BRADENTON, Fla.--GE (NYSE: GE - News) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX - News) for UTC to acquire GE’s Security business for $1.82B. The transaction has been approved by the Boards of both companies, and will be subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals. “The [...]

UPPSALA, SWEDEN -- Olink Bioscience has signed an agreement with Space Import-Export s.r.l for distribution of the Duolink® product line in Italy. "Our agreement with Space Import-Export is a further step in the process to penetrate the European market. Space Import-Export is an excellent provider of first class products and will help us to expand [...]

Collaborative work employs complementary particle characterization tools for inhaler development Malvern, UK: At Drug Delivery to the Lungs 20 (DDL 20), which takes place from 9 to 11 December 2009, in Edinburgh, Scotland, specialists from Malvern Instruments will present the results of work undertaken in collaboration with the Helsinki University of Technology. Their study highlights [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Ionian Technologies, Inc. and Roche Diagnostics Corporation have entered into a collaborative agreement based on Ionian's rapid isothermal nucleic acid amplification technology. Under this agreement, Roche will identify new applications and customers for the technology and will bring these opportunities to Ionian. Roche will have exclusive manufacturing rights for these specific opportunities [...]

Money-Back Guarantee LOS GATOS, Calif -- Sciformatix Corporation, a pioneer in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) for scientific labs, today announced the availability of its SciLIMS Samples and Storage Management (SSM): Professional Edition. The SciLIMS SSM Professional Edition provides a professional solution that will accommodate small labs, emerging growth labs, and larger labs. [...]

Comprehensive, Easy-to-Use Web Service Available Immediately to Researchers Worldwide, Free/Full NGS-based Runs Available to First Registrants Westborough, MA (PRWEB) -- GenomeQuest, the world leader in sequence data management (SDM), today announced a comprehensive and easy-to-use ChIP-Seq workflow solution (https://www.genomequest.com/43/chip-seq) available immediately as a web cloud service to researchers around the world. The ChIP-Seq method is [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a strategic agreement with Markes International. This new agreement covers non-exclusive, global distribution of Markes Thermal Desorption (TD) instruments that are used in conjunction with Thermo Scientific gas chromatographs (GC) and Thermo Scientific gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers (GC/MS). This agreement will [...]

• With Candurin® Gold Sparkle, Merck is expanding its range of food colorants • Merck Laboratory Business presents innovations in food analysis Darmstadt -- The global exhibition “Food Ingredients Europe (FiE)” is opening next week in Frankfurt. Merck is also participating with a booth in this event that will be held from November 17 to [...]

Advanced speed, flexibility and performance CORALVILLE, Iowa – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has announced a number of new advancements to its highly flexible miRCat™ small RNA cloning system. The updated kit is now even faster, permitting the cloning of small regulatory RNAs (miRNAs, piRNAs, siRNAs, etc) from any cellular source in any species, while saving [...]

Camstar’s Manufacturing Platform to Support Commercialization, Production Volume and Quality Enforcement CHARLOTTE, N.C.--Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Pacific Biosciences, a leader in the development of a transformative Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT™) DNA sequencing platform, has selected the Camstar Manufacturing™ enterprise software platform to enable its critical transition from product development to high-volume production, [...]