Hitachi High-Technologies Launches HM1000 screening equipment for phthalates

(PDF format, 107kBytes) July 13, 2017 – Quick, simple testing for phthalates newly restricted under RoHS directive – Tokyo, Japan, July 13, 2017 – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary and analytical instrument manufacturer and marketer Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation (“HHT Science”) has developed the HM1000 thermal... Read more

BioLife Solutions CryoStor® Cell Freeze Media Embedded in Invossa™: First Approved Cell and Gene Therapy for Osteoarthritis

Korean Approval Received by Kolon Life Science, TissueGene’s Exclusive Licensee BOTHELL, Wash., July 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLFS), the leading supplier of pre-formulated, clinical grade cell and tissue hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media (“BioLife”), today announced that Kolon Life Science, TissueGene’s exclusive licensee for Asia, including Korea, has received marketing approval for Invossa-K Inj., the world’s first cell and... Read more

Teledyne to Acquire Scientific Systems, Inc.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – July 13, 2017 – Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne Instruments, Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire assets of Scientific Systems, Inc. (SSI). Headquartered in State College, Pa., SSI manufactures precision components and specialized subassemblies used primarily in analytical and diagnostic instrumentation, such as High... Read more

Smiths Detection Inc. Launches New E-Commerce Site for all U.S. Markets

11 Jul 2017 Edgewood, MD – Smiths Detection Inc. (SDI) has launched www.MySmithsDetection.com, a new e-commerce management platform aimed at providing leading customer-care services and support to our customers. The platform ensures customers have 24/7/365 capabilities to manage their business and operations including the purchasing, tracking and analysis of their product consumables and accessories. Similar to an earlier... Read more

Emmanuel Ligner named President and CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – 12 July 2017 –  Emmanuel Ligner has been named president and CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences, succeeding Kieran Murphy, who was recently promoted to run parent company, GE Healthcare. Ligner was previously General Manager of GE Healthcare’s Core Imaging Life Sciences business.   “Emmanuel brings a deep knowledge of the Life... Read more

Kailos Genetics Announces Strategic Investment and Partnership with In-Q-Tel

Partnership will further develop Kailos’ leading-edge next-generation sequencing solutions for the intelligence community July 11, 2017 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kailos Genetics, a personalized medicine company offering a leading-edge suite of tools for next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based assays, today announced a strategic partnership with and investment from In-Q-Tel, Inc. (IQT). IQT is the... Read more

Quintara Biosciences Partners with Twist Bioscience to Launch New Gene Fragment and Cloning Services, qBlocks and qGenes

San Francisco, CA – July 11, 2017 – Quintara Biosciences, a leader in DNA sequencing and molecular biology, today announced a new partnership with Twist Bioscience, a company accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis, to launch two new services: qBlock Gene Fragments and qGene DNA cloning.  This partnership leverages the high throughput and... Read more

Twist Bioscience Collaborates with Synbio Technologies to Supply Long DNA to Customers

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 11, 2017 – Twist Bioscience, a company accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis, today announced that it signed a non-exclusive agreement with Synbio Technologies. The companies will partner their respective capabilities to provide customers with access to long-length genes up to 70 kilobases. “We are thrilled to... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific and SRI International Collaborate to Enhance Small Molecule Research

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and SRI International, a research center that creates world-changing solutions, today announced the results of a collaboration agreement to enable researchers to combine the results of high-resolution Orbitrap LC/MS experiments with highly curated and organism-specific metabolic pathway and genome data for quick and effective mass... Read more