Sigma-Aldrich New Mobile Device Website Puts Scientific Information at the Fingertips of the Research Community

ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced today the launch of its new mobile device website, designed specifically for access by smart phones and other mobile devices. The site (https://www.sigma-aldrich.com/mobile) brings Sigma-Aldrich's rich scientific content directly to the growing researcher community that prefers to communicate using mobile platforms. The site, optimized for iPhone®, iPod Touch® [...]

Applied Biosystems Forensic DNA Kit Approved for Use by the National DNA Index System

Addition of DNA Profiles to FBI Database Expected to Increase Links of Potential Suspects to Crimes CARLSBAD, Calif.--Applied Biosystems, part of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced that its AmpF?STR® MiniFiler™ PCR Amplification Kit has been approved for inclusion in the National DNA Index System (NDIS), a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation database that [...]

BioTek Instruments Achieves Record Sales Growth, Community Awards in 2009

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek Instruments, Inc., a leader in microplate instrumentation technology, announced 13% sales growth for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009, which significantly outpaced the overall laboratory instrumentation market, which contracted during the same period. An extremely strong December performance contributed to a record-breaking fourth quarter, and year, for the Company. [...]

MOCON Announces Strategic Minority Equity Investment

MINNEAPOLIS--MOCON, Inc. (Nasdaq:MOCO - News) today announced that it had completed its acquisition of a minority equity interest in Luxcel Biosciences Limited (Luxcel), Cork, Ireland, effective January 15, 2010. MOCON invested €2,500,000 (approximately $3,625,000) for a 16.9 percent equity interest in Luxcel. Luxcel was founded in 2002, as a spin out company from University College [...]

TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. Announces Distribution Agreement with Nacalai USA, Inc.

SAN DIEGO -- TriLink BioTechnologies (TriLink), has entered into an agreement with Nacalai USA, Inc., a San Diego based manufacturing and marketing company, for the distribution of TriLink's modified nucleic acid products in Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. "With TriLink's unique high quality product offering and Nacalai's key role as a bridge to bringing [...]

The Automation Partnership Appoints Phillip Sefton as New Commercial Director

CAMBRIDGE, England--The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leader in the design and development of innovative automation for life science applications, today announced the appointment of Phillip Sefton as its new Commercial Director. Phillip’s vast experience in sales and marketing, together with his outstanding management skills, will complement TAP’s strengths, enabling him to take TAP to [...]

Agilent Technologies’ Acquisition of Varian, Inc. Cleared by European Commission

SANTA CLARA and PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) and Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) today announced that they have been granted conditional antitrust clearance from the European Commission for Agilent's proposed acquisition of Varian. As part of the European Commission's clearance decision, Agilent and Varian have committed to sell: - Varian's laboratory [...]

Commission clears proposed acquisition of Varian by Agilent, subject to conditions

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Varian Inc by Agilent Technologies Inc, both of the US, by way of purchase of shares. The decision is conditional upon the divestment of Agilent's entire micro/portable gas chromatography instrument business and Varian's entire laboratory gas chromatography, triple quadrupole gas chromatography-mass [...]

Wyatt Technology Demonstrates SEC-MALS Capabilities

Studying Interactions of Tumor Suppressor p53 with S100 Proteins SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA -- Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in instruments for absolute macromolecular characterization, announces that its light scattering system has been selected by the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering to investigate the interactions of the p53 tumor suppressor gene with S100 protein. Wyatt's [...]

IO Informatics, Inc. announces an agreement with the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine

BERKELEY, CA - IO Informatics, Inc. announces an agreement to license its Sentient Suite of Life Science & Healthcare software to the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine. “We are pleased to have the Sentient system deployed at the FDA,” stated Robert Stanley, President and CEO of IO Informatics. “Sentient is a powerful data integration and [...]

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