WEST CHESTER, Pa., Aug. 14 -- VWR International, Inc., a leader in the global research laboratory industry, announced today that it has entered into a Joint Distribution Agreement with HiMedia Laboratories, Mumbai, India to support the chemicals and laboratory supplies requirements of the rapidly expanding pharmaceutical and biotech industry in the subcontinent. "The Indian subcontinent [...]

HERCULES, CA--Aug 14, 2006 -- Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX:BIO - News) (AMEX:BIO-B - News), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.'s ProteinChip Systems® and worldwide technology rights to Surface Enhanced Laser Desorption/ Ionization (SELDI-TOF-MS) for [...]

BIOWIRE2K LA JOLLA, Calif.--Aug. 14, 2006--Stratagene Corporation (Nasdaq:STGN), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of specialized life science research and diagnostics products, announced today that it has entered into a joint development and license agreement with Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., to create an automated solution for the isolation of [...]

Laval, QC, August 11, 2006 - Warnex Inc. (TSX: WNX) today announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Eppendorf, a global leader in the laboratory equipment market, which will combine Eppendorf's state-of-the-art Mastercycler® ep realplex real-time PCR system with Warnex's pathogen detection kits and software to provide enhanced food safety tests. "In addition [...]

Applied Biosystems (NYSE: ABI), an Applera Corporation business,announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded the company a $24.5 million contract to accelerate the development of a prototype instrument system that is intended to improve the way infectious diseases are identified for epidemiological and biosecurity purposes. Upon successful completion of this project, this new [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif.,-- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A)announced the availability of oligo array-based ChIP-on-chip (chromatin immunoprecipitation on a chip) microarrays with a more than sixfold increase in density over previous offerings. The higher density microarrays complement the platform’s superior sensitivity and reproducibility, letting researchers conduct genomic tiling experiments. These microarrays are available in two formats: [...]

Boston, MA 7/27/06—PerkinElmer has acquired two companies for a total of$56.7 million to add to its Genetic Screening business. It has acquired N.N.Macri Technologies, which holds patents related to free beta Human Chori-onic Gonadotropin (free Beta hCG), a peptide hormone recognized as abiomarker for trimester prenatal risk assessment. PerkinElmer also has acquired NTD Laboratories, a [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & BEIJING--Affymetrix Inc., (Nasdaq:AFFX) and CapitalBio Corporation, a leading life science company based in Beijing, P.R. China, announced that CapitalBio has become a certified Affymetrix Service Provider and will begin offering genotyping services using the Affymetrix GeneChip(R) Human Mapping 500K Array Set. The 500K Array enables researchers to search across the entire [...]

Hamburg, Germany 7/24/06—Evotec Tools and Technologies, a unit of EvotecAG, has sold “the core” of its single molecule detection technology for cellular applications to Olympus. The portfolio consists of intellectual property utilizing confocal detection methods for single molecule drug discovery and gener-ated 2005 revenues of approximately €2.5 million ($3.2 million). Evotec will continue to market [...]

BILLERICA, Mass.----An ultrasonic flowmeter that is intrinsically safe and can save time and money by avoiding downtime: GE Sensing's DigitalFlow(TM) ISX878 is all that and much more. The ISX878 system brings all the advantages of clamp-on flow metering to areas requiring explosion-proof design--it is accurate, easy to install, causes no pressure drop, provides drift-free performance [...]