LA JOLLA, Calif.--CHI-California Healthcare Institute announced today that Paul Hastings, president and chief executive officer of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, and Ken Berger, president of the Specialty Diagnostics business for Thermo Fisher Scientific, have been elected to its board of directors. CHI is a non-profit public policy research organization, representing leading California academic institutions, biotechnology, medical device, [...]

Non-Animal Recombinant Proteins for Cell Culture & Tissue Engineering Applications AMSBIO has announced a new range of recombinant proteins that can substitute extracellular matrix proteins that are currently extracted from mouse sarcoma. The Mussel Adhesive Protein based matrix (MAPTrix®) ECM line of products are coating reagents with genetically incorporated bioactive peptides which mimic the extracellular [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--T-Ray Science, Inc. (TSX VENTURE:THZ) ("T-Ray" or the "Company") an emerging leader in the field of TeraHertz ("THz") research, is pleased to announce that it has granted a Licensing Agreement to Toptica Photonics, Inc. ("Toptica"). Toptica is a global market leader for THz sources and their applications, offering laser-based time and frequency domain [...]

Maximum Staff Safety and Productivity RUNCORN, Cheshire. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that Histocenter-Scandinavian Center for Histotechnology Inc. (Histocenter), the only private histopathology laboratory in Sweden, has selected the Thermo Scientific Excelsior ES tissue processor to facilitate xylene-free tissue processing without microwaves and excessive heat. The Excelsior [...]

Advanced Imaging Technology Systems Purchased with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funds Second Order Placed under $173 Million IDIQ Contract - Total Orders Received To Date Are Approximately $40M HAWTHORNE, Calif.--OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced [...]

TUCSON, Ariz.--HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™), today announced that Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., President & Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 2001 Nobel Laureate, and Timothy Yeatman, M.D., Executive Vice President, Co-Founder & C.S.O. of M2Gen, have agreed to join HTG’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). “HTG’s technology is perfectly suited to [...]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL - News) today announced that its Board of Directors elected Amy E. Alving, Ph.D as Director effective April 23, 2010. The election followed the Board's vote to amend the Company's bylaws to increase the number of directors to twelve. Dr. Alving, 47, is the Chief Technology Officer and a Senior [...]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass.-- -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!pbio/quotes/nls/pbio (PBIO 1.68, -0.08, -4.50%) ("PBI" or the "Company") today announced that it has received $1,229,650 from the exercise of 98,372 15-Month Preferred Stock Purchase Warrants (the "15-Month Warrants"). The exercises represent 100% of all outstanding and unexercised 15-Month Warrants that could be exercised after the March 30, [...]

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), has launched Laboratory Asset Management Assessment (LAMA), a consultative service for optimized laboratory asset management. LAMA evaluates a service program by obtaining information about current expenditures, asset inventory and quality of service; it identifies inefficiencies, cost and resource redundancy as well as missing information and [...]

WOBURN, MA -- Innov-X Systems and Steinert have entered into an OEM agreement to market a new high speed, x-ray fluorescence-based (XRF) sorting system that will effectively identify and remove copper containing material, such as “meatballs”, from ferrous scrap. This new technology will be a welcome solution for metal recyclers worldwide who have long been [...]