01 DEC 2018 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Closing of sale to Procter & Gamble at a cash purchase price of € 3.4 billion completed Successful completion allows Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, to further focus on innovation driven businesses in Healthcare, Life Science and Performance Materials Transaction successfully closed within an ambitious timeframe Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and... Read more
SHANGHAI, Nov. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today opened its first Bioprocess Design Center in Shanghai, China. The new center is part of a strategy to establish a center of excellence where Thermo Fisher scientists can connect and collaborate with biologic developers to design optimal bioprocessing solutions. The 2,700-square-meter... Read more
KELOWNA, BC, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ – Valens GroWorks Corp. (CSE: VGW,OTC: MYMSF) (the “Company” or “Valens“), a licensed, vertically integrated provider of cannabis products and services focused on various proprietary extraction methodologies, distillation, cannabinoid isolation and purification, as well as associated quality testing is pleased to announce it has established an expanded research collaboration agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific.... Read more
Featuring Major Advances in AFM Technology for Nanoscale Quantification SANTA BARBARA, California – November 28, 2018 – Bruker today announced the release of the Dimension XR™ family of scanning probe microscopes (SPMs). These new systems incorporate major AFM innovations, including Bruker’s proprietary and exclusive DataCube nanoelectrical modes, AFM-SECM for energy research, and the new AFM-nDMA mode, which for... Read more
Providing First and Only AFM Viscoelastic Measurements that Match Bulk DMA BOSTON, Massachusetts – November 27, 2018 – At the 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Bruker today announced the release of the AFM-nDMA™ mode for Dimension® atomic force microscopes (AFMs). Going beyond the quantitative elastic modulus mapping enabled by Bruker’s exclusive PeakForce QNM® mode, AFM-nDMA provides first and... Read more
27 NOV 2018 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY MilliporeSigma’s proxy-CRISPR wins Special Recognition Market Disruptor — Products award Burlington, Massachusetts, November 27, 2018 – MilliporeSigma today announced that it has won two R&D 100 Awards. The 56th annual R&D 100 Awards program, honoring the 100 most innovative and significant technologies introduced in the past year, recognized MilliporeSigma for its BioReliance® Viral and Gene Therapy Assay... Read more
Nov 27 2018 Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) announces the release of the new Shim-pack Velox columns with core-shell technology that are designed to maximize performance of LC systems. These columns enable users to achieve increased separations and faster analysis times on any LC platform. The core-shell columns provide excellent lifetime for the most challenging sample matrices. Shim-pack... Read more
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, November 26, 2018 – Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: ATI) and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bruker Corporation, today announced that they have entered into a joint technology development agreement to advance state-of-the-art niobium-based superconductors, including those used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnets for the medical industry,... Read more
Innovative Cost-Effective Solution Provides Pregnant WomenWidespread Access to Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 26, 2018– PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that its Vanadis® NIPT system has obtained CE-IVD mark for commercialization and distribution throughout Europe and other countries that accept CE marking. This... Read more