Analytik Jena and Fisher Scientific conclude a marketing and sales agreement

15-Jul-2008 - Analytik Jena and Fisher Scientific have entered into a marketing and sales agreement for the German Market. The broad range of reagenetic equipment and instruments of the Jena Group will appear in future in the Fisher Scientific Sales Catalogue and then be distributed and sold via the Fisher ...

Merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific Completed

10-Nov-2006 - Thermo Electron Corporation and Fisher Scientific International Inc. announced that the merger of the two companies has been completed, creating Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.. The companies combined in a tax-free, stock-for-stock transaction following anti-trust clearance received from the ...

Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific Stockholders Approve Merger

04-Sep-2006 - Thermo Electron Corporation and Fisher Scientific International Inc. announced that, at separate special meetings stockholders of both companies have voted to approve their merger. At the Fisher stockholders meeting, more than 99 percent of the shares represented were voted in favor of the ...

Fisher Biosciences Licenses Expanded PCR Rights from Applied Biosystems

03-Jul-2006 - Fisher Biosciences announced today that, through Fisher Scientific, it has entered into an expanded PCR (polymerase chain reaction) licensing agreement with Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business. Under the agreement, Fisher Biosciences will develop new real-time PCR and PCR-related ...

Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific to Combine in Industry-Transforming Transaction

09-May-2006 - Thermo Electron Corporation and Fisher Scientific International Inc. announced that the boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive agreement to combine the two companies in a tax-free, stock-for-stock exchange. According to the companies, the transforming merger ...

Fisher Biosciences strengthens its reagent portfolio through acquisition of BioImage

03-May-2006 - Fisher Biosciences has acquired BioImage to expand its offering in high content screening and analysis reagent technologies. BioImage complements Fisher Biosciences' existing Cellomics business. BioImage is a leader in the field of High Content Pathway analysis, providing the life-science market ...

Fisher Scientific to Acquire Athena Diagnostics from Behrman Capital and Purchase 9 Percent of Nanogen

Company Expands Presence in Molecular Diagnostics

20-Mar-2006 - Fisher Scientific International Inc. announced two transactions that will significantly enhance its capabilities in molecular diagnostics. Fisher has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Athena Diagnostics, Inc., developer and provider of proprietary molecular diagnostic ...

Fisher Scientific and Invitrogen Establish Distribution Agreement

13-Jan-2006 - Fisher Scientific International Inc. and Invitrogen signed a European distribution agreement that became effective on Jan. 1, for specific customers within the research, life-science and academic market segments. These customers have received letters concerning the transition and also will be ...

Fisher Biosciences collaborates with Dyomics

11-Jan-2006 - Through a collaboration with Dyomics GmbH, an developer and manufacturer of fluorescent dyes and other markers for biomolecular research, Fisher Biosciences is now able to develop and manufacture an expanded range of products for protein and nucleic-acid detection under the Pierce ...

Dharmacon and 10 Research Institutes Establish Global Initiative to Advance Research Using Human-Genom-Wide siRNA Library

Founding Members Include Leading Biomedical Research Institutes in Six Countries

07-Oct-2005 - Dharmacon, Inc. announced the formation of the Genome-Wide RNAi Global Initiative, an alliance of leading international biomedical research centers. The initial goal of the Global Initiative is to accelerate the scientific and medical discoveries made possible by the recent availability of the ...