Sanofi-aventis signs a collaboration agreementwith RainDance Technologies and Louis Pasteur University to launch dScreen Consortium within ‘Alsace BioValley’ Cluster

- Development of next generation of High-Throughput Screening to accelerate the drug discovery process - Paris, September 26, 2008 - Sanofi-aventis announced today the launch of the dScreen Consortium, a research initiative conducted with RainDance Technologies , Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, and Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, to develop the next generation of High-Throughput Screening (HTS) [...]

Fluidigm Withdraws Its Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering

Fluidigm Corporation today announced that due to the historic instability in the market, the company is withdrawing its registration statement for its initial public offering of shares of common stock. "We went out on September 5th with a very strong story and Fluidigm received a warm reception from the investment community. We explained how our [...]

RainDance Dedicates New Headquarters, Manufacturing Facility

LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 26 -- RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative droplet-based microfluidic solutions for human health and disease research, today dedicated its new headquarters and operations building and unveiled its new RDT 1000 instrument. Keynoting the event was Sir Richard Roberts, 2003 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine and Founder and Chief [...]

Novasep has Extended its Custom Chiral Separation Capabilities to Offer Optimized and Efficient Purification Solutions to its Life Science Customers

- Custom Chiral Separation Using Preparative Chromatography Eases and Speeds up Process Development; Rapidly and Efficiently Producing the Required Amount of Compounds for Early Development Phases While Being Cost Efficient at Industrial Scale POMPEY, France, September 26 -- Novasep, a global leader in advanced separation technologies, has recently added a state-of-the-art cGMP pilot scale continuous [...]

Invitrogen Completes Syndication of Financing for Applied Biosystems Acquisition

Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN) today announced that the syndication of the financing relating to its proposed acquisition of Applied Biosystems announced on June 12, 2008 has been completed. Pricing for the $2.65 billion financing was in line with expected terms. The Term Loan A, in the amount of $1.4 billion, and the Revolving Credit Facility, in [...]

Clarient and Definiens Collaborate to Develop Image Analysis Technology for Cancer Diagnostics

Clarient, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLRT) and Definiens, Inc. jointly announced today that they established a strategic partnership to employ a series of image analysis platforms for Clarient's in-house research and development, and Web-based customer portal PATHSiTE(SM). Under a five year collaborative agreement, Clarient and Definiens plan to develop and commercialize tools that will help to evaluate quantitative [...]

Rapiscan Systems Receives Approval for Use from UK Department for Transport for Its Advanced Technology X-Ray Inspection System

The Advanced Technology X-Ray System is Currently Being Deployed By TSA at Aviation Checkpoints in the United States HAWTHORNE, Calif.--Rapiscan Systems, Inc., a global leading supplier of security inspection systems, announced today that it has received approval for use from the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport (DfT) for its Rapiscan 620DV (Dual View) X-ray system [...]

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Uses Affymetrix Technology to Reveal Changes in 800 Cancer Cell Lines

Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) announced today that the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has developed a catalog of structural genomic changes in almost 800 cancer cell lines using the company's Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0. Cancer cell lines are invaluable reagents in analyzing the molecular biology of the disease as well as important tools in developing new [...]

Monash University purchases Rigaku CrystalMation

system for The Protein Crystallography Unit The Woodlands, TX - September 25, 2008. Rigaku Americas Corporation is pleased to announce the sale of the CrystalMation™ automated protein crystallization system, a modified HighFlux HomeLab™ with R-AXIS IV++ imaging plate detector, and a MicroMax™-007 HF X-ray source upgrade to The Protein Crystallography Unit within the Department of [...]

Proxeon and Thermo Fisher Scientific integrate system software

Proxeon adds third major HPLC and MS instrument supplier to the company's list of business partners Odense, Denmark - 25.09.2008. Proxeon today announced completion of a project to integrate their EASY-nLCTM system software with XcaliburTM software from Thermo Fisher Scientific. Through this joint effort Proxeon has become a registered Thermo Fisher Scientific Virtual Instrument Partner [...]

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