Rapid Micro Biosystems Closes $18.6M Series A Financing
July 8, 2009
BEDFORD, Mass.--Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc., a company developing innovative products for faster detection of microbial contamination, today announced that it has successfully raised $18.6 million in venture financing. Investors in the Series A round include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, TVM Capital, Quaker BioVentures, and VIMAC Milestone Medica Fund (VMM). Rapid Micro Biosystems will use [...]
July 8, 2009
SAN DIEGO--Nanogen, Inc. (Other OTC: NGEN.PK), developer of molecular and rapid diagnostic products, today announced that on July 2, 2009, pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement dated May 13, 2009, as amended, Nanogen and its subsidiaries Epoch BioSciences, Inc. and Nanotronics, Inc. completed their previously announced sale of substantially all of their assets to Financière [...]
July 8, 2009
BARCELONA--The Research Institute of the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (IR-HUVH) in Barcelona is the first Spanish health centre to acquire the Genome Sequencer FLX System from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company. This new high-performance sequencing system improves the productivity and precision of genome sequencing at IR-HUVH. Multiple research projects in biomedicine conducted in the [...]
Millipore Sues W.L. Gore & Associates for Patent Infringement
July 8, 2009
BILLERICA, Mass.--Millipore Corporation, a leading provider of technologies, tools and services for the global life science industry, has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against W.L. Gore & Associates for infringement of Millipore’s patent rights under U.S. Patent No. 7,293,477, “Disposable, Pre-Sterilized Fluid Receptacle Sampling Device,” by [...]
AbD Serotec and Spinreact Sign Supply Agreement
July 8, 2009
AbD Serotec and Spinreact Sign Supply Agreement for Antibodies used in Clinical Diagnostic Kits MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) announced today that its research and diagnostic antibody segment AbD Serotec and Spinreact S.A., a Spanish biotechnology company with more than 30 years of experience in research and manufacturing of clinical diagnostic reagents, [...]
Applied Biosystems Unveils New Real-Time PCR Assays
July 8, 2009
Applied Biosystems Unveils New Real-Time PCR Assays That Quantify Proteins in Human Cells TaqMan Protein Expression Assays Provide Novel Method for Stem Cell Research International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) conference CARLSBAD, Calif.--Applied Biosystems, part of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), today announced the introduction of a new line of TaqMan® real-time PCR assays that [...]
Bruker Announces Order from SEMATECH at UAlbany NanoCollege
July 8, 2009
Bruker Announces Order for D8 FABLINE and D8 DISCOVER X-ray Metrology Tools from SEMATECH at UAlbany NanoCollege ALBANY, New York & MADISON, Wis.--Bruker AXS, the market leader in X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) instrumentation, is pleased to announce that SEMATECH, the global consortium of semiconductor chip-makers, has ordered the Bruker X-ray tools D8 FABLINE™ and D8 DISCOVER™ [...]
Cellix Expands on its European Network – Italy
July 8, 2009
Dublin, Ireland -- Cellix Ltd and Crisel Instruments today announced a distribution agreement that enables Crisel Instruments to distribute Cellix’s microfluidic products throughout Italy. Cellix’s Vivienne Williams, CEO noted that “Cellix is delighted to partner with Crisel Instruments to make our products available to the active research community in Italy” Crisel Instruments is a leading [...]
Millipore Launches Next Generation of Flow Cytometers
July 7, 2009
Compact, affordable flow cytometer allows scientists to conduct complex cell analyses at their benchtops BILLERICA, Mass.--Millipore Corporation (NYSE: MIL), a leading provider of technologies, tools and services for the global life science industry, today announced the launch of the new guava easyCyte™ 8HT flow cytometry system. This compact, affordable, six-color detection system with 96-well automation [...]
ASD Inc. Releases the QualitySpec® K-B Sample Press
July 7, 2009
Further Automating Process Optimization for the Pulp and Paper Industry The Industry’s first and only direct solution for accurate and simultaneous at-line measurement of Kappa number and Brightness of chemical pulps just got better! Boulder, Colo. (Vocus) July 7, 2009 -- ASD Inc. introduces the QualitySpec® K-B Sample Press to complement the QualitySpec K-B NIR [...]

