Instrumentation News

Monday, February 13, 2012

Spectra Systems sends tech on Mars mission
NASA tapped Providence, R.I.-based Spectra Systems Corp. to use its materials with the agency’s high performance cameras on a rover that has been sent to our nearest planetary neighbor.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Pressure BioSciences closes $800,000 offering
Pressure BioSciences Inc., the South Easton-based developer of life sciences sample preparation systems, completed an $800,000 private placement of 971,867 restricted common stock shares and 485,937 warrants to buy restricted common stock.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Berkshire Community College starts supercomputer cluster
Following an April announcement that it would be home to a new supercomputing cluster in a collaboration with Nuclea Biotechnologies Inc., Berkshire Community College on Tuesday formally launched the cluster in a microbiology lab on campus, according to a local news report.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Zygo scores $9M tool optics deal
Zygo Corp. has formed a contract deal with the University of Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and the chip-making association SEMATECH that will bring more than $9 million to the Middlefield, Conn., company.

Friday, October 21, 2011

PerkinElmer prices $500M notes offering
Following a September buyout of Hopkinton's Caliper Life Sciences Inc., PerkinElmer Inc. has announced it priced a senior notes offering at $500 million today, with plans to apply the proceeds to the acquisition costs.

Friday, October 14, 2011

DOD awards grant to Pressure BioSciences
On the heels of receiving $112,000 in loans from three of its investors, Pressure BioSciences Inc. of South Easton was awarded a $649,498 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. The funds will aid development of a system for safe and accurate processing of dangerous pathogens.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Bruker closes Center for Tribology buyout
Medical technology developer Bruker Corp. has scooped up California tribology and mechanical testing firm Center for Tribology Inc., paying out $13 million cash, with the potential for additional earn-out payments up to $4 million.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sage Science takes yet another $2M round
Beverly laboratory and research equipment and supplies company Sage Science Inc. has closed on a new $2 million equity financing round, federal documents show.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

NortekUSA moves HQ from Maryland to Boston
Nortek AS, a Swedish firm that makes underwater acoustic instruments, moved its U.S. headquarters from Maryland to Boston, just a little more than a week after NortekUSA announced it had developed technology for Bedford's iRobot Corp.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Quanterix appoints ex-Millipore chief Madaus as CEO
Former Millipore Corp. CEO Martin Madaus has been named permanent CEO at venture-backed Quanterix Corp., which is developing technology for the in vitro diagnostics and life science research markets.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Bruker brings Knight back into CFO seat
Billerica research equipment maker Bruker Corp. reports that William J. Knight will again assume the role of CFO for the company, while continuing to serve as its interim COO.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Thermo Fisher to cut 122 NH jobs
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is cutting 122 jobs in New Hampshire – including 109 in Newington and 13 in Portsmouth – in a move to "increase efficiencies" for the Waltham-based life sciences equipment supplier, a spokesperson said.
PerkinElmer to buy Caliper for $600M
Hopkinton’s Caliper Life Sciences Inc. will be acquired by Waltham life sciences instrumentation giant PerkinElmer Inc. for approximately $600 million in cash, according to a release.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

UNH to turn space instrument into dirty bomb finder
The University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center has won a $303,000 federal contract to help develop a portable instrument that can find contraband radioactive material from a safe distance away.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Zygo scores $6M in orders from China
Zygo Corp. has landed $6 million in metrology systems orders from two Chinese optical research and manufacturing organizations.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

EMD Millipore buys Seattle's Amnis Corp.
Billerica life sciences materials and supplies company EMD Millipore has acquired cell imaging instrumentation maker Amnis Corp. of Seattle for an undisclosed amount.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Thermo Fisher completes acquisition of Phadia
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. said today that it recently completed its acquisition of the Sweden-based diagnostics company Phadia.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

PerkinElmer inks new distribution deal with Roche
PerkinElmer Inc. (NYSE: PKI) has entered into a new supply agreement with Switzerland’s Roche for distribution of the NimbleGen CGX microarray workflow the two developed together.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Thermo Fisher eyes $3.5 billion notes offering
Life sciences equipment supplier Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is planning to offer about $3.5 billion in senior notes to cover some costs associated with of its May acquisition of Swedish diagnostics firm Phadia AB.
MIT docs put 3-D imaging in a can
While 3-D imaging devices are usually very large and very expensive, MIT researchers have made an inexpensive, handheld device roughly the size of a soda can that can create 3-D surface images so sharp they can show the raised ink lines on a $20 bill.