Panasonic and Kalypsys Expand Collaboration with North American Commercialization Agreement

April 7, 2008 - OSAKA, Japan, and SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Panasonic Factory Solutions Co., Ltd. (PFSC), Panasonic Factory Solutions Company of America (PFSA) and Kalypsys, Inc. announced today the establishment of a Joint Commercialization Agreement to enhance sales, marketing and application support in the North American market for a next-generation High Throughput Screening (HTS) [...]

PerkinElmer Partners with Cerep for Custom Drug Discovery Solutions

Supply and Co-Marketing Agreement Provides Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Customers with a Total Solution for Drug Candidate Detection and Validation WALTHAM, Mass., Apr 06, 2008 -- PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, and Cerep SA (Eurolist: Cerep), a leading provider of drug candidate screening and profiling technologies, today announced the [...]

Immunicon Corporation is Considering Strategic Alternatives

HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa.--Immunicon Corporation (NASDAQ:IMMC - News) announced today that it is exploring and evaluating various financial and strategic alternatives for the Company, including the sale of some or all of its businesses. Immunicon has retained Stifel, Nicolaus & Company as its financial advisor to assist in exploring and evaluating various financial and strategic alternatives [...]

Oxford Instruments plc: Disposal of holding in Oxford Diffraction Limited.

Oxford Instruments plc ('Oxford Instruments'), the high technology tools and systems company, today announces the disposal of its 23% holding in Oxford Diffraction Limited ('Oxford Diffraction') to Varian, Inc. for a cash consideration of £3.5m. An additional cash amount of up to £1.1m may be received over the next three years conditional on the performance [...]

Tripos International Announces Availability of Topomer CoMFA/Search Product Integration and Topomer Technology Patent Approvals

Tripos receives U.S. Patent protection and approval for innovative Topomer technologies; Topomer tools now linked for even more powerful compound searches ST. LOUIS--Tripos International, leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and services, today announced the availability of integrated versions of its recently patented Topomer Search and Topomer CoMFA® technologies. Tripos’ Topomer technologies accelerate the [...]

Roche Applied Science Selects the Technology of NuGEN WT-Ovation™ as RNA Amplification Product for LightCycler® System

Allows researchers to assess small samples in high throughput qPCR PENZBERG, Germany & SAN CARLOS, Calif.--Roche Applied Science and NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that develops and commercializes highly sensitive nucleic acid amplification and labeling systems, announced today an agreement that will enable Roche to market and sell an RNA amplification product based [...]

Sequenom Updates 2008 Financial Guidance

SAN DIEGO--Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM - News), a leading provider of genetic analysis solutions, today updated its 2008 financial guidance. Revenues for the first quarter of 2008 will exceed revenues for the first quarter of 2007; however, while sales of MassARRAY® systems in Europe and the rest of the world were in line with expectations, sales [...]

Axela, Inc. Expands Board of Directors to Support Growth

TORONTO--Axela Inc., a recognized innovator in protein interaction technology, announced today it has expanded its Board of Directors as the company positions itself for growth in the diagnostic, life science, and pharmaceutical research markets. Joining Axela’s board are Dave Lemus, David Giddings, and Bill Clarke, MD. The new board members have a strong background in [...]

X-Rite Updates First Quarter Revenue Outlook and Announces Additional Expected Cost Savings for Fiscal 2008

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--X-Rite, Incorporated, (NASDAQ: XRIT - News) a global leader in color technology, today provided an update regarding its first quarter 2008 revenue expectations based on weaker economic conditions and market specific softness that have adversely affected revenues during the period. Concurrently, the Company announced that it is implementing plans expected to result in [...]

Helicos BioSciences Announces Single Molecule DNA Sequence Data Published in Science Magazine

Data Validates the World’s First Single Molecule Sequencing of an Organism CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Helicos BioSciences (NASDAQ: HLCS), a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced the publication of a report in Science Magazine demonstrating the first single molecule sequencing of an organism. The report depicts the use of Helicos’ proprietary True Single [...]

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