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 [...]

Billerica, MA 7/20/06—Bruker AXS has acquired KeyMaster Technologies, amanufacturer of portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) systems from majority share-holder Advent International for $10 million in cash. “We cordially welcomethe excellent KeyMaster team. After careful exploration, we have decided thatKeyMaster is the best partner for us to enter the rapidly growing hand-heldXRF market,” said Frank Laukien, president [...]

Oberkochen, Germany and Peabody, MA 7/19/06—Carl Zeiss SMT AG’s Nanotechnology Systems Division has acquired ALIS, developer of the Looking Glass LG-2 helium ion microscope. “The Helium ion microscopy technology developed by ALIS complements our market leading scanning electron microscopy(SEM) technology and will be a key element of our future technology road map. It offers unrivalled [...]

Jena, Germany 7/18/06—CyBio AG has acquired approximately 78% of accelab GmbH, which provides customized lab automation and integration solutions to the pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetics and food industries. accelab posted 2005 sales of more than €4 million ($5.0 million) and employs 23. CyBio, which emphasized accelab’s expertise in automation systems for solid particles and liquids,stated that [...]