April 17, 2006
PALO ALTO, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A)announced that it has acquired privately held SynPro Corp., the owner of a contract manufacturing facility established to supply active pharmaceutical ingredients and provide related services. Financial details were not disclosed. Based on Agilent and industry estimates, the size of the combined RNA and DNA synthesis market is [...]
AMETEK OPENS CUSTOMER SERVICE OFFICE FOR PROCESS INSTRUMENTS IN CHENGDU, SICHUAN, CHINA
April 13, 2006
PITTSBURGH, PA - AMETEK Process Instruments has significantly expanded its service and customer support capabilities in China with the opening of a new office in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. AMETEK’s Chengdu office, located at No. 35 Zongfu Road, commenced operation on March 1, 2006, and joins AMETEK sales, service and [...]
Siemens Acquires Ultrasonic Flow Measurement Firm
April 11, 2006
Siemens Acquires Ultrasonic Flow Measurement Firm Controlotron Atlanta, GA -Siemens Energy & Automation has entered into an asset purchase agreement for Controlotron, a maker of nonintrusvie ultrasonic flowmeters. Financial details were not disclosed. "Controlotron is highly recognized for its advanced technology in non-intrusive flow measurement, and its strong market positions in oil and gas, water [...]
GE Healthcare Unveils New Life Sciences Business
April 6, 2006
Chalfont St Giles, UK - GE Healthcare has announced the creation of GE Healthcare Life Sciences – a new business, involving the combination of two existing businesses – Protein Separations and Discovery Systems and is effective immediately. By this move GE Healthcare confirms the company’s ongoing investment and commitment to the protein and life science [...]
Affymetrix and Abbott Enter Into Licensing Agreement
April 5, 2006
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) announced that Abbott Molecular, a division of Abbott, has obtained a non-exclusive, worldwide license to a number of Affymetrix patents that will allow it to manufacture and sell comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) microarrays, related readers and software in the research and diagnostics field. Details of the license were not disclosed.
April 5, 2006
SAN JOSE, California – Thermo Electron Corporation has concluded a licensing agreement with the University of Virginia for Electron Transfer Dissociation (ETD), an innovative new ion fragmentation technology that provides sequence information not available from conventional methods currently in use on ion trap mass spectrometers.
April 4, 2006
FOSTER CITY, Calif & WASHINGTON--At the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, announced the commercial availability of 300 individual TaqMan(R) MicroRNA Assays (also known as miRNA assays) for human, mouse, and rat studies. MicroRNAs, one of the smallest entities in the human genome responsible [...]
Microsoft Corp. announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance
April 4, 2006
BOSTON — At the Bio-IT World Magazine World Life Sciences Conference + Expo, Microsoft Corp. announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group working to further integrate science and technology as a first step toward making personalized medicine a reality. The alliance unites the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hardware and software industries to explore new [...]
April 4, 2006
Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) that it has entered into a collaboration with the Core Genotyping Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., a contractor for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), on a series of biomarker studies for cancer research. The NCI-funded [...]
YSI Sells Temperature Line to Focus on Environment Business
April 3, 2006
Yellow Springs, OH – YSI has sold its Precision Temperature business to Measurement Specialties for $14 million in cash. YSI Temperature makes temperature sensors and instruments for the aerospace, military, medical and patient monitoring markets. “After closely examining our portfolio and strategically reviewing key product lines, we recognized that what we do best is instrumentation, [...]
