Eurofins signs agreement to acquire Lancaster Laboratories, Inc.

28-Feb-2011 - Eurofins Scientific SE has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lancaster Laboratories, Inc. from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. for approximately US$200m, subject to post-closing adjustments. With approximately 1,100 employees in the USA and Ireland, Lancaster is a leading provider of ...

Intertek Acquires Divisions of Ciba Expert Services from BASF

Expands Services Globally

09-Apr-2010 - Intertek announced the acquisition of Ciba Expert Services' Environmental, Safety, & Testing and Regulatory businesses, including Cantox Health Sciences and Ashuren Health Sciences. The acquisition substantially strengthens Intertek's scope and depth for regulatory consulting to meet customers' ...

Epistem’s Biomarker Focus in the US

21-Oct-2009 - Epistem Plc will open a US office based in Boston, MA to increase its presence in the all important North American Market. The US office (‘Epistem Inc’) will support the commercialisation of the recently launched proprietary GenetRxTM biomarker platform in oncology. Epistem’s biomarker ...

VTT and KCL sign a letter of intent to integrate the research and laboratory operations of KCL to VTT

06-Feb-2009 - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and KCL (Oy Keskuslaboratorio – Centrallaboratorium Ab) have signed a letter of intent to combine their research and laboratory operations. The letter of intent includes a review of the possibilities of integrating the research and laboratory functions of ...

CLC bio tests Next Generation Sequencing solution on African tuberculosis data

18-Feb-2008 - CLC bio has joined forces with the first center for High Throughput DNA Sequencing in Africa, Inqaba Biotechnical Industries (Pty) Ltd., in an effort to help fight tuberculosis on the African continent. Together CLC bio and inqaba biotec will assemble and analyze data from multiple tuberculosis ...

Biotech has Positive Year Despite Weak Fourth Quarter Performance

Burrill looks back at 2007

04-Jan-2008 - "The biotech industry finished the year in good shape with the Burrill Biotech Select Index, a price-weighted index tracking 20 of biotech's "blue chip" companies, gaining 9% in 2007 ahead of the Dow, which finished up 6.4% and on par with the Nasdaq, which closed up 9.8%," said G. Steven ...

History of Human Migration to be Mapped

Applied Biosystems Joins the Genographic Project to Support Landmark Population Genetics Study Mapping the History of Human Migration

13-Jul-2006 - Applied Biosystems and the Genographic Project announced that Applied Biosystems has joined the Genographic Project as a supporting sponsor. Applied Biosystems has signed a multi-year agreement with the project to provide laboratory research equipment and services to each of the ten participating ...

Dendreon Names Ernest Bognar General Manager of Hanover, NJ Manufacturing Facility

09-Mar-2006 - Dendreon Corporation announced that it named Ernest A. Bognar general manager of the Company's new manufacturing facility in Hanover, New Jersey. Dendreon is currently developing this facility to meet the anticipated clinical and commercial manufacturing needs for PROVENGE® (sipuleucel-T) and its ...

CyGenics takes 51% equity in an Australian cord blood banking business

08-Nov-2005 - CyGenics Ltd announced that it has taken a 51% controlling equity interest in BioCell Pty Ltd, an Australian cord blood stem cell banking business. BioCell commenced operations in August 2004 and is now the second largest cord blood banking business in Australia. The company has grown rapidly ...

Bioindustry Park Canavese Launches Discovery

The Project is Aimed at Creating New Companies in Biotechnologies and Life Science

06-Jul-2004 - It's take-off for Discovery, the project that Bioindustry Park Canavese, with the financial backing of the Piedmont Regional Authority, is launching to help Italian researchers set up companies in the biotechnologies and life sciences sector, based on high-tech projects. Special terms and ...