NORTHBROOK, Ill.--IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX - News) today announced the acquisition of Isolation Technologies, a leading developer of advanced column hardware and accessories for the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) market. HPLC instruments are used in a variety of analytical chemistry applications, with primary commercial applications including drug discovery and quality control measurements for pharmaceutical [...]

HOLLISTON, Mass.--Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq: HBIO - News), today announced it had completed the purchase of Panlab s.l. of Barcelona Spain for approximately $5.0 million in cash. Panlab distributes, manufactures and develops products and software for life science researchers primarily in the neuroscience research market. "With the acquisition of Panlab, we are able to expand [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has acquired NanoDrop Technologies, LLC, a leading manufacturer of micro-volume ultraviolet visible (UV-Vis) instrumentation. The acquisition will strengthen Thermo Fisher's portfolio of UV-Vis spectrophotometry instruments for applications involving small sample volumes. For example, micro-volume samples are used in emerging life [...]

WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 3 -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO - News) today announced that it has acquired Priority Solutions International, a leading third-party logistics provider to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, following anti-trust clearance. Priority Solutions was previously majority-owned by Arsenal Capital Partners. With revenues of approximately $95 million in 2006, Priority Solutions [...]

Expands Neonatal Product Range and Clinical Reach WALTHAM, Mass. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global technology leader in Health Sciences, and ViaCell, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAC), a biotechnology company specializing in the collection and preservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells, announced today the signing of a definitive agreement under which PerkinElmer plans to [...]

Nova Analytics Corporation is pleased to announce the acquisition of Bellingham & Stanley Ltd (www.bellinghamandstanley.com), a UK based business, through its subsidiary, Nova Analytics Deutschland GmbH. For over 90 years, B&S has been the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of high quality refractometers and polarimeters. “B&S provides Nova Analytics with a range of refractometers and [...]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI - News), an Applera Corporation business, and Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A - News) today announced that they have entered into a settlement agreement resolving patent infringement lawsuits originally filed by Applera against Stratagene (acquired by Agilent in 2007), alleging infringement of Applera's real-time thermal cycler instrument patents. [...]

Florida-based company, XStream Systems has begun selling a piece of equipment which can detect counterfeit drugs in the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain. XStream Systems, Inc. developed a unit to identify dangerous pharmaceuticals circulating within the States to protect the public by authenticating these medications before they reach the consumer. The threat of Americans swallowing counterfeit [...]

September 17, 2007, WINOOSKI VT, USA – Pursuant to their global growth initiatives, BioTek Instruments announces the expansion of their coverage in the Latin American region. Mr. Carlos Montero, a certified microbiologist, joins the BioTek team as a Product Specialist, and will travel extensively within the entire Latin America region to provide technical, educational and [...]

Responding to new assay developments, BioTek Instruments, Inc. is pleased to announce that their ELx50 Filter Microplate Washer (FMW) has been recommended by Luminex Corporation for use with their xMAP® multiplex assay platform. The compact ELx50 FMW features a syringe drive fluid-delivery system with an automated vacuum filtration solution for quick and unattended processing of [...]