Company Announcements

In May, New England Biolabs opened a subsidiary in France, just south of Paris.

Life Technologies exclusively licensed in June Transcription Activator-Like (TAL) Effector Technology for “plant research tool uses.” The technology enables synthetic biologists to program and control the genetic circuitry in engineered pathways and organisms.

In a June SEC filing, Stemgent announced it raised $10.6 million as part of a $14.1 million offering.

In June, ATCC and Stemgent announced a collaborative research agreement to advance development of novel stem cell reagents and pluripotent cells.

Advanced Cell Technology and Roslin Cells will establish a bank of GMP-grade human embryonic stem cell lines.

SwitchGear Genomics announced a distribution agreement with Cosmo Bio for Japan.

In July, the Genomics division of testing firm LGC acquired KBioscience, which provides products and services for developing and optimizing genotyping assays.

Gyros announced that GE Healthcare will solely distribute its products in Japan.

Product Introductions

In June, Bio-Rad Laboratories introduced magnetic bead–based multiplex immunoassays for TGF-ß, rat cytokines, rat diabetes and mouse HT17 cytokines.

Life Technologies launched the CytoTune-iPS Reprogramming Kit for the development of induced pluripotent stem cells from human somatic cells. The technology employs a RNA virus for transgene-free induction, which was developed by DNAVEC.

Promega released the bioluminescent HDAC-Glo and SIRT-Glo Assays and Screening Systems for the measurement of deacetylating activities.

Shrink Nanotechnologies launched the StemDisc 450 Insert for the development and study of spheroid cells and tissues.

EMD Millipore introduced the QCM Gelatin Invadopodia Assays for the standardization and enhancement of cell invasion studies . It enables the visualization of degradation produced by normal and malignant cell types.

Sigma Life Science launched a collection of breast cancer–specific knockout and knockin cell lines for drug discovery and research.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Thermo Scientific Sera-Mag SpeedBeads Magnetic Protein A/G Particles for manual and automated magnetic isolation of IgA and IgG proteins using affinity binding.

NanoString released the nCounter Leukemia Fusion Gene Panel, which covers 25 specific isoforms from seven fusion gene families associated with three types of leukemia.