HTG Announces Appointments of John Wineman and Thomas Vasicek, Ph.D.

HTG Announces Appointments of John Wineman as Vice President New Business Development–Western Region and Thomas Vasicek, Ph.D. as Vice President Clinical Programs and Product Innovation TUCSON, Ariz. - HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™), today announced the appointments of John Wineman as Vice President New Business Development, Western Region and Thomas [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands ThermoFlex Recirculating Chiller Series

Thermo Scientific Neslab ThermoFlex 24000 Offers Increased Cooling Capacity MILFORD, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its Thermo Scientific NESLAB ThermoFlex Series of Recirculating Chillers. The ThermoFlex 24000 is the latest addition to the product platform and has a cooling capacity of 24,000 watts [...]

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. [...]

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