MTS APPOINTS JOHN MORRIS GROUP AS NEW BUSINESS PARTNER IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 2017 For more information contact: Brian Ross Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 952.937.4000 MTS APPOINTS JOHN MORRIS GROUP AS NEW BUSINESS PARTNER IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Eden Prairie, Minn. – September 28, 2017 – MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and sensors, today... Read more

Oxford Immunotec Announces Update in Patent Infringement Litigation

OXFORD, United Kingdom and MARLBOROUGH, Mass., September 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Oxford Immunotec Global PLC (Nasdaq:OXFD), a global, high-growth diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing proprietary tests for the management of underserved immune-regulated conditions, today announced a decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in the Company’s patent infringement... Read more

2017 Global CESI-MS Symposium Hosted by SCIEX to be Held in Boston

Two-Day Session to be held at Northeastern University and feature presentations and live Q&A’s from Academia, BioPharma, and industry innovators from around the world September 26, 2017 Framingham, MA — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, announced today the program for the 2017 Global CESI-MS Symposium, Oct. 5 and 6 to be held at Barnett... Read more

New Promega HiBiT Protein Tagging System Easily Combines with CRISPR/Cas9 Knock-in to Simplify Studies of Proteins Under Natural Expression Conditions

MADISON, WI USA (September 26, 2017) Promega Corporation’s new bioluminescent HiBiT Protein Tagging System can be combined with CRISPR/CAS9-mediated gene editing to tag endogenous proteins and simplify their study under natural expression conditions, as demonstrated in “CRISPR-Mediated Tagging of Endogenous Proteins with a Luminescent Peptide,” a recently published paper in the journal ACS Chemical Biology. HiBiT technology, which... Read more

MKS Instruments Announces Upgrade from S&P Global Ratings

ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 26, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, announced today that S&P Global Ratings (“S&P”) raised their corporate credit rating to ‘BB+’ from ‘BB’ on improved credit metrics. Simultaneously, S&P raised the issue-level rating on the company’s senior secured... Read more

Seegene inks MOU with global automated instrumentation leader Hamilton Company

Seoul, Korea, 2017/09/26 – Seegene, a world’s leading developer of multiplex molecular technologies and assays, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hamilton Company, a global leader in the design and manufacture of precision measurement devices, automated liquid handling workstations, and sample management systems. Through this strategic agreement, Seegene and Hamilton... Read more

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. to acquire Energetiq Technology Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. announces an agreement to acquire Energetiq Technology Inc. (EQ), a manufacturer of Laser Driven Light Sources (LDLS™) and Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light sources. The agreement, if consummated, will bring Energetiq into the consolidated group of companies that are owned by Photonics Management Corp. (PMC), of Bridgewater, NJ (USA). Hamamatsu Photonics... Read more

Appointment of Chief Executive Officer

Sep 25, 2017 Microsaic Systems plc (AIM: MSYS), the developer of chip-based mass spectrometry (“MS”) instruments is pleased to announce that it has appointed Glenn Tracey to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with immediate effect. Glenn joined the Company in March 2015 as Chief Operating Officer and was appointed to the Board of... Read more

Chairman of the Supervisory Board Dr. Lothar Kappich Appointed Executor of Horst Sartorius’ Will

Goettingen, September 25, 2017 – The local German court Goettingen (Amtsgericht) confirmed the appointment of Dr. Lothar Kappich as executor of Horst Sartorius’ will. This new appointment became necessary after the former executor, Professor Arnold Picot, Ph.D., had passed away on July 9, 2017. This executorship with a period of administration defined up to 2028... Read more

Next-Generation Media System Provides the Highest In Vitro Survival of Neurons

Gibco B-27 Plus Neuronal Culture System overcomes common neurobiology research challenge CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A newly launched media system by Thermo Fisher Scientific has been designed to enable reliable and biologically relevant in vitro neuronal cell models by increasing survival of neurons by more than 50 percent compared to conventional products. The new Gibco B-27... Read more