Hettich successfully completes acquisition of Kirsch Medical

05-Jan-2024 - In 2023, Hettich Group experienced its most lucrative year yet in its 120-year history. For the first time, the Tuttlingen-based company, specializing in centrifuges and incubators for clinical-medical applications across three European locations, significantly surpassed the 100 million euro ...

Cellbox Solutions Announces New Headquarters

The new headquarters will house both the growing Research and Development department as well as the Quality Control department

14-Apr-2021 - Cellbox Solutions, focusing on innovative logistic solutions for the global BioMedTech industry, announced the opening of its new headquarters in Norderstedt, which is located nearby Hamburg, Germany. In line with the business strategy to expand the product and logistics service offerings to ...

Wolfgang Kintzel to Become Cellbox Solutions’ CEO

26-Feb-2020 - Cellbox Solutions announces the expansion of its Board of Directors and the appointment of a new CEO - Wolfgang Kintzel will start as Chief Executive Officer effective March 1, 2020. The founder Prof. Kathrin Adlkofer will support the board in the function as COO. Wolfgang Kintzel has an ...

LAUDA acquires laboratory specialist

18-Dec-2018 - LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG has announced the acquisition of GFL Gesellschaft für Labortechnik mbH. This is the third takeover in total for the company from Lauda-Königshofen. While the previous acquisitions primarily served to open up new business areas in the industrial environment, LAUDA ...

Live cell imaging revolutionises disease diagnostics and drug discovery

Stakeholder collaboration will be crucial to convert these developments into clinically meaningful tests

21-Mar-2014 - Tremendous advances in electronics, optics, fluorescent tools, and molecular biology have made live cell imaging technologies more accessible to life scientists looking to understand biological dynamics and visualize cellular events in organisms. The foray of omics technologies and ...

Boom in smart pills will reach a new peak by 2018-2020

10-Mar-2014 - The increasing need for convenient diagnostic and accurate therapeutic tools is driving innovation in smart pills. While certain smart pill applications, such as imaging and sensing, have been successfully commercialized, others like drug delivery and surgery are yet to be proven clinically. ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Opens New Manufacturing Facility in China

Expands Global Footprint, Local Production Capabilities to Address Increased Demand from Life Sciences Customers in China and Asia-Pacific Region

19-Nov-2012 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced the official opening of its new facility in Suzhou, China, for the manufacturing of life sciences consumables and equipment. The facility expands the company’s global manufacturing footprint and establishes local production capabilities to meet increased ...

Dunn Labortechnik celebrates its 30th anniversary

01-Feb-2012 - In 1982 the company Dunn Labortechnik was founded in Asbach (Germany) by Hannelore and Peter Dunn. Since then, the company has supplied research and routine laboratories with equipment, disposables as well as immunoreagents, plasma and sera and has evolved from a nationally to an internationally ...

UCLA researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells

New method may help improve diagnosis, prognosis and treatment monitoring

23-Nov-2009 - Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor. These cells, known as circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, can provide critical information for ...

Corning Incorporated Acquires Axygen BioScience, Inc.

Acquisition to expand Corning's portfolio of life sciences products and global customer access

18-Sep-2009 - Corning Incorporated announced that it has acquired all the shares of Axygen BioScience, Inc. and its subsidiaries from American Capital Ltd. for approximately $400 million in cash. Headquartered in Union City, Calif., Axygen is a manufacturer and distributor of life sciences plastic consumable ...