June 28, 2017 Lab Equipment Lab Top-10 Licensing, IP, and Legal

MilliporeSigma Wins False Advertising Lawsuit Against Distributor of RephiLe Bioscience Lab Water Products

June 27, 2017 MilliporeSigma Wins False Advertising Lawsuit Against Distributor of RephiLe Bioscience Lab Water Products Analis S.A. ordered to cease all illegal advertising following MilliporeSigma lawsuit Belgian distributor claimed RephiLe Bioscience’s lab water purification products were equivalent to MilliporeSigma’s Analis’ advertisements found misleading by Belgian court MilliporeSigma, a leading science and technology company, today... Read more

June 27, 2017 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Lab Top-10 Product Launch

New Enrichment Media Formats Offer Reduced Preparation Time to Food Microbiology Laboratories

Thermo_Fisher_Scientific_Logo Thermo Fisher Scientific QuickBag, 4.5L Thermo Fisher Scientific FitBag 4.5L Help streamline media preparation workflows and increase productivity BASINGSTOKE, England, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — To facilitate operational efficiency in food microbiology laboratories, a new range of bagged enrichment media is designed to reduce hands-on preparation time. The bags contain pre-weighed, ready-to-hydrate, gamma-irradiated enrichment media... Read more

June 26, 2017 Lab Top-10 Molecular Spectroscopy

Bruker Announces Novel NMR Phenomics Research Capabilities

BRISBANE, Australia, June 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — At the Metabolomics Society Meeting 2017, Bruker announces a new solution for the quantification of metabolites in urine using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). Urine metabolic analysis is particularly valuable and information-rich, because the metabolic pathways of a wide range of nutrients, drugs and environmental contaminants can be identified in urine,... Read more

June 26, 2017 Informatics & Software Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Genomics England Adopts Illumina’s BaseSpace Variant Interpreter for Cancer

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) and Genomics England announced today that Illumina is the primary variant interpretation and reporting software vendor for tumor and matched normal samples characterized as part of the 100,000 Genomes Project. In a little over a year since Illumina announced the Bioinformatics and Clinical Interpretation Partnership with Genomics England, the partnership has now set... Read more

June 22, 2017 Lab Top-10 PR/Corporate

Waters Corporation Elects Flemming Ornskov to Board of Directors

June 22, 2017 04:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time MILFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced Dr. Flemming Ornskov, Chief Executive Officer of Shire plc, has been elected as a Director of Waters® Corporation effective today. “It is an honor to welcome Flemming Ornskov to our Board of Directors,” said Christopher J. O’Connell, Waters Corporation President... Read more

June 20, 2017 Lab Top-10 PR/Corporate

Danaher Announces Pricing Of Euro-Denominated Senior Notes Offering

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) (“Danaher”) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, DH Europe Finance S.A. (“Danaher International”), has priced an offering of: €250 million principal amount of floating rate senior notes due 2022 at an offering price of 100.147% of the principal amount; and €600 million principal amount of... Read more

June 20, 2017 Atomic Spectroscopy Chromatography Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 Mass Spectrometry

High-Sensitivity Simultaneous Analysis of Chiral Amino Acids in 10 Minutes without Derivatization Release of the LC/MS/MS Method Package for D/L Amino Acids Contributing to Various Fields Such as Fermented Foods, Clinical and Antiaging Research

The 20 amino acids that form the structure of proteins exist as mirror image optical isomers: the D-amino acids (D-form) and the L-amino acids (L-form) (chiral amino acids)*1). The L-form of amino acids exists in large quantities in foods and in the body as the structural elements of proteins and as nutritional sources. As food... Read more

June 19, 2017 Chromatography Lab Top-10 Product Launch

Agilent Technologies Unveils New Analytical and Purification Solutions at HPLC 2017

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 19, 2017 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the introduction of several new products to complete the InfinityLab LC series, part of the InfinityLab family of instruments, columns, and supplies that work seamlessly together, alongside Agilent OpenLAB software and Agilent CrossLab services, to provide highly efficient workflows for customers. The... Read more

June 19, 2017 Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

PerkinElmer to Acquire EUROIMMUN for Approximately $1.3 Billion

Accelerates revenue and earnings growth by adding leading positions in autoimmune and allergy diagnostics and strengthens leadership in China and other emerging markets Significant opportunity to leverage technologies, strong market positions and synergistic commercial activities to deliver better solutions across an expanding customer base Highly compelling deployment of capital, significantly advancing PerkinElmer’s strategic priorities and... Read more