Neogen chairman to gift stock

LANSING, Mich., April 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that Executive Chairman James Herbert intends to make a significant gift of Neogen stock to a charitable organization that he and his wife have supported for many years. The company advised that according to Herbert’s plan the stock gift might be as much as 400,000 shares... Read more

VICAM Introduces a New Method for BPA Detection

BPATest enables food and agricultural laboratories to isolate and purify BPA for analysis in as little as ten minutes MILFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar. 29, 2018– Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced VICAM®, a Waters® Business, introduced a sensitive, precise determination of Bisphenol A (BPA) for food and agricultural laboratories. VICAM’s BPATest™ quickly isolates and purifies BPA for analysis from 0.1 to 50 parts... Read more

New Salmonella Multiplex PCR Solution for Simultaneous Detection of Three Salmonella Targets in One Rapid Test is Now Certified by AFNOR

New Salmonella Multiplex PCR Solution for Simultaneous Detection of Three Salmonella Targets in One Rapid Test is Now Certified by AFNOR Real-Time PCR workflow gains NF VALIDATION by AFNOR Certification for rapid and simultaneous detection of Salmonella species, Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella Enteritidis BASINGSTOKE, England, March 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Laboratories performing tests for poultry producers... Read more

Pacific Biosciences Announces Ten-Unit Sequel System Order for Annoroad

MENLO PARK, Calif., March 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leader in long-read, high-resolution sequencing, today announced a purchase order for 10 PacBio® Sequel® Systems that are expected to be installed at Annoroad’s designated facility within the next several months, enhancing Annoroad’s large-scale genomic service capabilities across various fields... Read more

Neogen’s Listeria Right Now™ wins CFIA innovation award

CONTACT: Joanne McPeake, Neogen Europe Ltd., +44(0) 1292 525 600 AYR, Scotland, 21 March, 2018 — Neogen’s revolutionary Listeria Right Now™ environmental pathogen detection system has won a 2018 CFIA innovation trophy. The CFIA (Carrefour des Fournisseurs de l’Industrie Agroalimentaire) is an annual agro-food industry supplier fair held in France that showcases the latest developments in food industry technology.... Read more

Food Allergen Screening Method by SCIEX Receives Official Method Classification from the AOAC INTERNATIONAL

Improved mass spec method nears industrial use, promoting a possible shift in global food allergen testing March 13, 2018 Framingham, MA — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced that its highly sensitive method for analyzing food allergens has received the First Action Official Method (FAOM) classification from AOAC INTERNATIONAL’s Official Methods... Read more

Danaher to Acquire Integrated DNA Technologies

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) (the “Company”) and Integrated DNA Technologies (“IDT”) announced today that Danaher has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IDT, a privately-held provider of high-value consumables for genomics applications in molecular biology, qPCR, next generation sequencing, synthetic biology, gene editing and molecular diagnostics.  IDT’s primary... Read more

Agilent and Imperial College London Announce Collaboration Agreement

Agilent and Imperial College London Announce Collaboration Agreement Agilent Measurement Suite to provide researchers with greater experimental freedom SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 28, 2018 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Imperial College London today signed a strategic scientific collaboration agreement that brings together Agilent’s leading analytical technologies with Imperial’s outstanding researchers. Under the agreement, Agilent... Read more

Illumina to Webcast Upcoming Investor Conference Presentation

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that its executives will be speaking at the following investor conference, and invites investors to participate via webcast. Cowen and Company Annual Health Care Conference, Boston, MA on March 13, 2018 at 10:40 am Eastern Time. The webcast can be accessed in the Investor Relations section of Illumina’s web site under the “company” tab at www.illumina.com. About... Read more