Merck Millipore Strengthens Bioscience Business by acquiring Amnis Corporation

01-Sep-2011 - Merck Millipore announced it has agreed to acquire Seattle-based Amnis Corporation. Amnis designs, manufactures and markets high speed cell imaging instrumentation. The technology is used in flow cytometry applications in academic, biotech and pharmaceutical cell analysis and research. Amnis has ...

Porvair Filtration Report Strong Gain in 2011

30-Aug-2011 - Porvair Filtration Group, specialists in media and equipment for filtration and separation applications, has announced a strong increase in sales for the first half of fiscal year 2011. This growth is reflected in the half yearly results reported by parent company - Porvair plc for its ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of Phadia

29-Aug-2011 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. reported that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Phadia. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, Phadia has approximately 1,500 employees globally and had 2010 revenue of €367 million (or approximately $525 million). Phadia will become part of Thermo Fisher’s ...

Carl Zeiss Grants Sublicense for LED Fluorescence Excitation to Prior Scientific Ltd.

18-Aug-2011 - Effective retroactively to 1 June 2011, the Microscopy business group of Carl Zeiss has granted a sublicense for patents relating to LED fluorescence excitation in microscopy to Prior Scientific Ltd., Cambridge, UK. These patents protect the use of light emitting diodes for the excitation of ...

Sequenom Announces European Licensing Agreement With LifeCodexx

16-Aug-2011 - Sequenom, Inc. announced it has partnered with LifeCodexx AG for the commercialization of prenatal laboratory testing services in Europe. The companies have agreed to collaborate in the development and launch of a trisomy 21 laboratory developed test and other aneuploidies testing in Germany, ...

Analytik Jena After Nine Months with Growth in Operating Business

15-Aug-2011 - With sales growth of almost 7.0 % and an increase of nearly 6.0 % in operating earnings, Analytik Jena is now entering the final straight of the 2010/2011 financial year. After nine months the Group generated sales of EUR 63.6 m and operating income of EUR 3.4 m. This was announced by the ...

Axel Semrau and ThalesNano Collaborate on Distributing Products

11-Aug-2011 - Axel Semrau and ThalesNano announced the signing of a collaboration agreement for product distribution in the territory of Germany. “We are very proud and excited about partnering with Axel Semrau. is a leading distributor for analytical instruments in Germany - said Dr. Ferenc Darvas, president ...

New technology further strengthens Elster's gas measurement portfolio

Elster Adds Gas Chromatography Assets From SLS

11-Aug-2011 - Elster announced today that the company has acquired the gas chromatography assets, including sophisticated proprietary intellectual property, from SLS Micro Technology (SLS), a private company based in Hamburg, Germany. The SLS technology is especially effective at assessing downstream gas ...

China Medical Technologies and Leica Microsystems Announce Collaboration

10-Aug-2011 - China Medical Technologies, Inc. (CMED) and Leica Biosystems, a division of Leica Microsystems, announced that they have established a sales, research and development collaboration to co-develop and market automated FISH kits to be used on the Leica BOND system. CMED will sell the Automated FISH ...

analytica Anacon India 2011: Growth on Indian market for laboratory and analysis equipment

10-Aug-2011 - During the past few years, India has seen a continuous increase in demand for laboratory and analysis equipment. The food industry and pharmaceuticals industry in particular are noticing growing interest in high-quality equipment. This development will also be reflected at this year’s analytica ...