Company continues to strengthen board with industry veterans FREMONT -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS - News), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced that Robert Coradini has joined the WaferGen Board of Directors. Mr. Coradini was most recently the President, New Ventures of Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group of [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Cell Biosciences, Inc. today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Alpha Innotech Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: APNO - News). The stockholders of Alpha Innotech have approved the transaction, and all regulatory and other conditions have been satisfied. Pursuant to the merger agreement announced on September 8, 2009, former Alpha [...]

OSI Systems Awarded Approximately $29 Million in Advanced Cargo and Customs Screening Contracts from U.S. Customs and Border Protection HAWTHORNE, Calif. -- OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications announced that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems, has received approximately $29 million in orders from the U.S. [...]

Berlin, JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce new electrochemical capabilities for their NanoWizard® AFM systems. Electrochemical experiments study redox reactions of substances at a solid-liquid interface. With atomic force microscopy, high-resolution images can be obtained in liquid as the electrochemical reaction [...]

Part of National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomics Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) Initiative Third contract awarded in NCI initiative to improve monoclonal antibody reagents for proteomics research Precision Antibody will develop high-quality, standardized, renewable monoclonal antibodies to 20 cancer-related target proteins COLUMBIA, Md. -- Precision Antibody(TM) has been selected as the antibody developer for a component [...]

Manchester, UK . RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems, today announces that it will exhibit at the Drug Delivery to the Lungs (DDL) annual conference, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, 9th -11th December 2009. RTS staff will be available on booth #44 to discuss your dry powder [...]

HAWTHORNE, Calif. -- OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications, announced today that the U.S. Customs & Border Protection (“CBP”) released a contract award notice for a $2.8 million order to OSI Systems’ Security division, Rapiscan Systems, for the purchase of Mobile X-ray inspection vans. [...]

Business Combination Adds Cutting-Edge Product Lines and Expands International Operations San Diego, California and Vienna, Austria -- eBioscience Corporation today announced that it has acquired privately held immunoassay technology pioneer Bender MedSystems GmbH in an all cash transaction. The acquisition will provide eBioscience with over 1,000 high profile immunology and oncology products including the Instant [...]

Roche Molecular Systems Research Team Uses 454 Sequencing System for High-Resolution HLA Genotyping BRANFORD, Conn. -- A study published this month in the journal Tissue Antigens reports that researchers at Roche Molecular Systems (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) (Pink Sheets: RHHBY) in Pleasanton, CA have used high-throughput sequencing technology from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, to carry [...]

Significant Commercial and Technical Milestones Achieved CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Helicos BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ: HLCS) announced today its operational, technical and scientific highlights for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. “In the third quarter of 2009, we continued to accelerate the deployment of our Helicos® Genetic Analysis System and to advance our technology. System orders more [...]