INFICON Acquires Final Phase Systems

10/04/2018 End-to-end Software Solution for Fully Connected Smart Fab of the Future   Syracuse, NY, USA On October 1, 2018 INFICON Inc., a leading supplier of vacuum instrumentation and process control software to the semiconductor manufacturing industry acquired all assets of Final Phase Systems (FPS) of Austin, Texas, USA.  Founded in 2009 by Industrial Engineers... Read more

University College London in Strategic Alliance with Pall Biotech to Open Fit-for-Purpose Biotech Centre of Excellence for Research, Development and Training

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., Oct. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has progressed a strategic partnership with the University College London (UCL) Biochemical Engineering department with the creation of the UCL-Pall Biotech Centre of Excellence (CoE) for research and training. The UCL-Pall Biotech CoE will be operational from September 2018 through 2024 with a management committee... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Sixth Licensing Agreement for B•R•A•H•M•S PCT

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Sixth Licensing Agreement for B•R•A•H•M•S PCT Siemens Healthineers Recent FDA Clearance of the Atellica IM B•R•A•H•M•S PCT Assay Extends Access of Procalcitonin to More U.S. Laboratories WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., today announced the sixth licensing agreement for its B·R·A·H·M·S PCT (procalcitonin) biomarker that provides information... Read more

Seoul St. Mary's Hospital and Singapore General Hospital Join Thermo Fisher Scientific's Next-Generation Sequencing Center of Excellence Program

Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital and Singapore General Hospital Join Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Next-Generation Sequencing Center of Excellence Program Newest partners announced during company’s Global Strategic Partner Summit in Boston BOSTON, Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, part of Catholic Medical Center (CMC) in South Korea, and Singapore General Hospital are the newest... Read more

Miltenyi Biotec acquires microscopy specialist LaVision BioTec

BERGISCH GLADBACH, BIELEFELD, Oct 12, 2018 – Miltenyi Biotec strengthens its portfolios for cell analysis and preclinical imaging by acquiring premium expertise in microscopy. BERGISCH GLADBACH, BIELEFELD, Oct 12, 2018 – Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, a global provider of products and services for advancing biomedical research and cellular therapy, announced today that it has acquired the high-end microscopy specialist... Read more

PharmaFluidics Facilitates Ultra-high-resolution Proteomics Analysis Through Agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific

PharmaFluidics NV, an innovative bio-analytical chromatography company, announced today that it entered into a Partnership Agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, a global Life Sciences Tools and Instruments leader. The agreement empowers PharmaFluidics to sell Thermo Fisher custom-made EASY-Spray™ transfer lines, in combo sets with PharmaFluidics’ own line of µPAC™ chromatography micro-Chips, to constitute an... Read more

Top of the Class: GE Healthcare Expands Collaboration with SonoSim to Offer Ultrasound Training to Primary Care & Point of Care Users

San Diego, California – October 1 2018 – GE Healthcare has announced today an equity investment in SonoSim, a global leader in ultrasound education and training. The expanded partnership will offer enhanced education services to new and existing ultrasound users around the world and across medical disciplines from women’s health and cardiology to point of care... Read more

Bruker Announces Breakthrough Proteomics and Lipidomics Workflow Advances for the timsTOF™ Pro at HUPO 2018

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — At the 17th Annual World Congress of the Human Proteome Organization (www.hupo.org), Bruker announces next-generation workflows for the timsTOF Pro mass spectrometer. Introduced a year ago at the HUPO conference in Dublin, this revolutionary mass spectrometry platform is a new enabling technology for ultra-high sensitivity proteomics and large-cohort clinical... Read more

PerkinElmer and DBT- ICT Inaugurate “explorer™ G3 Project” – an Advanced High-Throughput Screening Facility

MUMBAI, India–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, collaborated with Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) to open “explorerTM G3 Project,” an advanced high-throughput screening facility at DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences, Mumbai. The facility was inaugurated by Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Union Ministry for Science... Read more

Baylor-Hopkins Clinical Genome Center (BHCGC) Announces Major Role in National Institutes of Health Precision Medicine Research Effort

DNAnexus selected by BHCGC to serve as its primary portal for communication and data sharing with the All of Us Research Program. September 27, 2018 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) today announced participation in the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program, a large-scale effort to advance... Read more