Bibby Scientific – the new home of three famous lab equipment brands
October 16, 2008
Bibby Scientific – the new home of three famous lab equipment brands World-leading Jenway®, Stuart® and Techne® products are now manufactured and distributed by Bibby Scientific Limited, following Nova Capital’s earlier acquisition of Barloworld Scientific. As one of four new companies established by Nova from the former Barloworld business, Bibby Scientific focuses on the design, [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Welcomes Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to the RNAi Partnership Program
October 15, 2008
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 15 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL), a leading life science company and member of The RNAi Consortium (TRC), proudly welcomes the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to the RNAi Partnership Program (https://sigma-aldrich.com/rpp). The RNAi Partnership Program provides new members with access to cutting-edge products in Sigma-Aldrich's functional genomics portfolio, including shRNA libraries developed by [...]
October 15, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, UK – 15 October 2008 – TeraView, (www.teraview.com ) the pioneer and leader in terahertz solutions and technology for the pharmaceutical and defense industries, has been chosen by Goodrich to supply its proprietary continuous wave (cw) terahertz technology platform for Goodrich’s chemical agent detection system. Additionally, TeraView and Goodrich have entered into an agreement [...]
Actar AB Purchases Corning® Epic® System
October 15, 2008
Swedish Start-up Offers Label-free Drug Screening Services to European Drug Discovery Researchers CORNING, N.Y., October 15, 2008 -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced that Actar AB, a part of the Karolinska Institutet innovations system, confirmed their ability to provide label-free drug screening services via the Corning® Epic® System. Actar is the first and only company [...]
microRNA Expert Dr. Muneesh Tewari Joins CombiMatrix Scientific Advisory Board
October 15, 2008
MUKILTEO, Wash., Oct. 15, 2008 -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX - News) announced today that microRNA expert Dr. Muneesh Tewari has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of CombiMatrix. Dr. Tewari is in the Human Biology division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. ``I am delighted to have Dr. Tewari on our Scientific Advisory Board,' said [...]
Symyx Adds Chemistry to KNIME Open-Source Pipelining Software
October 15, 2008
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX) today announced the release of version 1.0 of Symyx Chemistry Extensions for KNIME. The Symyx Chemistry Extensions enhance KNIME's open-source, no-fee data pipelining software with Symyx's high-value, industry-leading chemistry capabilities. This enables R&D organizations to deliver low-cost, agile chemistry extensions and services supporting scientific workflows. "Our chemistry users have said [...]
OSI Systems Awarded Approximate $3 Million Contract for Air Cargo Security Screening
October 15, 2008
Systems Will Be Used to Comply with New U.S. Air Cargo Screening Regulations HAWTHORNE, Calif.--OSI Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the security and healthcare industries, announced today that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems has received an approximate $3 million contract from an undisclosed U.S. [...]
Hamamatsu Partners with Definiens to offer a complete and fully integrated image analysis solution
October 15, 2008
Collaboration closes the loop from image acquisition to image analysis Munich, Germany – October 15, 2008 – Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence™ company, and Hamamatsu, a world-leading manufacturer of devices for the generation and measurement of infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light, today signed a partner agreement for the European market. Under the terms [...]
October 15, 2008
InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence tools, today announced it has successfully completed a pilot project at world leading pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to enable virtual drug discovery through virtual outsourcing of data analysis via secure Grid technology. The project is sponsored by SIMDAT -- a program funded by [...]
October 15, 2008
Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN) and Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) today announced that they have amended their pending merger agreement to eliminate a condition to closing requiring that the parties receive certain opinions of their respective counsel as to the tax treatment of the transaction. Under the prior terms of the merger agreement, completion of the merger [...]
