April 15, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. M&A, Partnerships

Sutter Health, UPMC, and DNAnexus Initiate Collaboration to Improve Personalized Treatments for People with Multiple Sclerosis

First large-scale clinico-genomic MS study by leading healthcare system to advance research by building multi-dimensional datasets from a diverse population of more than 3,000 patients April 15, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & SACRAMENTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DNAnexus, Inc., and the not-for-profit Sutter Health network today announced the first large-scale clinico-genomic multiple sclerosis (MS) research... Read more

April 12, 2019 Informatics & Software M&A, Partnerships

Scilligence and Elsevier collaborate to enhance lab efficiency

The first-ever integration between an electronic lab notebook (ELN) and a chemistry research database will rely on FAIR principles to improve experiments and reduce manual curation New York, April 12, 2019 Scilligence, a provider of cheminformatics and bioinformatics solutions for the life sciences industry, has selected Elsevier’s Reaxys to help chemists improve efficiency and productivity. Chemists often... Read more

April 12, 2019 Industrial Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Versum Materials for $53 per Share

12 APR 2019 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Business combination creates a leading electronic materials player able to capitalize on attractive long-term secular growth drivers Versum is a “Best in Class” asset with industry-leading financial metrics Expected to be immediately accretive to earnings per share pre (EPS pre) €75 million in expected run-rate synergies by the third full year... Read more

April 11, 2019 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev

HORIBA Donates Water Quality Analyzers to the Yangon City Development Committee in Myanmar

11 April 2019 HORIBA, Ltd. announced that, together with one of its Group companies, HORIBA Advanced Techno Co., Ltd., on February 5, 2019, it donated water quality analyzers to the Yangon City Development Committee (hereinafter, “YCDC”).Since March 2018, HORIBA has been participated in the Yangon City Sewage Treatment Plant Management and Maintenance Capacity Building Improvement... Read more

April 11, 2019 Chromatography Lab Top-10 Mass Spectrometry Microscopy PR/Corporate

Pittcon 2019: On an Upward Trajectory

This year, the 70th annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon), held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA, featured a number of new events and sessions. Included among them were a birthday celebration and the unveiling of the newly made-over Pete Conn, the conference mascot. Pittcon opened on Saturday, March... Read more

April 10, 2019 Chromatography PR/Corporate

Dr. Milton L. Lee, Axcend Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer, Receives the Prestigious 2019 ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry

Established in 1947 by the American Chemical Society, the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry “recognizes and encourages outstanding contributions to the science of analytical chemistry, pure or applied, carried out in the United States or Canada.” PROVO, Utah, April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Axcend today announced that its Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Milton L. Lee, Ph.D., has received the... Read more

April 9, 2019 Molecular Spectroscopy

BYK Opens New Site in Shanghai

Shanghai/Wesel, April 9, 2019 BYK is expanding its presence in Asia through a significant investment in China Second integrated site in China to better serve needs of customers locally BYK is expanding its operations in the Shanghai region to meet the anticipated growth in demand in the key Chinese market. The Asia region accounts for... Read more

April 8, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. Licensing, IP, and Legal

Bio-Rad Receives U.S. FDA Clearance for the IH-500, Expanding Its Offering for the Blood Testing Market

Date: 04/08/2019 HERCULES, Calif.–Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Bio-Rad’s IH-500, an automated random access system for blood typing and screening. The IH-500 system was designed for small-... Read more