March 26, 2019 Industrial Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Commences Tender Offer for All Outstanding Shares of Versum for $48 in Cash and Solicits Votes on Definitive Proxy Statement

26 MAR 2019 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Demonstrates firm commitment to completing its acquisition of Versum Issues open letter to Versum shareholders urging them to vote GREEN proxy card against inferior Entegris acquisition Darmstadt, Germany, March 26, 2019 – Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, today commenced a cash Tender Offer to acquire all... Read more

March 26, 2019 Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Illumina and the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre Collaborate to Generate One of the Largest Ancient Genome Datasets to Decode the Genetic Origins and Evolution of Mental Health Issues

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) and the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark partner to explore the relationship between the evolutionary history of select mental and neurological disorders and infectious pathogens. One of the first projects of its kind worldwide, the endeavor aims to acquire new knowledge in terms of the medical... Read more

March 25, 2019 Lab Top-10 PR/Corporate

Agilent Recognized as Great Place to Work in Europe

Agilent Recognized as Great Place to Work in Europe Company receives awards from Great Place to Work Institute in both Germany and Spain SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 25, 2019 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that surveys conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute indicate that Agilent ranks among the best places to work... Read more

March 25, 2019 Lab Top-10 Mass Spectrometry

Bruker Announces Further Progress in 4D Proteomics and Additional Novel timsTOF Pro™ Workflows at EuPA 2019

– New workflows for next-generation 4D metabolomics, leveraging routine, accurate and large-scale collision cross section (CCS) determinations on timsTOF Pro POTSDAM, Germany, March 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — At the XIIIth Annual Congress of the European Proteomics Association (www.eupa.org), Bruker announces further progress in ultra-high sensitivity, high-throughput 4D proteomics using the timsTOF Pro mass spectrometer.  Moreover,... Read more

March 24, 2019 Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

Thermo Fisher Scientific to Acquire Brammer Bio, a Leader in Viral Vector Manufacturing

Significantly expands capabilities to support high-growth gene and cell therapy market WALTHAM, Mass. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, and Brammer Bio, a leader in viral vector manufacturing for gene and cell therapies, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement... Read more

March 22, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 Licensing, IP, and Legal Liq. Handling & Robotics

Bruker Announces Improved Assay for Tuberculosis Diagnostics in Novel Liquid Array™ Format for Improved Multiplexing

– Expanded FluoroType™ MTBDR 2.0 Liquid Array molecular assay with CE-IVD mark provides highly differentiated tuberculosis (TB) detection and antibiotic resistance testing – Novel FluoroCycler™ XT PCR system with CE-IVD mark enables new Liquid Array format NEHREN, Germany, March 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — In time for the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2019 on Sunday, March... Read more

March 21, 2019 Chromatography Lab Top-10 Microscopy PR/Corporate

Thermo Fisher Scientific Instruments Recognized by SelectScience

PHILADELPHIA, March 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Pittcon 2019 — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it has received the Scientists’ Choice Award for the Best New Separations Product of 2018 based on the votes of the global community of SelectScience readers and contributors, as well as special recognition for the... Read more

March 20, 2019 Lab Top-10 Microscopy Product Launch

New Advanced DualBeam Scanning Electron Microscope Designed to Increase Productivity and Accelerate Yield

New Advanced DualBeam Scanning Electron Microscope Designed to Increase Productivity and Accelerate Yield Thermo Scientific Helios 5 DualBeam microscope simplifies semiconductor analysis applications SHANGHAI, March 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today at Semicon China 2019, Thermo Fisher Scientific unveiled its latest and most advanced focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) for nanometer scale materials characterization... Read more

March 20, 2019 Acad, Gov/Utilities Lab Top-10 Liq. Handling & Robotics

PerkinElmer Receives FDA Clearance for EUROIMMUN Anti-Tissue Transglutaminase ELISA

Serological testing plays critical role in helping diagnose patients with celiac disease WHAT: PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that its EUROIMMUN Anti-TissueTransglutaminase (tTG) ELISA has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The test system is designed to help clinicians confirm or exclude... Read more

March 20, 2019 Acad, Gov/Utilities Chromatography Informatics & Software Lab Top-10 Mass Spectrometry Product Launch

Shimadzu Releases New Multi-Omic Data Analysis Package and Relevant Method Packages in Cooperation with the Systems Biology Institute and Osaka University

March 20, 2019 Shimadzu Corporation (head office: Kyoto city; President and CEO: Teruhisa Ueda) announces the release of a Multi-Omic Data Analysis Package designed for metabolic engineering research applications. Using this package, measurement data from Shimadzu mass spectrometers can be loaded in the Garuda*1 open platform and automatically plotted on a metabolic map. The package can... Read more