Life Technologies acquires 58 % of GENEART shares via it´s German subsidiary Applied Biosystems Deutschland GmbH Public tender offer for the remaining shares planned Cooperation Agreement concluded with Life Technologies Regensburg -- The founders of GENEART AG Prof. Dr. Ralf Wagner, Prof. Dr. Hans Wolf, Dr. Marcus Graf, and individual members of the management as [...]

Porvair Filtration Group has announced that its operating divisions - Porvair Technology, MF&T, Filters for Industry, Microfiltrex, and its US operation (formally Omnifilter and Manufacturing Inc.) will increasingly focus on trading under a single corporate brand - Porvair Filtration Group. Tom Liddell, Managing Director of Porvair Filtration Group stated, "For nearly 50 years we have [...]

PerkinElmer’s Facilitates Screening of Complex G-Protein Coupled Receptors for Therapeutic Research Global leader in assay technologies enhances high throughput screening of GPCRs used in researching potential drug candidates for critical disease states PHOENIX--PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of its new [...]

Flow cells combine micro-engineering technology with traditional material processing Royston, UK -- Dolomite has extensive experience in material processing and is unique in combining traditional manufacturing techniques with micro-engineering expertise. Through an in-depth understanding and innovative exploitation of material properties that are important for micro-scale experimentation, Dolomite has developed and manufactured a range of standard [...]

New Distribution Agreement With Boehringer Ingelheim Offers Sigma-Aldrich Customers Expanded Biodegradable Polylactide Polymers for Biomaterials Research - RESOMER(R) Biodegradable Polymer Line can Support all Phases of the Drug Discovery and Development Pipeline ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich® (NASDAQ:SIAL) announced today it has entered into a distribution agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, [...]

Multi-View, High-Throughput, Drive-Through Screening System Purchased for for Checkpoint Security at a Strategic Facility BILLERICA, Mass.--American Science and Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASEI - News) (AS&E®), a leader in X-ray detection technology, announced today that NATO C3 Agency has awarded AS&E a multimillion dollar follow-on order for a multi-view Z Portal® X-ray screening system to deploy [...]

Biochrom launches the Biochrom 30+ Series of amino acid analyzers – the gold standard in dedicated amino acid analysis. Based on ion exchange chromatography with post-column derivatization of samples using ninhydrin, these instruments accurately identify and quantify free amino acids, as well as the amino acid composition of proteins and peptides. The application areas are [...]

BILLERICA, Mass.--Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), today announced that Chris van Ingen has been elected Executive Chairman of the BEST board of directors. Furthermore, the board has been expanded from six to seven members through the addition of newly elected independent director Dr. Wolf-Dieter Emmerich. [...]

Acquisition Adds to AMETEK's High-End Elemental Analysis Capabilities PAOLI, Pa. -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that it has acquired Imago Scientific Instruments, a privately held manufacturer of 3D atom probes, based in Madison, WI. "Imago Scientific Instruments significantly broadens our technical capabilities in differentiated, high-end analytical instrumentation and is an excellent addition to [...]

IRVINE, Calif. -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC) an alternative energy company with subsidiary operations in security technology, announced that its security technology subsidiary, Ionfinity LLC, will receive an additional $786,000 in funding from the U.S. Navy under a previously awarded contract. The Company received notice that the U.S. Navy exercised an option to [...]