Company Announcements

ATCC announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Biological Industries for Israel.

Affomix is providing the City of Hope with recombinant antibodies that are designed to be readily tagged with oligonucleotide “zipcodes,” making them compatible with next-generation sequencers. City of Hope will generate proteomic profile characteristics of a number of cancers.

In January, VisEn Medical acquired Bayer Schering Pharma AG’s fluorescence imaging–agent intellectual property portfolio and related technology platforms.

In February, Thermo Fisher Scientific exclusively licensed ActivX’s Activity-Based Protein Profiling Technology for sample enrichment. The products will be sold under the Thermo Scientific brand.

Product Introductions

454 Life Sciences introduced the Rapid Library Preparation Kit and 12 Rapid Library Multiplex Identifier Adaptors for sample pooling.

Biometra released DNAgard for the transport and storage of tissues and cells in a liquid format for at least 60 days at ambient room temperature.

Cellectis BioResearch launched the cGPS Custom HEK293 kit, its first research kit that can be used on cell lines derived from human material.

GenVault introduced GenTegra RNA, an inert chemical matrix that inactivates trace RNase in the liquid phase, providing an added level of RNA stability during sample handling, with or without ice.

ForteBio launched the Dip and Read Residual Protein A Detection Kit.

Bar Harbor BioTechnology released the XenoQ Assays for the quantitation of human tumor response in xenograft experiments.

Beckman Coulter began selling IBA GmbH’s Streptamer technology for the isolation and characterization of functional antigen-specific T cells by fluorescence-activated or magnet-assisted cell sorting.

Caprotec bioanalytics introduced three caproKits for proteins belonging to the groups of metallo-proteases, histon-deacetylases and GDP/GTP binding proteins.

Helicos BioSciences released new single-molecule sequencing kits and run configurations for tailoring parameters, including a 25-channel kit.

Norgen Biotek introduced 10 new kits in a spin column format for the fast and simple isolation of nucleic acids from blood, plasma and serum.

Silicon Kinetic released three new surface chemistries: NTA-Ni, Protein A and Protein G.

AMSBIO introduced two new histone deacetylase fluorescence-based cell-based assay kits.