VWR Acquires MESM Ltd.

RADNOR, Pa., April 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), the leading global independent provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production customers, announced today that it has acquired MESM Ltd., a provider of laboratory and medical equipment and ancillary supplies to clinical trials worldwide. Widely respected by customers for its ability to... Read more

MilliporeSigma Announces First Stops in National Curiosity Cube™ Tour

News Release April 5, 2017 Your Contact: Karen Tiano +1 978-495-0093 Mobile science lab to visit nine locations through June 2017 Billerica, Massachusetts, April 5, 2017 — MilliporeSigma today announced nine stops for the first half of its national, year-long Curiosity Cube™ tour. Built on the company’s successful Curiosity Labs™ program, the Curiosity Cube™ — a... Read more

Seven Bridges Announces Strategic Partnership With Spatial Transcriptomics

Relationship Aims to Advance Development of Innovative Tools for Visualizing and Analyzing Gene Expression within Tissue Samples April 4, 2017 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 4, 2017 –Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced an investment in Spatial Transcriptomics, a life sciences start-up developing innovative technology to analyze tissue samples and gene expression data in... Read more

Xylem increases its 2020 financial targets and reaffirms its strategy to reflect accelerated growth driven by acquisitions

Company also reaffirms full-year 2017 guidance RYE BROOK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apr. 4, 2017– At its Investor Day in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, Xylem (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company, today will update its 2020 financial guidance and showcase the broad portfolio of smart infrastructure technologies and solutions provided by its Sensus and Visenti businesses. Xylem acquired... Read more

Fabric Genomics and TOMA Biosciences Partner to Provide Clinical Labs with Seamless Integration of Tumor Profiling and Reporting of Somatic Variants in Cancer

American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting April 03, 2017 05:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time OAKLAND, Calif. & FOSTER CITY, Calif. & WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fabric Genomics, a global computational genomics company, and TOMA Biosciences, a genomic cancer diagnostics company, announced today a partnership that will bring together premier chemistry and informatics platforms for deepened genomic analysis... Read more

Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) acquires leading biopharma software developer Umetrics

Leading data analytics software to optimize process development and production of biopharmaceuticals Swedish company already an SSB cooperation partner since 2012 2017 financial guidance confirmed Aubagne, April 3, 2017 – Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading supplier to the biopharma industry, today acquired the Umetrics business (MKS Instruments AB) from the U.S. based MKS Instruments Group.... Read more

MKS Announces Sale of Data Analytics Solutions Business to Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Andover, Mass., April 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, today announced that it has completed the sale of its Data Analytics Solutions business to Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Euronext Paris:DIM), a leading supplier to the biopharmaceutical industry, for $72.5 million on... Read more

GE Healthcare signs agreement with HealthTrust to supply radiopharmaceuticals

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and Nashville, Tennessee, USA – 3rd April 2017 – GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with HealthTrust, a group purchasing organization headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, to provide both low energy (SPECT) and high energy (PET) radiopharmaceuticals to HealthTrust members across the United States. The agreement commenced on March 1, 2017. Marco... Read more

Nile Scan & Lab in Egypt selects GE’s latest Discovery IQ PET/CT to support the early detection of cancer

As part of its ongoing commitment to provide quality healthcare for Egyptians and accelerating solutions to detect cancer early, GE Healthcare today announced that it has supplied Nile Scan & Labs with its exceptional Positron Emission Tomography/ Computed Tomography (PET/CT) molecular imaging system. The new GE Discovery IQ PET/CT comes with advanced early disease detection... Read more