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Panasonic releases solution with gesture-based interfaces for digital entertainment and signage

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. announced today the release of a bundled solution for the digital entertainment and signage markets.

From PHC Europe B.V. 3 Aug 2011

Alnylam second quarter revenue decreases to $20.6 million

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, today reported its consolidated financial results for the second quarter 2011, and company highlights.

From Precision NanoSystems Inc. 2 Aug 2011

Thermo Fisher Scientific second quarter revenues increase 12% to record $2.90 billion

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended July 2, 2011.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 27 Jul 2011

Illumina begins to ship HumanOmni5-Quad DNA Analysis BeadChip

Illumina, Inc. today announced that it has begun shipping the HumanOmni5-Quad DNA Analysis BeadChip (Omni5), the new flagship array of the Omni family of microarrays.

From Illumina, Inc. 25 Jul 2011

Sartorius sales revenue increases 12.2% to 353.7M euros in the first half of 2011

Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and process equipment provider, successfully closed the first half of 2011, with double-digit growth rates in sales revenue and earnings.

From Sartorius 25 Jul 2011

OCD introduces VITROS 4600 Chemistry System for high-volume laboratories

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) today announced the launch of the VITROS® 4600 Chemistry System, a state-of-the-art analyzer that delivers high-quality, reliable test results for mid- to high-volume laboratories using the same core technologies that drive reliability and efficiency throughout OCD's portfolio of products.

From Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. 22 Jul 2011

Aerocrine net sales decrease 1% to SEK 41.8m for January - June, 2011

Aerocrine secured the company's largest single order to date, valued at SEK 5.5 million.

From PHC Europe B.V. 22 Jul 2011

Randox win Premier Healthcare Alliance contract for Quality Control

Randox Laboratories Ltd is proud to announce that in April 2011 we signed a multi-year agreement with the Premier Healthcare Alliance for the supply of Acusera Quality Control (QC) materials. The agreement will provide the 90,000 plus Premier members with access to our extensive range of quality control products and the benefits they offer clinical laboratories. When asked about the new agreement Laura Coyle Randox Business Manager for the USA revealed that ‘We look forward to strengthening our relationship with Premier and providing added value to their members’.

From Randox Laboratories Ltd. 21 Jul 2011

Oxford Nanopore inaugurates new informatics outstation in Cambridge, UK

Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Ltd announces the expansion of its Oxford headquarters and the opening of a new Oxford Nanopore informatics outstation in Cambridge, UK.

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies 21 Jul 2011

Malvern and Paraytec enter into development and technology licensing agreement

Malvern Panalytical (Malvern Panalytical, UK) and Paraytec Ltd (York, UK) have entered into a development and licensing agreement that will see Paraytec’s ActiPix® technology being added to Malvern Panalytical’s materials characterization portfolio. The agreement will give Malvern Panalytical exclusive rights to further develop, market and sell ActiPix® UV area imaging technology in specific fields of use related to the characterization of complex fluids for applications in biopharmaceuticals, foods and personal care industrial sectors.

From Malvern Panalytical 20 Jul 2011

Two instruments of Thermo Fisher Scientific win 2011 R&D 100 Award

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that two of its instruments are 2011 R&D 100 Award winners: the Thermo Scientific Evolution 200 series UV-Vis spectrophotometer and the Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-5000 capillary ion chromatography system.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 20 Jul 2011

Mayo Clinic licenses M. tuberculosis complex speciation test from QIAGEN

Mayo Clinic has licensed patent rights from QIAGEN to enable Mayo Medical Laboratories to offer an M. tuberculosis complex speciation test. The test expands Mayo Medical Laboratories' current offering for tuberculosis testing, which already includes M. tuberculosis complex culture, molecular identification and drug susceptibility testing.

From QIAGEN Manchester Limited 19 Jul 2011

Magellan sells TREK business to Thermo Fisher

Magellan Biosciences, a global manufacturer of products designed to make diagnostic testing easier, more cost-effective, and less labor intensive, announced that it has sold its microbiology business, TREK Diagnostic Systems, to Thermo Fisher Scientific.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 19 Jul 2011

Roche signs agreement to acquire mtm laboratories

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., a member of the Roche Group, announced today that Roche has signed an agreement under which it will acquire 100 percent of mtm laboratories AG (mtm), a privately-held company based in Heidelberg, Germany.

From Roche Sequencing and Life Science 19 Jul 2011

Thermo Fisher Scientific announces acquisition of TREK Diagnostic Systems

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has acquired TREK Diagnostic Systems, a global provider of microbiology solutions, including blood culture, microorganism identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) products, from Magellan Biosciences. Based near Cleveland, Ohio, the company had full year revenue in 2010 of $34 million and has 150 employees.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 18 Jul 2011

Cell Biosciences is now ProteinSimple

Cell Biosciences, Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to ProteinSimple to clearly reflect the Company's core mission in protein research.

From ProteinSimple 18 Jul 2011

Illumina announces availability of new TruSeq Custom Enrichment kits

Illumina, Inc. today announced availability of its new TruSeq Custom Enrichment kits which enable researchers to economically design and target genomic regions of interest ranging from 700 kilobases (Kb) to 15 megabases (Mb) of cumulative DNA.

From Illumina, Inc. 13 Jul 2011

Thermo Fisher Scientific streamlines microplate tracking

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced its new Thermo Scientific Nunc barcode configurator, an online tool that provides an easy, convenient way to design and order custom barcoded Nunc plates online. With the ability to specify the number of digits, code type, prefixes or suffixes and label location via a simple step-by-step user interface at www.thermoscientific.com/barcodeconfigurator, visitors to the site can build a barcoding label scheme to best suit their application needs.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 12 Jul 2011

Illumina, Sequenom sign three-year supply agreement

Sequenom, Inc., a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced it has signed a three-year supply agreement with Illumina, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of life sciences tools for the large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function.

From Illumina, Inc. 11 Jul 2011