MOCON Announces Strategic Minority Equity Investment
January 21, 2010
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.
January 21, 2010
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
January 21, 2010
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
January 21, 2010
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
January 21, 2010
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
January 21, 2010
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
January 21, 2010
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 [...]
Hettich Centrifuges Issues a North America and Canada Recall of Plastic Hematocrit Rotors
January 21, 2010
BEVERLY, Mass. -- Hettich Centrifuges, Beverly, MA, is initiating a North America and Canada recall of 2050 and 2076 plastic hematocrit rotors that are used in combination with the Mikro 12-24, Mikro 20, Haematokrit 20 and Haematokrit 24 bench top plastic centrifuges. These plastic rotors have the potential to break apart resulting in pieces of [...]
Illumina’s Latest Sequencing System to be Installed in the Constance Laboratories
January 21, 2010
Konstanz / b3c newswire / – GATC Biotech today announced the purchase of Illumina’s new HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform, which has officially been launched last week. This latest acquisition will further strengthen GATC Biotech’s current fleet of three GA IIx. Initially, the company will employ the HiSeq 2000 to human genome sequencing projects from its [...]
Porvair Sciences Ltd. Announced New Sterile 96-well Shallow Polypropylene Plate
January 21, 2010
Porvair Sciences Ltd. has announced a new sterile 96-well Shallow Polypropylene Plate that offers a capacity of just 150µL per well reducing reagent costs and round well bottoms to ensure good mixing. Supplied sterile and DNA/RNA free in bags of 25, packed four to a case of 100, the new plates are an ideal tool [...]
