December 20, 2018 PR/Corporate

ZEISS Completes Venture Investment in Advanced LiDAR Company Bridger Photonics

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, BOZEMAN/Montana/USA, 2018-12-20. Bridger Photonics, Inc., a Montana-based company founded in 2006, providing precision LiDAR solutions to enable new capabilities and improved efficiency for industrial sensor applications, has closed its Series A funding round in November 2018. The internationally leading technology enterprise in the fields of optics and optoelectronics, ZEISS, is the sole minority investor... Read more

December 20, 2018 Lab Top-10 PR/Corporate

Bruker Comments on Block Trade Transaction

BILLERICA, Mass., Dec. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) has been advised that former board member, Mr. Joerg C. Laukien, has authorized a block sale of Bruker shares as part of his retirement planning and portfolio diversification. Joerg Laukien retired from the Bruker board of directors effective November 5, 2018. He is the brother... Read more

December 19, 2018 Lab Equipment Product Launch

Eppendorf CryoCube® F740 ULT freezers now all-green

19.12.2018 Hamburg, December 2018 Eppendorf reached a further milestone of sustainability by focusing the flagship ULT freezer CryoCube F740 series on future-proof green cooling liquids only: The new F740h, the advanced F740hi, and the water-cooled F740hiw. By combining longevity and quality with sustainability aspects, the CryoCube F740h is the entry model of the CryoCube F740... Read more

December 19, 2018 PR/Corporate

Disclosure according to Article 5 Section (1) and (6) of the EU Regulation 596/2014 and Article 2 Section (1) of the Delegated EU Regulation 2016/1052/ Share Repurchase

DEC 19 2018 QIAGEN N.V. announces that it will initiate the repurchase of a third tranche of shares under the share repurchase program which was announced by an ad hoc announcement dated January 31, 2018. In the time period between December 19, 2018 until March 8, 2019, at the latest, a third tranche of up... Read more

December 19, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn.

United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Recommends NanoString’s Prosigna Breast Cancer Gene Signature Assay to Guide Chemotherapy Treatment Decisions for Qualified Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancer Patients

PDF Version SEATTLE, Dec. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that health officials from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom recently issued a recommendation that includes the use of the Prosigna® Breast Cancer Gene Signature Assay result to... Read more

December 19, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Licensing, IP, and Legal

bioMérieux receives FDA clearance for BPA and BPN culture bottles used with BACT/ALERT® VIRTUO® for quality control testing of platelets

19 December, 2018 bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announces that its culture bottles BACT/ALERT® BPA and BPN have received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for quality control testing of leukocyte-reduced apheresis platelet (LRAP) units with the BACT/ALERT® VIRTUO® fully automated blood culture system. This innovative FDA cleared and CE marked... Read more

December 18, 2018 M&A, Partnerships

Teledyne to Acquire Scientific Imaging Businesses of Roper Technologies

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and SARASOTA, Fla. – December 19, 2018 – Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) (“Teledyne”) and Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ROP) (“Roper”) jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire the Scientific Imaging businesses of Roper for $225 million in cash. The Scientific Imaging businesses include Princeton... Read more

December 18, 2018 Molecular Spectroscopy Product Launch

B&W Tek Announces Updates to NanoRam® Software

Posted on December 18, 2018 Newark, DE, December 18, 2018–B&W Tek, a mobile spectroscopy solutions company that delivers lab quality Raman, LIBS, UV-Vis and NIR solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, recently released the latest versions of their NanoRam® operating and data management software packages: NOS V5.16 and NID V5.16.These updates were designed to provide users with improvements in... Read more

December 18, 2018 Licensing, IP, and Legal

USDA approves Reveal® Q+ for Aflatoxin with Raptor® reader

LANSING, Mich., Dec. 18, 2018 — Neogen Corporation announced today that the USDA’s Federal Grain Inspection Service (USDA-FGIS) has awarded a Certificate of Conformance for the Reveal® Q+ for Aflatoxin test kit used with Neogen’s new Raptor® Integrated Analysis Platform system. Neogen’s Reveal Q+ for Aflatoxin test delivers fast and precise results, and is certified for a wide variety... Read more

December 17, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. M&A, Partnerships

Arrayit Corporation Fulfills Clinical Instrumentation Contract with the United States Food and Drug Administration

By GlobeNewswire, December 31, 2018, 05:30:00 AM EDT: Source Arrayit Corporation By GlobeNewswire, December 17, 2018, 05:30:00 AM EDT: Source Arrayit Corporation Sunnyvale, Dec. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Arrayit Corporation (OTC: ARYC), a life sciences and personalized medicine company, reports fulfillment of a clinical instrumentation contract with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA),... Read more