LANSING, Mich. -- Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG - News) announced today that Richard T. Crowder, Ph.D., was elected to Neogen's Board of Directors at the company's recent annual meeting of shareholders. Crowder has more than 40 years of experience in the food, agriculture, and trade industries and currently serves as an adjunct professor of agricultural [...]

FORT COLLINS, Colo.--In-Situ® Inc. announced today that the United States Environmental Protection Agency has granted nationwide approval to three In-Situ RDO® optical dissolved oxygen methods under the Alternate Test Procedure, or ATP, process. The In-Situ RDO methods are the only optical- or luminescence-based DO methods to pass the rigorous ATP approval process for measuring Biochemical [...]

Sunnyvale, CA—Dionex has released the AFC-3000 Automated Fraction Collector, a reliable and highly flexible fraction collector, ideally suited for preparative reversed-phase or normal-phase HPLC as well as purification of proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids. The AFC-3000 manages analytical and semipreparative to preparative flow rates, and collects fractions into a large variety of commonly used sample [...]

Gains Industry-leading Molecular Diagnostic Automation Platform FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX - News) today announced the completion of its acquisition of HandyLab, Inc., an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company that develops and manufactures molecular diagnostic assays and automation platforms. In May 2009, BD and HandyLab announced an exclusive agreement for [...]

MONTREAL, CANADA--ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. (ART) (TSX:ARA - News), a Canadian medical device company and a leader in optical molecular imaging products for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, announces that its strategic review process has culminated in ART entering into an agreement today with Dorsky Worldwide Corp. ("Dorsky") to restructure ART's balance sheet and [...]

Significant Improvements to the Genome Sequencer FLX System Including 1,000 bp Reads for 2010 BRANFORD, Conn.--454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) (Pink Sheets: RHHBY), announced today at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in Kissimmee, Florida a series of revolutionary developments which significantly expand the company’s high-throughput sequencing portfolio. Addressing the growing [...]

Offering Customized Chemistry and Biology Programs for Drug Discovery Research - Caliper Discovery Alliances & Services Offerings Expand to Include Medicinal Chemistry Tools for Lead Compound Optimization HOPKINTON, Mass. -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP - News), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced a [...]

BURLINGTON, Mass. and BERLIN -- caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced today the opening of its US-based subsidiary based in Burlington, MA. caprotec Inc. will be responsible for North American sales, marketing and support of caprotec's proprietary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) technology and its related products. caprotec is partnering with Genovative Solutions, LLC in the area [...]

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 that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems, has been awarded a contract by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, the mass transit system set up by the Government of India and [...]

FREMONT, Calif. -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced a new, innovative service for gene-expression profiling of thousands of genes using the SmartChip(TM) Real-Time PCR System. By taking advantage of the SmartChip Real-Time PCR system, WaferGen will offer universities, pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies a [...]