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 [...]

VIENNA--Prior to the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases on April 10-13, 2010 in Vienna, Bruker Daltonics and KIESTRA Lab Automation announce an expanded partnership covering co-marketing and cross-selling of their respective technologies for microbiology routine laboratories, as well as a joint research and development program for interfacing [...]

Exeter Analytical offers laboratories involved with elemental microanalysis a single source for top quality, competitively priced CHN/O/S consumables and supplies irrespective of the analyser they use. Specialising in CHN microanalysis for over 25 years the company has developed unique manufacturing methods that ensure the performance of its consumables and supplies is second to none. With [...]

TUCSON, Arizona--HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™), today announced it has signed a contract with Arizona State University to provide gene expression assay and development services as part of a multi-institutional research program. As the core gene expression technology in the program, HTG’s qNPA technology will be used to build tests [...]

Reagents expected to help accelerate drug discovery process for the research community ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced today that it has signed an agreement with New Mexico Highlands University through its licensee, Highlands Stable Isotope Corp. (HSI), to exclusively distribute a novel set of patented stable isotope labeled synthetic reagents (www.sigma-aldrich.com/sinext). Under the [...]