BILLERICA, Mass., Nov. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Bruker today announced a contract to deliver 133 RAID™ M-100 hand-held chemical detectors, which are based on Bruker’s advanced ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) technology, to the United States National Guard. For deliveries through March 2018, the 133 RAID M-100 units upgrade and enhance the capabilities of the National Guard... Read more
€1.6 million grant will support ‘precise docking of very large DNA cargoes in genomes’ project Cambridge, UK, and Geneva, Switzerland, 27 November 2017: Sphere Fluidics, a company providing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Geneva Biotech, an EMBL spin-out developing world-class viral and non-viral DNA delivery systems, have received a... Read more
November 24, 2017 Establishing a Collaborative Agreement in Data Sciences Shiga University, a national university in Japan, has entered into an agreement with HORIBA, Ltd., HORIBA STEC Co., Ltd. and HORIBA Advanced Techno, Co., Ltd. for a collaborative effort in the fields of data science research and human resource development. The aim of this collaboration... Read more
Chalfont St Giles, UK – 28 November 2017 – GE Healthcare has completed the acquisition of Puridify, a bioprocessing start-up that is developing a nanofiber-based platform purification technology for biopharmaceutical production. Puridify’s technology, FibroSelect, is complementary to the bead resins and chromatography membranes used today in downstream bioprocessing, promising faster mass transfer, scalability and ease... Read more
November 22, 2017 08:55 AM Pacific Standard Time SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and the Protein and Proteomics Centre (PPC) under the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Faculty of Science, today announced plans to launch the first of its kind proteomics and mass spectrometry training centre... Read more
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. and RADNOR, Pa., Nov. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Avantor, Inc., a global supplier of ultra-high-purity materials for the life sciences and advanced technology industries, today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of VWR Corporation (NASDAQ: VWR), the leading global independent provider of product, supply chain, and service solutions to laboratory and production customers. VWR... Read more
Basel, 17 November 2017 Roche to acquire Viewics, Inc. to provide data-driven lab business analytics and add further digital capabilities along the laboratory value chain The Viewics solution allows for efficient integration of big data from a variety of IT systems in the laboratory and beyond, pioneering a new way in extracting, cleansing, transforming and... Read more
Metrohm Raman is pleased to announce its acquisition of Diagnostic anSERS inc. A subsidiary of Metrohm AG, Metrohm Raman is a key manufacturer of handheld Raman spectrometers based in Laramie, Wyoming. This acquisition expands the capabilities of our Mira Raman analyzers from instant materials identification to trace chemical analysis. Dr. Keith Carron, CEO of Metrohm... Read more
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Nov. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, issued the following statement regarding today’s announcement by Merit Medical Systems, Inc. that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BD’s soft tissue core needle biopsy product line and C. R. Bard’s (NYSE:... Read more
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 16, 2017 — Today at the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) 2017 Annual Meeting, Edico Genome announced an affiliation with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). The hospital will utilize Edico Genome’s DRAGENTM Bio-IT platform to deliver enhanced patient care and accelerate research initiatives to expand test offerings for children with genetic disorders and cancer. CHLA... Read more