BIOWIRE2K FOSTER CITY, Calif.--Sept. 5, 2006--Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement with Promega Corporation resolving outstanding legal disputes between the two companies. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

BOSTON--Sept. 5, 2006--PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced the acquisition of Avalon Instruments Limited, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The acquisition expands and complements PerkinElmer's Molecular Spectroscopy product portfolio through adding a family of innovative bench-top dispersive Raman spectrometers. The Avalon Raman platforms support both bulk analysis [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 1 -- Applied Imaging Corp. ("Applied Imaging" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: AICX), a leading supplier of automated imaging and image analysis systems, today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Genetix Group plc. ("Genetix") (AIM: GTX), the UK-based cell biology, proteomics & genomics [...]

BIOWIRE2K CARLSBAD, Calif.--Sept. 1, 2006--Invitrogen Corporation (Nasdaq:IVGN), a global leader in life sciences, and Sentigen Holding Corp. (Nasdaq:SGHL) today announced that they had entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Invitrogen will acquire New Jersey-based Sentigen in a cash transaction at a price of $3.37 per share, or approximately $25.9 million for all shares [...]

WALTHAM, Mass. & HAMPTON, N.H.--Aug. 30, 2006--Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE: TMO - News) and Fisher Scientific International Inc. (NYSE: FSH - News) announced that, at separate special meetings held today, stockholders of both companies have voted to approve their merger. At the Fisher stockholders meeting, more than 99 percent of the shares represented were voted [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 30, 2006 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has obtained worldwide, non-exclusive patent licenses from Abbott Molecular Inc. for the manufacture, marketing and sale of oligonucleotide microarrays using a two-or-more color technology for gene expression and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) applications. This broad license covers microarray applications, including [...]

SEATTLE--Aug. 28, 2006-- Genetic Analysis Integration Tool Provides GeneMapper(R) and SeqScape(R) Users with the Ability to Directly Query Data Collected and Managed in Geospiza's Finch(R) Suite Geospiza, the life science industry's leading developer of information technology solutions to automate genetic testing and data production, today announced the expansion of the companies' 2005 platform collaboration agreement [...]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic--Aug. 27, 2006-- Next-Generation ultraflex III Offers Unique Smartbeam Technology, Further Boosts Sensitivity and Triples Acquisition Speed for Most Advanced LC-MALDI Workflow At the 17th International Mass Spectrometry Conference IMSC, Bruker Daltonics today announces its next-generation horizontal top-of-the-line ultraflex(R) III smartbeam(TM) MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometer. The new ultraflex III combines various innovative features and [...]

WALTHAM, Mass. & HAMPTON, N.H.--Aug. 23, 2006--Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE: TMO) and Fisher Scientific International Inc. (NYSE: FSH) today announced that they have received a request for additional information (second request) from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection with the pending merger of the two companies. The second request is limited to information concerning [...]

FRANKLIN, Mass.-- Cohesive Technologies Inc. (https://www.cohesivetech.com) announced that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with Mayo Clinic to increase patient sample throughput and improve data quality using Cohesive's proprietary turbulent flow chromatography (TurboFlow(R) technology) systems for clinical assays using tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). The collaboration has been established to accelerate the development of clinical [...]