December 8, 2021 Licensing, IP, and Legal M&A, Partnerships

Covalent Metrology and JEOL Announce Partnership, Silicon Valley Demonstration Facility

The two leaders announced a partnership that includes a new JEOL demonstration facility located in Covalent’s Silicon Valley lab. The partnership will accelerate applications development and broaden client access to a suite of state-of-art instrumentation and analytical services. December 07, 2021 – Sunnyvale, CA. Covalent Metrology, a leading North American provider of analytical services, announces... Read more

December 8, 2021 Lab Top-10 PAI Top-10

Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of PPD, Inc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of PPD, Inc. WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPD), a leading global provider of clinical research services to the biopharma and biotech industry, for... Read more

December 8, 2021 Lab Top-10 PAI Top-10 Product Launch

PerkinElmer Launches NEXTFLEX Variant-Seq SARS-CoV-2 Kit v2 to Strengthen SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance

New NGS workflow accelerates the detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants including Omicron WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 8, 2021– PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced the research use only (RUO) launch of the NEXTFLEX® Variant-Seq™ SARS-CoV-2 Kit v2 to accelerate the detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants. This complete next... Read more

December 8, 2021 Lab Top-10

Bruker Announces $500 Million Private Placement of Senior Notes to Support Strategic Growth Objectives

BILLERICA, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) announced today that it has completed a new private placement of 10-year senior notes in the aggregate principal amount of $500 million to enhance its financial flexibility and fund strategic growth objectives. Gerald Herman, Bruker’s Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, commented “This new debt financing capitalizes... Read more

December 7, 2021 M&A, Partnerships Process Analytical Instr.

AMETEK Announces Three Acquisitions

Monday, March 29, 2021 – Magnetrol International Expands AMETEK’s Leading Level Measurement Solutions –– Crank Software Provides Leading Graphical User Interface Design Capabilities –– EGS Automation Enhances AMETEK Dunkermotoren’s Automation Solutions Portfolio – BERWYN, PA, MARCH 29, 2021 – AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that it has completed three acquisitions – Magnetrol International, Crank Software... Read more

December 7, 2021 Atomic Spectroscopy Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

PacBio and UCLA Health Announce Research Collaboration for Whole Genome Sequencing in Rare Diseases

MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PacBio (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing platforms, and the UCLA Institute for Precision Health and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have formed a research collaboration to further identify the causes of rare diseases. The study will leverage PacBio’s HiFi... Read more

December 7, 2021 Microscopy

Actemra/RoActemra approved by the European Commission to treat patients with severe COVID-19

EMA’s CHMP recommended the approval yesterday Approval based on results from four phase III studies in over 5,500 patients Actemra/RoActemra has also been provisionally approved in Australia for the treatment of COVID-19 Basel, 07 December 2021 – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that the European Commission has extended the marketing authorisation for... Read more

December 6, 2021 Uncategorized

Roche completed the repurchase of Roche shares from Novartis

Basel, 6 December 2021 – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that it completed the repurchase of Roche shares that had been held by Novartis. On 4 November 2021, Roche and Novartis had announced this repurchase. The Extraordinary General Meeting of Roche Holding Ltd passed the resolutions required for the repurchase and the... Read more