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Bruker to acquire Michrom Bioresources

Bruker today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Michrom Bioresources, Inc., a 20 year old, privately owned company based in Auburn, California. Michrom provides liquid chromatography instrumentation, accessories, and consumables for applications in the life science, chemical and applied markets.

24 Feb 2011

Quanterix expands its Single Molecule Array technology to measure proteins precisely

Quanterix Corporation, a single molecule diagnostics company providing technology with unprecedented sensitivity for the life science and in vitro diagnostics markets, today announced the online publication of a study that builds upon the company's Single Molecule Array technology by combining digital and analog detection in one straightforward measurement.

24 Feb 2011

Covaris, Caliper enter co-marketing agreement to leverage next generation sequencing

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. and Covaris Inc., Woburn, Mass., today announced a co-marketing agreement which will leverage Covaris' acoustic DNA shearing platforms and Caliper's automation and microfluidics technologies to develop automated workflows for next generation sequencing experiments.

24 Feb 2011

Biomatrica announces strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel

Biomatrica, Inc., a leader in room temperature biostability technology, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel. IQT is the independent, strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the mission of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

24 Feb 2011

Covance Genomics Lab, Ingenuity enter research collaboration for NGS data analysis

Ingenuity Systems, a leading provider of information and analytics solutions for life science researchers, today announced a research collaboration with Covance Genomics Laboratory for next-generation sequencing data analysis.

24 Feb 2011

New report identifies risks linked with privacy and security breaches in health care

A new report, "Privacy and Security in Health Care: A Fresh Look," released today by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, identifies the risks associated with privacy and security breaches in health care.

22 Feb 2011

Merck Canada announces $6.8 million investment in AmorChem for biopharmaceutical research

Merck Canada announced today a $6.8 million investment in AmorChem, a Quebec life sciences venture capital fund. This is the latest investment made by Merck following a commitment made in 2010 to invest an incremental $100 million over five years in biopharmaceutical research and development in Quebec.

19 Feb 2011

ICR, AB SCIEX collaborate to standardize mass spectrometry-based tissue imaging

A key research area for The Institute of Cancer Research is investigating the spread of cancer in the human body in an effort to identify new and effective treatment strategies. To help advance this research, the ICR is collaborating with scientists at AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, to standardize advanced methods of mass spectrometry-based tissue imaging.

17 Feb 2011

Activaero closes financing round for € 5.0 million

Activaero GmbH, a technology leader in controlled breathing inhalation devices, today announced that it has closed a further financing round of € 5.0 million.

16 Feb 2011

Chimerix announces completion of $45 million Series F financing

Chimerix, Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing orally-available broad spectrum antiviral therapeutics, today announced the completion of a $45 million Series F financing. New Leaf Venture Partners led the round, with participation by new investors Pappas Ventures and Morningside Group, as well as existing investors Canaan Partners, Sanderling Ventures, Alta Partners, Asset Management Company and Frazier Healthcare Ventures.

14 Feb 2011

Numira acquires Ricerca' Efficacy Pharmacology operating unit

Numira Biosciences, a specialty contract research organization and leader in high resolution, 3D imaging services and visualization software for the life science market, announced today that it has acquired the Efficacy Pharmacology operating unit of Ricerca Biosciences, LLC., located in Bothell, WA.

14 Feb 2011

Harvard Bioscience's novel bioreactor technology featured on National Geographic Channel

Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of specialized products used to advance life science research and regenerative medicine, is pleased to announce that its novel bioreactor technology was featured on the National Geographic Channel's Explorer television program on February 7, 2011.

From Harvard Bioscience 11 Feb 2011

Gerresheimer 2010 group revenues increase 5.6% to EUR 1024.8m

Gerresheimer AG, one of the leading worldwide suppliers to the pharma and healthcare industry, finished the financial year 2010 with record results. "The financial year 2010 was very successful for us. Our know-how and products are very much in demand from international pharma customers. Our shareholders should participate in this success.

10 Feb 2011

BBSRC, EMBL-EBI applaud funding allocation for European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological Information

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) welcome news that funding has been earmarked from the UK's Large Facilities Capital Fund for ELIXIR - the European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological Information - as announced today (09 February 2011).

9 Feb 2011

Minnetronix introduces new Cognita remote medical device monitoring and intelligence system

Minnetronix, a provider of award-winning product design, development and manufacturing services to the medical device and life science marketplaces, is pleased to announce the introduction of its latest product offering: the Minnetronix® Cognita™ System. The system will be debuted at the Medical Design & Manufacturing West Expo on February 8-10, in Anaheim, California.

9 Feb 2011

AB SCIEX, ARUP enter collaboration to develop new clinical research test methods for hormone analysis

AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced a collaboration with ARUP Laboratories, a major clinical reference laboratory in the United States, to develop new test methods that clinical research laboratories around the world can adopt to improve hormone analysis.

7 Feb 2011

Radical regulatory reform for life science industries needs to be a priority: Researchers

This declining trend is blamed on a failure of innovative drive in the industry, failure of the UK to support basic research, failure of venture capital to invest in early stage research, or failure of the Health Service to provide smart procurement.

5 Feb 2011

iBridge Network announces tangible proof points for innovation, entrepreneurship

The recent launch of the 'Start-Up America Partnership', a coordinated public/private effort to celebrate, inspire and accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship and support the White House's Start-Up America initiative, validates the importance of stimulating economic growth, creating quality jobs, and building the new industries of the 21st Century.

5 Feb 2011

Isotechnika closes licensing deal with ILJIN Life Science to advance development of voclosporin

Isotechnika Pharma Inc. is pleased to announce that it has finalized the Development, Distribution and License Agreement with ILJIN Life Science Co., Ltd., previously announced on November 16, 2010. Isotechnika will now receive the license fee of US$4.5 million plus proceeds of US$2.375 million from ILJIN's purchase of its first tranche of Common Shares from treasury.

3 Feb 2011

DNAnexus announces new cloud-based tools for analyzing large-scale genomic variation datasets

DNAnexus, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for analyzing, visualizing, and managing next-generation sequencing data, today announced the availability of a comprehensive set of new informatics tools that enable life science researchers to efficiently analyze and manage large-scale genomic variation datasets in a cloud-based workflow.

3 Feb 2011

Life science News and Research

Bruker to acquire Michrom Bioresources

Quanterix expands its Single Molecule Array technology to measure proteins precisely

Covaris, Caliper enter co-marketing agreement to leverage next generation sequencing

Biomatrica announces strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel

Covance Genomics Lab, Ingenuity enter research collaboration for NGS data analysis

New report identifies risks linked with privacy and security breaches in health care

Merck Canada announces $6.8 million investment in AmorChem for biopharmaceutical research

ICR, AB SCIEX collaborate to standardize mass spectrometry-based tissue imaging

Activaero closes financing round for € 5.0 million

Chimerix announces completion of $45 million Series F financing

Numira acquires Ricerca' Efficacy Pharmacology operating unit

Harvard Bioscience's novel bioreactor technology featured on National Geographic Channel

Gerresheimer 2010 group revenues increase 5.6% to EUR 1024.8m

BBSRC, EMBL-EBI applaud funding allocation for European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological Information

Minnetronix introduces new Cognita remote medical device monitoring and intelligence system

AB SCIEX, ARUP enter collaboration to develop new clinical research test methods for hormone analysis

Radical regulatory reform for life science industries needs to be a priority: Researchers

iBridge Network announces tangible proof points for innovation, entrepreneurship

Isotechnika closes licensing deal with ILJIN Life Science to advance development of voclosporin

DNAnexus announces new cloud-based tools for analyzing large-scale genomic variation datasets

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

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