Agendia Raises US $23 Million in Series E Financing

Company to Present at UBS Global Life Sciences Conference on Sept. 23 HUNTINGTON BEACH, California and AMSTERDAM -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced the successful closing of a US $23 million series E investment. The financing round was led by an undisclosed family investment firm that provided approximately half of [...]

Magellan Biosciences Sells its Life Sciences Tools Business to Dionex

Company to focus on clinical-diagnostic systems and tests designed to help doctors make faster, more-informed treatment decisions CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Magellan Biosciences, Inc. (Magellan), an emerging leader in clinical diagnostics, has sold its ESA Life Sciences Tools (LST) business to Sunnyvale, California-based Dionex, Inc. (Nasdaq: DNEX - News). The sale includes all of ESA's HPLC-related [...]

LGC Standards Continues Its Growth in Emerging Markets with First Russian Office

Championing measurement science and quality control in the Russian analytical market LGC Standards has opened its first office in St Petersburg, Russia. This new office, coming only six months after a presence in China was established, demonstrates that LGC Standards continues to grow to support laboratory quality worldwide. Russia is widely recognised as a ‘pharmerging’ [...]

Integromics S.L. Integrates GeneBio’s Phenyx within OmicsHub Proteomics

Geneva, Switzerland and Madrid, Spain - Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA and Integromics S.L. today announced that GeneBio's Phenyx software platform for MS data analysis has been successfully integrated into Integromics’ latest proteomics data analysis and management tool - OmicsHub Proteomics. This integration gives Phenyx and OmicsHub Proteomics users the possibility of combining results from different [...]

New NIST nano-ruler sets some very small marks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available "meter stick" for the nano world, the new measuring tool—a calibration standard for X-ray diffraction—boasts uncertainties below a femtometer. That's [...]

BioTime, Inc. to Form Asian Subsidiary

Enters Into Agreements With Dr. Lu Daopei and Nanshan Memorial Medical Institute Limited - 2009 China-USA Scientific Forum of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine BEIJING & ALAMEDA, Calif.--BioTime, Inc. (OTCBB:BTIM) announced today that it will organize a new subsidiary, BioTime Asia, Limited, for the purpose of clinically developing and marketing therapeutic stem cell products in [...]

Specific PCR Test for Recently Detected Unapproved GM Flax/Linseed FP967/CDC Triffid

Accredited Construct Specific PCR Test for Recently Detected Unapproved GM Flax/Linseed FP967/CDC Triffid Available Through Genetic ID AUGSBURG, Germany -- Subsequent to the announcement of the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed on 8 September 2009, the German surveillance lab in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg has confirmed the detection of GM linseed/flax variety [...]

Bruker announces Combined AFM and Raman Solution for Advanced Materials Research

Billerica, Massachusetts -- Bruker announces the official launch of the new N8 NEOS SENTERRA micro-analysis system that combines the Raman Spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) on a single optical microscope platform. A comprehensive materials research investigation demands a multi-technique approach. Bruker Optics’ SENTERRA Raman spectrometer and Bruker Nano’s N8 NEOS Atomic Force Microscope was [...]

NABsys Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Stan Rose to Board of Directors

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--NABsys Inc. announced today that industry veteran and serial entrepreneur, Stan Rose, Ph.D., has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Dr. Rose is the most recent addition to the leadership team at NABsys, which recently raised $4 million in venture capital to further develop its proprietary electronic, solid-state DNA sequencing platform. “Stan [...]

Corning Incorporated and Geron Corporation Showcase New Synthetic Surface Matrices

Corning Incorporated and Geron Corporation Showcase New Synthetic Surface Matrices to Enhance Stem Cell Growth - Results of collaborative research to be shared at 2009 World Stem Cell Summit CORNING, N.Y. & MENLO PARK, CA -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) and Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced the successful development of novel synthetic surface matrices demonstrated [...]

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