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• Thermo Fisher acquires Sterilin Ltd.
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has acquired Sterilin Ltd., a leading provider of consumable products for microbiology, life science, and clinical laboratories. The acquisition incl...
• Bruker Announces Agreement to Acquire CETR
  Bruker Corporation announced the signing of a purchase agreement to acquire Center for Tribology, Inc. (CETR) for an undisclosed amount. CETR, a privately held corporation located in Silicon Valley...
• VWR International strengthens its position in Italy by aquiring International P.B.I. S.p.A.
  VWR International, LLC, a global leader in distributing laboratory supplies and services, announced today that it has acquired INTERNATIONAL P.B.I. S.p.A., based in Milan, Italy. Established in 195...
• Perten Instruments acquires TexVol Instruments
  Perten Instruments AB of Stockholm, Sweden announced that it has acquired the Sweden based instrument manufacturer TexVol Instruments.Under the terms of the acquisition the BVM range of volume meas...
• New State-of-the-Art Sequencer at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin
  Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed the start button for a new state-of-the-art DNA sequencer during her visit on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB)...
• Cellular metabolism self-adapts to protect against free radicals
  Oxygen-consuming organisms obtain energy through cellular respiration, which is the transformation of carbohydrates and oxygen into carbon dioxide and water. This process also produces toxic oxygen...
• PerkinElmer to Acquire Caliper Life Sciences
  PerkinElmer, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., a Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based leader in imaging and detection solutions for life sci...
• More precaution in the management of nanomaterials
  Nanomaterials offer numerous new opportunities for innovation but they can also pose new risks. Nanomaterials are now used in many different economic sectors and increasingly also in consumer produ...
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of Phadia
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. reported that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Phadia, a global leader in blood tests for the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergies an...
• How the N2O Greenhouse Gas Is Decomposed
  Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a harmful climate gas. Its effect as a greenhouse gas is 300 times stronger than that of carbon dioxide. Nitrous oxide destroys the ozone layer. In industrial agriculture, it...
• Fraunhofer opens Center for Systems Biotechnology in Chile
  On September 1, 2011 the Chilean Minister of the Economy, Mr Pablo Longueira and Professor Bullinger officially opened Fraunhofer's first research center in South America. The new 'Fraunhofer Cente...
• INFICON Announces Closing of Acquisition of Adixen Scandinavia AB From Pfeiffer Vacuum
  INFICON, a leading, worldwide manufacturer of instrumentation and process control software for advanced industrial vacuum processes, has closed the acquisition of Adixen Scandinavia AB from Pfeiffe...