EMD Chemicals Announces Price Increase for Specialty Chemical Products

GIBBSTOWN, N.J., Aug 22, 2008 -- As previously announced by its parent company, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, EMD Chemicals Inc. (EMD) announced today that as of September 1, 2008, it will raise the prices of its specialty chemical products by 5 to 15% worldwide. Due to the sharp increase in the costs of raw materials, [...]

JMAR Technologies Forms Unit for Radiological/Nuclear Detection, Hires Leading Systems Engineer

Company's New Spectral Labs Division, Led by James Winso, Fills Out JMAR Suite of Threat-Detection Technologies SAN DIEGO--JMAR Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: JMAR - News) a leading innovator in the development and commercialization of sensing systems for the detection of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) materials, today announced that it has formed a new [...]

Twelve GE Security CTX 9000 DSi Inline Checked Bag Screening Systems Now Operating at BCIA’s Terminal Three in Time for Departing Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Visitors, Athletes

BEIJING--GE Security, Inc., a business of GE Enterprise Solutions (NYSE:GE - News), today announced its Homeland Protection business installed twelve GE Security CTX 9000 DSi advanced baggage screening systems at Beijing Capital International Airport’s (BCIA) Terminal Three as part of the city’s infrastructure investment for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Source: GE Security, Inc. GE [...]

OSI Systems Awarded Approximate $27 Million Contract for Cargo & Vehicle Inspection Systems

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 been awarded a contract from an undisclosed international government agency for approximately $27 million. The contract, for multiple Rapiscan Eagle Mobile Cargo [...]

Fluidigm and Bio-Gene Technology Join Forces in Hong Kong Distribution Deal

Fluidigm Corporation, the inventor of integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), has appointed Bio-Gene Technology Ltd. as its exclusive distributor for the BioMark(TM) System for Genetic Analysis in Hong Kong. The BioMark System has significant advantages for real-time PCR, genotyping, gene expression, copy number variation and absolute quantification for sequencing. The BioMark System utilizes integrated fluidic circuits [...]

Fluidigm and Millennium Science Team Up in Australia and New Zealand Distribution Deal

Fluidigm Corporation, the inventor of integrated fluidic circuits, has appointed Millennium Science Pty. Ltd. as its exclusive distributor for the BioMark(TM) System for Genetic Analysis in Australia and New Zealand. The BioMark System has significant advantages for real-time PCR, genotyping, gene expression, copy number variation and absolute quantification for sequencing. The BioMark System utilizes integrated [...]

Symyx Facilitates ISIS-to-Isentris(R) Migrations

Symyx Direct Chemistry Cartridge Now Compatible With ISIS Systems SANTA CLARA, CA--Aug 20, 2008 -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. (SMMX - News) today announced joint releases of the Symyx Direct 6.1 chemistry data cartridge and ISIS/Host 5.2 informatics system for registering, retrieving, displaying and analyzing scientific information. These software upgrades -- coupled with the upcoming release [...]

Pressure BioSciences, Inc. Releases Novel, PCT-dependent Sample Preparation Kit for Systems Biology Studies

SOUTH EASTON, Mass., Aug. 20 -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: PBIO - News; "PBI" or the "Company") today announced the release for sale of ProteoSolve-SB, a novel, pressure cycling technology ("PCT")-dependent kit for the simultaneous extraction, isolation, and fractionation of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), proteins, and lipids from animal and plant samples routinely used [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Sage-N Research Join Forces to Provide a Complete Proteomics Data Analysis Solution

SAN JOSE, Calif. (August 20, 2008) — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Sage-N Research Inc., the leading supplier of high-throughput proteomics data analysis solutions, today announced the latest product of their five year collaboration on proteomics analysis: the first proteomics software platform designed specifically for the Enterprise Linux market. [...]

Robert E. Knowling, Jr. Joins Roper Industries Board of Directors

SARASOTA, Fla., Aug. 20 -- Roper Industries, Inc. (NYSE: ROP) announced that Robert E. Knowling, Jr. has been elected to its Board of Directors. Mr. Knowling serves as Chief Executive Officer of Telwares and was previously CEO of the NYC Leadership Academy, an independent non-profit corporation that is chartered with developing the next generation of [...]

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