Applera and Genetic Technologies Announce Settlement
December 12, 2005
Melbourne, Australia-Genetic Technologies (GTC) has reached a final settlement with Applera, resulting in binding agreements, and a license for Applera to use GTC's patents covering non coding regions of the human genome. In 2003, GTC filed suit against Applera for infringement of its US Patent No. 5,612,179. (Intron Sequence Analysis Method for Detection of Adjacent [...]
Teledyne Isco Announces Retirement of President and COO Douglas Grant
December 8, 2005
Teledyne Isco Announces Retirement of President and COO Douglas Grant; David Kennedy Appointed Vice President and General Manager Lincoln, NE – December 8, 2005 -Teledyne Isco, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: TDY) announced today that Douglas Grant, long-time President and COO, will retire December 31, 2005 following 37 years of service. Concurrent with [...]
Waters® Corporation Ships Enhanced MassLynx™ Software
December 7, 2005
For Immediate Release Contact: Ann McDonough Corporate Communications 508-482-3729 Milford, Mass., -- Waters Corporation today announced the shipment of Waters MassLynx 4.1 Software, its market-leading solution for the company’s line of mass spectrometers. MassLynx Software has been enhanced and reconfigured to facilitate high-performance quantification and qualitative analysis so that users can process and review results, [...]
QIAGEN and Applied Biosystems Announce PCR Technologies License Agreement
December 5, 2005
Venlo , The Netherlands and Foster City , CA – – QIAGEN N.V.Frankfurt , Prime Standard: QIA) and Applied Biosystems Group an Applera Corporation business announced that they have entered into a license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Applied Biosystems has granted a license to QIAGEN under the expanded Applied Biosystems PCR (polymerase [...]
PerkinElmer Acquires Compliance and Validation Services Firm
December 2, 2005
Boston, MA- PerkinElmer has acquired Biomatic, a provider of laboratory compliance and validation services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. “Biomatic is a proven leader in helping pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies achieve and maintain laboratory compliance in drug discovery and development, and quality control labs. This combination positions us well to support the ever changing [...]
Thermo Introduces Retriever Software for Expanded Data Accessm More Knowledgeable Decision Making
December 2, 2005
Philadelphia, PA – Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE:TMO) today introduced Retriever version 3.0, a web-based data extraction and presentation solution that enables secure access to laboratory data, no matter the originating data system. Retriever extracts aggregates and transforms data into "laboratory information with a business context," so that the data can be used to make rapid, [...]
Broad Institute Standardizes on Thermo’s MBS Satellite Thermal Cycler
December 1, 2005
Thermo Electron Corporation has announced the purchase and installation of 215 additional MBS Satellite thermal cyclers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The recent purchase brings the total number of units to 430, making the MBS Satellite thermal cycler the Broad Institute’s standard tool for large-scale genome sequencing and analysis. The Broad Institute [...]
JPK Instruments and Physik Instrumente celebrate five years of successful collaboration
November 30, 2005
Berlin- Berlin-based JPK Instruments AG and Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG from Karlsruhe can look back on five years of successful collaboration. JPK Instruments decided in the early development phase of the company to bet on the technology of the market leader PI. From the very first, JPK’s NanoWizard® atomic force microscopes were [...]
Cellectricon Launches new Chip for Safety Pharmacology & hERG Studies
November 29, 2005
Gothenburg, Sweden: Cellectricon today announced the launch of the new Dynaflow (TM) Pro II System for safety pharmacology studies. The system comes with the newly developed DF-8 Pro II Chip successfully beta-tested for conducting GLP hERG studies by Swiss ion channel CRO bSys GmbH. Developed for life scientists and drug discovery researchers, the Dynaflow System [...]
ASM International and Oxford Instruments plc sign licesing agreement for Atomic Layer Deposition
November 29, 2005
BILTHOVEN, the Netherlands and EYNSHAM, UK, --- ASM International N.V. (Nasdaq: ASMI and Euronext Amsterdam: ASM) and Oxford Instruments plc (LSE: OXIG) announced that they have signed an agreement granting Oxford Instruments a license on ASM’s patent portfolio relating to Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology. The license includes over 280 issued and published patents and [...]