Eurofins agrees to acquire SYNLAB’s clinical diagnostics operations in Spain

30-Oct-2024 - Eurofins Scientific has reached an agreement with SYNLAB to acquire its clinical diagnostics operations in Spain. The transaction is subject to customary conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in 2025. SYNLAB’s clinical diagnostics operations in Spain provide ...

Verici DX reaches a global licensing and commercialisation agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific

Agreement grants rights to further develop an assay for pre-transplant prognostic testing

20-Nov-2023 - Verici Dx plc, a developer of advanced clinical diagnostics for organ transplant, announced that it has signed an exclusive global licensing agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to further develop an assay for pre-transplant prognostic testing for risk of early kidney rejection. The exclusive ...

FDA Provides Emergency Use Authorization to PerkinElmer for COVID-19 Testing

25-Mar-2020 - PerkinElmer, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Company’s New Coronavirus RT-PCR test. Clinical laboratories certified under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) can immediately begin using this kit ...

Eurofins expands in clinical diagnostics

06-Feb-2018 - Eurofins Scientific announces the acquisition of Labo Van Poucke (“LVP”), a leading laboratory performing human medical testing covering all branches of clinical biology. LVP was founded in 1969 and has been a 100% family-owned business ever since. LVP performs almost all medical analyses ...

Eurofins acquires clinical diagnostics company in Italy

26-Jun-2017 - Eurofins Scientific announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire Genoma Group Srl in Italy. The transaction is expected to close in the next few weeks, subject to customary closing conditions. With 20 years of clinical testing innovation, Genoma offers a wide range of specialty diagnostic ...

World's first total-body PET scanner takes a big step forward

19-Jan-2017 - The UC Davis-based EXPLORER consortium, which aims to build a revolutionary total-body PET (positron emission tomography) scanner, has announced the selection of two industry partners to help build the prototype device. They are United Imaging Healthcare America, a North American subsidiary of ...

Small droplets feel the vibe

10-Oct-2016 - A team of researchers at the University of Bristol have used ultrasonic forces to accurately pattern thousands of microscopic water-based droplets. Each droplet can be designed to perform a biochemical experiment, which could pave the way for highly efficient lab-on-a-chip devices with future ...

A molecule in an optical whispering gallery

With the help of a microsphere and a nanowire, single unlabelled biomolecules can be detected through light

24-Sep-2014 - Being able to track individual biomolecules and observe them at work is every biochemist’s dream. This would enable the scientists to research in detail and better understand the workings of the nanomachines of life, such as ribosomes and DNA polymerases. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute ...

Technological innovation widens global application of mass spectrometry

Double-digit growth in Asia-Pacific and emerging markets to offset stagnation in US and Europe

24-Oct-2013 - The global mass spectrometry (MS) market is growing much faster than the high-end analytical instrumentation market. This is a sign that demand is high in this technologically-dynamic market with broad applications and diversified end-user bases despite limited capital budgets in academia and the ...

analytica: Diverse range of information in related-events program

05-Apr-2012 - Some 1,000 exhibitors from the laboratory-technology, analysis and biotechnology sectors will present their latest products at analytica in Munich from April 17 – 20. Besides the exhibition and the scientific analytica Conference, a practice-oriented program of related events awaits visitors. ...