PerkinElmer Completes Sale of Medical Imaging Business to Varex Imaging

WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that the company has completed the sale of its Medical Imaging business to Varex Imaging Corporation (Nasdaq: VREX). PerkinElmer announced its intent to sell its Medical Imaging business, a supplier of flat panel X-ray detectors that... Read more

Bruker Corporation to Present at the 42nd Annual Deutsche Bank Health Care Conference

BILLERICA, Mass., April 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) announced today it will present at the 42nd annual Deutsche Bank Health Care Conference at The InterContinental Hotel, 510 Atlantic Avenue, Boston. Frank Laukien, Chairman, President & CEO will participate in a “fireside chat” Q&A session on behalf of the company on Thursday, May... Read more

MilliporeSigma Collaborates with LabCentral to Foster Biotech Startups

News Release April 25, 2017 Your Contact: Karen Tiano  +1 978 495 0093 Billerica, Massachusetts, April 25, 2017 — MilliporeSigma announced today that the company will sponsor the Startup Program at LabCentral, a biotechnology incubator, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. LabCentral is a private, non-profit organization that provides entrepreneurs and innovative life-sciences startups with lab space and... Read more

Bruker Introduces New Clinical Microbiology Assays and Kits at ECCMID

VIENNA, April 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — At the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Bruker tomorrow will introduce important new clinical microbiology assays and consumables kits to further enhance the MALDI Biotyper® (MBT) platform.  Bruker will also introduce novel, real-time PCR assays and kits for fast molecular testing of invasive aspergillosis... Read more

Multi-Center Clinical Study Confirms Decreased Levels of Procalcitonin as an Independent Predictor of Mortality in Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. today announced that results from the multi-center Procalcitonin MOnitoring SEpsis (MOSES) Study have been published in the May 2017 print issue of Critical Care Medicine. Researchers from the study, titled “Serial Procalcitonin Predicts Mortality in Severe Sepsis Patients: Results From the Multicenter Procalcitonin MOnitoring SEpsis (MOSES) Study,” investigated the use of... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Establishes Institute of Pathology at University Hospital Basel as Center of Excellence Partner

Thermo Fisher Scientific has signed an agreement with the Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology at University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, to establish the leading institution as the first partner in the Next Generation Sequencing Companion Dx Center of Excellence Program, a new initiative designed to develop and refine Thermo Fisher’s NGS-based research assays from its... Read more