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PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC, a diagnostic genetic testing company based in Spokane, Washington.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), today announced they have established a new chip-scale micro- and nanophotonic- systems testing facility on the UCSD campus.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced in March that it is providing the Scottish Metabolomics Facility (ScotMet) with cutting-edge technology to advance the field of metabolomics. ScotMet is funded by the Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance (SULSA) and is a state-of-the-art facility run jointly by the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.
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Malvern Instruments Limited (Malvern, UK) has acquired certain assets of Swedish rheology company Reologica Instruments AB (Lund, Sweden), which went into administration on 23rd March 2010. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
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A new company integrating advanced laboratory services and clinical trials services announced it will operate under the name med fusion and will be headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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Accelrys, Inc. and Symyx Technologies, Inc. today announced that they have signed a merger agreement that will establish a new leader in scientific informatics software.
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Abbott announced yesterday that it had completed its $123 million acquisition of STARLIMS Technologies Ltd., a leader in laboratory information management systems.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has extended the contract for the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute to co-manage Oak Ridge National Laboratory for another five years.
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Bruker Corp. and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced in February that Bruker and Agilent have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement. Pursuant to this agreement, Bruker will acquire certain product lines of Varian Inc., which Agilent has committed to divest in connection with obtaining regulatory approval for Agilent's previously announced acquisition of Varian.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) announced on March 1, 2010 that they have entered into a collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing, with the goal of solving a wide range of persistent problems facing global food supply chains.
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Merck KGaA announced on Sunday that it will purchase Millipore, a supplier of life science tools and equipment to the biotech industries, for $7.6 billion (5.3 billion euros).
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Sanofi-aventis has signed a research partnership with Aviesan (National Alliance for Life Sciences and Healthcare), comprised of the CEA, CNRS, INRA, INRIA, Inserm, Institut Pasteur, IRD, conference of university presidents and conference of regional and university hospital CEOs.
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