Award recognizes transformative prostate cancer clinical research using novel liquid biopsy technologies SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Professor Gerhardt Attard has been selected to receive a prestigious Agilent Thought Leader Award. Prof Attard is a John Black Charitable Foundation Endowed Chair in Urological Cancer Research at University College London (UCL). Professor Attard [...]

SmartChem® 210 System Simplifies Operation and Cuts Training Time Westborough, MA – KPM Analytics announced a new model to complete its SmartChem® line of wet-chemistry discrete analyzers. The SmartChem® 210 adds a low-mid capacity analyzer that features the same user-friendly graphical software suite used in larger SmartChem® systems, simplifying operation and reducing training time. The SmartChem® 210 is a flexible productivity platform [...]

CALIBRE SCIENTIFIC ACQUIRES AGAR SCIENTIFIC, A UK-BASED MANUFACTURER AND DISTRIBUTOR OF MICROSCOPY CONSUMABLES AND EQUIPMENT LOS ANGELES — Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of Agar Scientific, a global manufacturer and distributor of microscopy consumables and equipment with headquarters in Stansted, United Kingdom. Agar Scientific further enhances Calibre Scientific’s growing presence in the field of microscopy. [...]

High-throughput sequencing methods mainly bases on Illumina platforms have benefited the entire field of biology for more than a decade. The opportunity to provide researchers with an unprecedented insight into the transcriptional landscape of cells by using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has boosted many important discoveries. However, RNA-seq is generally performed in bulk, which measures average [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. – New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with over $37 billion in assets under management, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with the intention to acquire PerkinElmer’s Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses, a carve-out from the Discovery & Analytical Solutions segment of PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), [...]

Enters agreement with intention to divest Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses WALTHAM, Mass. -- PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced it has entered into an agreement with the intention to divest its Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses to New Mountain Capital, a leading growth-oriented [...]

Georg von Erffa will be the new Head of Corporate Human Resources (CHR). He will succeed Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf, who was appointed Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) on the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG from 1 July 2022. Arlett Hesse will take on the newly created role of Head of CHR Germany. Oberkochen, Germany -- Effective [...]

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, today announced that Rolando Brawer, Ph.D. has been named executive vice president, Strategy & Corporate Development, effective immediately. In this newly created role, Dr. Brawer will lead Berkeley Lights' strategy and corporate development functions and support the Company's growth strategy through identification, [...]

(M&M 2022 Portland, Oregon) -- JEOL, the global leader in the development of cutting-edge Electron Microscopes for materials characterization and analysis, introduces its latest Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS), the Gather-X. This new windowless EDS answers the need for higher sensitivity and low-energy X-Ray detection in the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). It can collect the entire [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, USA – Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (NYSE: MTD) announced today that Roland Diggelmann has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Mr. Diggelmann most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of Smith & Nephew Plc from 2019-2022. Prior to this role, he was CEO of Roche Diagnostics from 2012 to 2018 and managing [...]