agreement for Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Consumables

Hitachi High Technologies America Customers to Benefit from Access to Industry-Leading Sample Preparation and Liquid Chromatography Columns MILFORD, Mass. - Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) and Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. ("HTA") have entered into an agreement granting HTA the ability to sell Waters(R) sample preparation and liquid chromatography (LC) columns to Hitachi users in North [...]

Global NIR Forage Calibrations

Perten Instruments offers new global forage calibrations for the DA 7200 NIR Analysis System. Calibrations encompass fresh and dried forages that provide a complete nutritional profile of forage quality parameters. With an analysis time of only 6 seconds, the DA 7200 and the new calibrations offer many benefits for forage analysis. Unlike other NIR instruments, [...]

FLIR Advanced Thermal Solutions (ATS) Group has announced the release of its new FLIR SC655

A high-resolution uncooled infrared camera designed specifically for scientific and research and development applications. Affordable, compact, and powerful, the FLIR SC655 provides provides both high frame rates and full 640 × 480 imagery enabling capture of over 300,000 pixels of accurate temperature measurement data in a single image. The FLIR SC655 is the world's first [...]

Cytori Extends Distribution Agreement with GE Healthcare; Key Focus on Research Market

SAN DIEGO - Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYTX) has extended the term and modified the focus of its current distribution agreement with GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare's sales rights allow its sales force to sell Cytori technology in the research markets in select European markets and the US. In turn, Cytori has co-exclusive sales rights into the [...]

CDEX Announces New Management, New Focus and New Future

TUCSON, AZ - CDEX Inc. (OTCBB: CEXI) (www.cdexinc.com)We are pleased to announce that Jeff Brumfield has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of CDEX Inc. He brings back to the Company Dr. Wade Poteet as the Chief Science Officer who will be overseeing the development of all new [...]

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