PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL - News), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced the establishment of an Asia-Pacific Headquarters in Singapore. The initiative was undertaken in partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Pall Chairman and CEO, Eric Krasnoff met with EDB officials today at a ceremony [...]

Transforming Modeling & Simulation for Chemical and Materials Research - Market-Leading Solution Increases Scientific Relevance to Product Design, Dramatically Speeds Innovation Cycle BARCELONA, SPAIN -- Accelrys European User Group Meeting -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced the release of Materials Studio 5.0. This state-of-the-art [...]

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN -- Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BASI - News) announced today that David L. Omachinski has been elected to the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Omachinski, 57, is currently an executive management consultant. From 1993 to 2005, he served in various executive management positions with Oshkosh B'Gosh, Inc., including President, Chief Operating [...]

Affymetrix Announces Major Genotyping Project With Kaiser Permanente and the University of California at San Francisco for NIH-Funded Epidemiology Study - 100,000-Sample Study to Be Performed Using New Axiom™ Genotyping Solution SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) today announced that the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health (RPGEH) and the University of California [...]

Dr. Leroy Hood-Led Venture Secures $30 Million Series A Financing From InterWest Partners, Wellcome Trust and dievini SEATTLE, WA -- Integrated Diagnostics launched officially today with more than $30 million in funding. A pre-eminent team of scientists and investors are behind the company, which was founded by renowned biotechnology innovator Dr. Leroy Hood. Integrated Diagnostics [...]

Rapidly Delivering an Automated Ion Channel Screening System CAMBRIDGE, England -- The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leading supplier of innovative automation for life science applications today announced its Advanced Projects Group, has successfully collaborated with Cellectricon, the Swedish provider of innovative screening solutions for drug discovery, to produce fully automated high throughput patch clamp [...]

SwitchGear Genomics Launches Novel High-Throughput Screening Products for Profiling Biological Pathway Regulation - Collections of Experimentally-Validated Human Promoter Reporter Vectors Empower Researchers to Measure Transcriptional Regulation Across Genes in a Variety of Different Biological Pathways MENLO PARK, Calif.-- SwitchGear Genomics, Inc., a leading provider of products for studying regulatory elements in the human genome, today [...]

Shareholders approve sale of the Richmond, Virginia assets as required under the GL Biochem Asset Purchase Agreement RICHMOND, Va.--Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (“CBI”) (NASDAQ Capital Market: CBTE) has recently announced a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire Shanghai-based GL Biochem and associated businesses (the “GL Group”), the largest global supplier of research-grade peptide products and peptide [...]

Agreement Brings Integrated Fluidic Circuit Technology to Turkish Scientists Specializing in Digital and Real-Time PCR, Genotyping, Single-Cell Gene Expression, Cancer Detection and Absolute Quantification SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & ADANA, Turkey- - Fluidigm Corporation, the inventor of integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), has appointed Nano Gen Teknolojileri Ltd. as its exclusive distributor for the BioMark™ and [...]

Sales Leader to Bring Years of Experience to Key Role within Commercial Operations CARLSBAD, Calif.--Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced that it has named Jay Therrien to the position of Vice President, Global Sales for Next Generation Sequencing. In this role, Therrien will be responsible for all [...]