CONTACT: Steve Quinlan, Vice President & CFO, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., Dec. 6, 2017 — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that Ed Bradley has advised the company of his intentions to retire to pursue his personal interests. Bradley, vice president of Neogen’s Food Safety division, began his career with Neogen 23 years ago, and for the... Read more
WED, DEC 06, 2017 16:00 CET Stockholm – Biotage AB (Biotage), (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: BIOT.ST) has today entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares in the privately held company Horizon Technology, Inc. (Horizon) based in New Hampshire, US, at a purchase price of approx. USD 18.4 million, corresponding to approx. SEK 153 million[1],... Read more
Addressing the highest demands in imaging and analytics from any sample JENA/Germany, 2017-12-04. ZEISS introduces its new field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) ZEISS GeminiSEM 450. The instrument combines ultrahigh resolution imaging with the capability to perform advanced analytics while maintaining flexibility and ease-of-use. With ZEISS GeminiSEM 450, users benefit from high resolution, surface sensitive... Read more
ANDOVER, Mass., Nov. 30, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, today made a $50 million voluntary principal prepayment on its term loan. This prepayment is in addition to voluntary principal prepayments of $175 million made in the first three quarters of... Read more
London, UK, Nov 30, 2017 LGC and NuGEN have today announced a collaboration agreement for the commercialisation of the Single Primer Enrichment Technology (SPET) and distribution of Allegro Targeted Genotyping reagents for NGS library preparation. This collaboration will benefit customers of both LGC and NuGEN, as it expands options to access the SPET technology through the SeqSNP service in LGC’s global service... Read more
MADISON, WI USA (November 30, 2017) Promega Corporation’s new Maxwell® RSC PureFood Pathogen Kit offers food safety labs an easy and consistent automated DNA purification method for PCR-based testing of food pathogens. The kit does not require enzymatic pre-treatment and, when used in combination with the Maxwell RSC Instrument, can effectively purify DNA from 1 to 16 food... Read more
“METTLER TOLEDO XPR precision balances are helping busy labs and manufacturing operations create simplified workflows while maintaining accuracy.” METTLER TOLEDO XPR precision balances’ clever mix of features delivers fast, stable results and safely records them for error-free data transfer and air-tight traceability. A focus on ergonomics makes these workhorses comfortable to use, while a robust... Read more
MADISON, WI USA (November 28, 2017) Promega Corporation’s new NanoBRET™ Target Engagement (TE) Intracellular Kinase Assay is the first assay to quantify inhibitor drug binding to kinase proteins inside live human cells, as demonstrated in the recent Cell Chemical Biology article, “Quantitative, Wide-spectrum Kinase Profiling in Live Cells for Assessing the Effect of Cellular ATP on Target Engagement.”... Read more
ST. LOUIS and VIENNA — 11/28/17 — Partek and Lexogen scientists have joined forces to deliver an easy-to-use analysis pipeline in Partek® Flow® software for data generated by Lexogen’s QuantSeq 3’ Library Prep Kits. QuantSeq is an economical protocol for RNA-Seq gene expression analysis and provides an alternative to microarrays. This pipeline enables Lexogen customers to import raw sequencing files directly into Partek... Read more
HERCULES, Calif — November 28, 2017 — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that its board of directors has authorized a new share repurchase program, granting the Company authority to repurchase, on a discretionary basis, up to $250 million of the outstanding... Read more