Pall Corporation Completes $500 Million Credit Agreement
July 14, 2010
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. - Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) today announced that it has entered into a new $500 million five-year revolving credit facility. The new facility replaces the Company's $500 million revolver that was due to expire in June 2011. This transaction follows on the recent refinancing of the Company's $280 million senior notes due in [...]
Millipore Corporation and BioOutsource Ltd. to Collaborate
July 14, 2010
Agreement brings together strengths of two global leaders in biosafety testing service industry Millipore Corporation, a leading provider of technologies, tools and services for the global life science industry, jointly announced with BioOutsource Ltd. that they have formed a strategic alliance. The industry knowledge, scientific strength and modern facilities of the two companies combine to [...]
Labsphere Opens New Manufacturing Facility in China
July 14, 2010
Labsphere ready to serve growing Chinese light measurement market North Sutton, New Hampshire – Labsphere, a global leader in light metrology, has expanded its presence in Asia with the opening of a new sales and service facility in Shanghai, China. Operating under the name Shanghai Lanfei Optical Equipment Co. Ltd., the wholly owned foreign enterprise [...]
Modelling The Genetic Circuitry Of Cell-To-Cell Communication
July 14, 2010
Utilizing Fluidigm Corporation's Dynamic Array™ and Digital Array™ integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), Stanford University researchers to have discovered a much larger spectrum of differences between individual cells than has previously been demonstrated. Among these differences are the communication capabilities that emerge from the interactions of genetic circuitry that mediates cell-to-cell communication. The university also used [...]
July 14, 2010
Uppsala, Sweden – Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading supplier of tools and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, announced the introduction of ExploraSep 96-well screening plates to identify optimum scavengers. The 4 different screening plates deliver 128 selective resins based on high-performance, Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs). Biotage provides professional MIPs technical consultation, information on additional [...]
Zygem Introduces Breakthrough Microbial Fingerprinting Technology
July 14, 2010
DNA Fingerprinting Assays Run on Integrated ZyGEM/MicroLab Sample-to-Answer Platform Have Transformational Potential for Profiling Unknown Bacterial Samples Has Potential to Identify Up to 30 Different Bacterial Infectious Agents in Challenging Samples in Less than One Hour, a Dramatic Improvement over Current Methods Charlottesville, VA and Hamilton, New Zealand - ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., has introduced its [...]
World’s First Damage-Less Cell Sorter Suitable for Human iPS Cells will be Available Worldwide
July 14, 2010
Furukawa Electric (TOKYO:5801)(ISIN:JP3827200001) have commercialized the world's first damage-less cell sorter (PERFLOW Sort), an instrument for analyzing and sorting living cells, especially human induced pluripotential stem (iPS) cells and human embryonic stem (ES) cells with inducible pluripotency to differentiate into various cell types. Different from the conventional sorting methods including ultrasonic wave, charge and high [...]
Stratophase Move to Larger Facility
July 14, 2010
Romsey, UK – Following substantially increased interest in its SpectroSens optical microchip platform technology, Stratophase - a specialist in real-time chemical and biochemical measurement and detection - has doubled its sensor chip manufacturing capability and moved to a larger site. Three times larger than the old building, Stratophase’s new facility has been fitted with offices, [...]
Pacific Biosciences Announces $109 Million Financing
July 14, 2010
Series F Includes $50 Million Strategic Investment from Gen-Probe Menlo Park, Calif. – Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing a disruptive technology platform for real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution, today announced it has completed a Series F round of financing in the amount of $109 million. The financing round includes a [...]
Tecan Automated Solutions Accelerate Crop Improvement
July 14, 2010
Scientists at the Institute of Plant Breeding at the University of Kiel, Germany, are using a Tecan Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstation to perform high throughput DNA purification and normalization, for the development of TILLING® (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) programs for rape seed and sugar beet. Tecan has worked closely with Macherey-Nagel to [...]
