Harvard Bioscience Elects James Green as Chairman of Board of Directors

HOLLISTON, Mass., June 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO) (the “Company”), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of solutions to advance life science, has elected James Green, a current Board member, as the new Chairman of its Board of Directors effective June 5, 2017.  Earl R. Lewis has served... Read more

QIAGEN receives U.S. FDA approval for cytomegalovirus (CMV) testing on automated QIAsymphony platform

High-throughput application of artus CMV QS-RGQ MDx Kit on QIAsymphony streamlines critical and frequently performed viral infection test for transplant patients Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, June 6, 2017 – QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced it has received premarket approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its automated... Read more

Anton Paar acquires product line for particle characterization

2017-06-06 | Corporate Anton Paar expands the product portfolio for particle characterization by the acquisition of the corresponding division from CILAS (Orléans, France). The PSA instruments are based on the light scattering principle or image analysis. They give information about the size distribution and shape of particles. Applications range from investigations into dry powders to studies... Read more

Park Systems Introduces Park NX12 for Unsurpassed Affordable High Resolution NanoScale Imaging Required for Advanced Analytical Chemistry, Materials Research, and Multi-User Facility

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 5, 2017 Park Systems, world-leading manufacturer of Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), just announced new Park NX12, an affordable versatile platform for analytical chemistry and electrochemistry researchers and multi-user facilities. Park NX12 features a versatile Inverted Optical Microscope (IOM) based SPM platform for SICM, SECM, and SECCM, in addition to Atomic Force... Read more

Shimadzu Corporation and Phytronix Technologies sign an agreement to offer the first Triple Ion Source (LDTD-MS/MS, ESI-MS/MS and APCI-MS/MS).

Kyoto, Japan and Québec, Canada – June 5, 2017. Shimadzu, one of the world’s fastest growing mass spectrometry companies, and Phytronix, world leader in high throughput analysis in mass spectrometry, announce today that they have signed an agreement to offer the industry’s first Triple Ion Source. Ideal for both screening and confirmation work, this new... Read more

Neogen launches sesame food allergen test kit

CONTACT: Jennifer Baker, Neogen Corporation, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., June 5, 2017 — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) has expanded its comprehensive line of food allergen test kits to include a test for sesame that can be used to screen samples at a set level, or provide precise quantitative results. Neogen’s new Veratox® for Sesame Allergen test... Read more

Bristol-Myers Squibb and QIAGEN Sign Agreement for Use of NGS Technology to Develop Gene Expression Profiles for Immuno-Oncology Therapies

NEW YORK and HILDEN, Germany, (June 3, 2017) – Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and QIAGEN(NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) have signed an agreement to explore the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to develop gene expression profiles (GEPs) as  predictive or prognostic tools for  use with Bristol-Myers Squibb novel immuno-oncology (I-O) therapies in... Read more

QIAGEN expands biomarker content portfolio to support greater use of molecular diagnostics for immuno-oncology therapies

Option to add new biomarkers for microsatellite instability (MSI) and mismatch repair (MMR) to QIAGEN’ s NGS panels Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland, June 3, 2017 – QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced it has received a worldwide license from The Johns Hopkins University for biomarkers that have been shown to play... Read more

Zymo Research to Launch Three New Kits for Microbiome Research at ASM Microbe 2017

Improves accuracy, decreases steps in a microbiomic workflow NEWS PROVIDED BY Zymo Research Corp. 02 Jun, 2017, 11:05 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE NEW ORLEANS, June 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Zymo Research Corp. will introduce the newest in its line of kits for microbiomic research. The AccuBIOME™ Amplicon Sequencing Kit utilizes real-time PCR instead of regular PCR... Read more

Tecan appoints Erik Norström Head of Corporate Development

Männedorf, Switzerland, June 2, 2017 – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that Erik Norström has been appointed Head of Corporate Development and a member of the Management Board. He will assume his new position at Tecan no later than December 1, 2017.Erik Norström held a number of Corporate Development and M&A... Read more