SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--Fluidigm Corporation announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to the proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock. Copies of the Fluidigm Corporation S-1 Registration Statement can be accessed over the Internet through the SEC's Web site at [...]

BRANFORD, Conn.--454 Life Sciences, a centre of excellence of Roche Applied Science, today announced that GATC Biotech, one of Europe’s leading sequencing service providers, has acquired a second Genome Sequencer FLX System. GATC Biotech's decision to add an additional Genome Sequencer FLX System to its service offering was based both on soaring demand for ultra [...]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark--DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products, and Upfront Chromatography A/S, a leading developer of customized industrial-scale separation services, today announced the collaboration between the two companies to optimize Upfront’s new, fully disposable chromatography system for use with DSM's proprietary manufacturing technology. The fully integrated disposable chromatography system will offer biopharmaceutical manufacturers [...]

ST. LOUIS, April 16 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced the launch of its Imprint(TM) Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Kit for epigenetic research (https://www.sigma.com/chip). The Imprint(TM) ChIP Kit provides a complete solution for Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, including columns and reagents for DNA purification as well as an integrated protocol for ChIP DNA amplification with the GenomePlex(R) Whole Genome [...]

BRISBANE, Australia & KARLSRUHE, Germany--Bruker AXS GmbH, one of the world leading manufacturers of X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectrometry equipment, and mineral analysis technology company Intellection Pty Ltd have announced a new strategic collaboration agreement which builds on the strong existing OEM relationship between the companies. Under this agreement, Intellection will expand its range of [...]

CHELMSFORD, Massachusetts (April 15, 2008) – ESA Biosciences, a Magellan Biosciences company and leader in novel HPLC systems that improve results for pharmaceutical development and QA/QC, life science, and analytical-chemistry customers worldwide, announced that Michael Pettigrew has joined the company as vice president of life sciences sales. Mr. Pettigrew comes to ESA from GE Healthcare [...]

MIGDAL HA'EMEK, Israel--Jordan Valley Semiconductors LTD, a provider of semiconductor metrology solutions, has acquired the business of Bede, effective Monday, April 14th. Bede is the leading supplier of HRXRD (High Resolution XRD) metrology for the semiconductor and compound industries with revenues of $11.6M in 2007. Bede entered into the UK’s Administration phase, their equivalent of [...]

Drug manufacturer deploys suite of NMR tools at sites in France, Hungary, and Germany. Toronto, CA (April 15, 2008)— Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs), an industry leader in the development of software for NMR processing, prediction, and data management recently sold a suite of NMR software to one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, Sanofi-Aventis, [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Helicos BioSciences (NASDAQ:HLCS - News), a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced a research collaboration with City of Hope focused on cancer molecular diagnostics. City of Hope will use Helicos’ proprietary True Single Molecule Sequencing (tSMS)TM technology for the examination of known cancer-associated gene variants and the potential discovery [...]

WASHINGTON--ICx Technologies (NASDAQ:ICXT - News), a developer of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications, announced today that it has been awarded an order worth $4.4 million, to provide identiFINDER™ radiation detectors to ThermoFisher Scientific. The identiFINDER is a hand-held detection unit that finds and, most importantly, identifies radioactive material. With [...]