CardioTech International Inc. on Thursday said it will sell its Gish Biomedical Unit after the company posted a narrower third quarter loss.

CardioTech's CEO, Michael Adams, called the biomedical unit a "great bus

Cytyc Corporation, a provider of surgical and diagnostic products targeting women's health and cancer diagnostics, announced that it will acquire Adeza Biomedical Corporation in a deal worth $452 million.

The equi

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Unidym, Inc., a developer of carbon nanotube electronics, has established a 7,000 sq. ft. office and lab facility in Menlo Park, California in the heart of

Companies, universities, governments, and economic development groups are all keenly focused on nanotechnology's potential to create new products and services - and the jobs that come with them, according to a new report.

The U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) has helped open a forensic lab in Tbilisi, the capital of the Russian Republic of Georgia.

Tbilisi's National Forensic Bureau

Kansas Senator Pat Roberts appeared before that state's legislature to back a plan that would allow construction of a new 500,000 square foot research facility to act as a replacement for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility'

President Bush today said the compensation of chief executives should be tied to their performance.

During the speech on Wall Street, Bush said that while the government shouldn't decide how America's corporate ex

A mile-long biomedical district is being proposed by the mayor of Phoenix that would allow research labs, clinics and hospitals to expand or locate to the city's downtown.

Mayor Phil Gordon put forth the plan, w

Orem, Utah-based Reflect Scientific, Inc. said today it has completed the merger agreement with All Temp Engineering, of San Jose, California.

All Temp Engineering will be integrated into Cryometrix Inc. and both

Thermo Fisher Scientific announced this week it will shift 37 jobs from its Dubuque, Iowa facility and will focus that operation strictly on manufacturing.

The Dubuque location employs roughly 500 people.

A new crime lab under construction in Tucson, Ariz. will be funded by $17.7 million seized in a crime committed four years ago, according to Attorney General Terry Goddard.

The announcement was made Wednesda

Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed spending $95 million to support research into clean energy, biomedicine and computer science.

State officials say the funding plan, released Wednesday, would pl