August 28, 2017 Chromatography Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

MilliporeSigma to Acquire Natrix Separations to Advance Next-Generation Processing Capabilities

Boosts MilliporeSigma’s single-use chromatography portfolio Accelerates MilliporeSigma’s mAb and vaccine manufacturing offering Billerica, Massachusetts, August 28, 2017 — MilliporeSigma today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Natrix Separations, an Ontario, Canada-based provider of hydrogel membrane products for single-use chromatography. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 of 2017. Financial details were not disclosed.... Read more

August 28, 2017 Bio/Pharma/CRO Lab Top-10 Microscopy

Shimadzu's Updated LabSolutions Analytical Data SystemAdds Supplementary Data Integrity Functionsfor the Pharmaceutical Industry

Since the spring of 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the British Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and other regulatory agencies have strengthened the monitoring of quality assurance at pharmaceutical companies. Companies must now show that nothing improper has been done when using analytical instruments. In addition, in graphs showing data... Read more

August 24, 2017 Lab Top-10 PR/Corporate

Agilent Technologies to Present at Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference

SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 24, 2017 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced the following webcast for the investment community: Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City Tuesday, September 12, at 2:05 p.m. EDT Mark Doak, President, Agilent’s CrossLab Group A link to the webcast will be available at www.investor.agilent.com. About Agilent... Read more

August 24, 2017 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Illumina and Telegraph Hill Partners Launch Verogen, Inc. to Drive Adoption of Next-Generation Sequencing in the Global Forensic Genomics Market

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced plans with Telegraph Hill Partners (THP), a San Francisco-based venture capital and growth equity firm, to establish Verogen, Inc. The independent new company has certain exclusive rights to provide Illumina’s forensic sequencing technology to forensic customers, including for criminal casework and other human and nonhuman forensic applications.... Read more

August 23, 2017 Lab Top-10 PR/Corporate

PerkinElmer to Present at Baird Global Healthcare Conference

WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that the Company will present at the Baird Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:50 am ET at the InterContinental New York Barclay. Andy Wilson, PerkinElmer’s chief financial officer, will provide an overview... Read more

August 23, 2017 Lab Top-10 Licensing, IP, and Legal M&A, Partnerships

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Receipt of All Required Regulatory Approvals for Proposed Acquisition of Patheon

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Receipt of All Required Regulatory Approvals for Proposed Acquisition of Patheon Tender Offer Scheduled to Expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on August 28, 2017 WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced that all required antitrust clearances have... Read more

August 22, 2017 Lab Top-10 Licensing, IP, and Legal

Agilent Technologies Vigorously Pursues Intellectual Property Protection

Files civil lawsuit against Shanghai Echrom Electronic Technology Co., including former Agilent employees August 22, 2017 08:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time BEIJING–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) has filed a civil lawsuit against Shanghai Echrom Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., and several former employees of Agilent, alleging infringement of trade secrets and petitioning the court to stop... Read more

August 22, 2017 Lab Top-10 Microscopy Product Launch

Bruker and DECTRIS Announce Advances in D8™ X-ray Diffraction Systems with the New EIGER2 R 500K Detector

HYDERABAD, India, Aug. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — At the 24th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), Bruker and DECTRIS today announce the EIGER2 R 500K, the latest generation of Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) pixel detectors developed by DECTRIS, the technology leader for HPC detectors for laboratory instrumentation and synchrotron beam lines.... Read more

August 22, 2017 Lab Top-10 Uncategorized

Development of Film Coating Technology for Electromagnetically Transmittable Films Film Coating of Electromagnetically Transmittable Films to Support Millimeter-Wave Radar in Automobile Emblems

This new electromagnetically transmittable film coating technology uses a special material on the surface of the material to form a base layer of an organic film, coating this with chromium using a method called sputtering. When this is heated, stress differences occur due to differences in the thermal expansion coefficients of the organic film and... Read more