Company Announcements

Biolog named new distributors in March: IUL Instruments for Germany and Austria, Awel International for France, A&LCO Industries for Italy and IUL for Spain.

In April, CM Technologies appointed Dync as its new distributor for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg; D.I. Biotech as its distributor for South Korea; and Mars Bioanalytical as its Indian distributor.

According to a May SEC filing, Seahorse Bioscience raised $9.4 million as part of a $17.8 million securities offering.

NanoSort received a two-year, $1 million Phase III Small Business Innovation Research award from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the development of small, simple and affordable flow cytometers and cell sorters utilizing innovative optics and closed microfluidic chips. The first device will be released in 2013.

In June, Fluxion Biosciences announced a partnership with Rubicon Genomics in a reagent supply and collaboration program. They will integrate enrichment methods for rare cells for circulating–tumor cell applications using their respective IsoFlux System and NovaPlex kits.

In June, DVS Sciences announced a partnership with Cytobank for cloud-based informatics. The new software for DVS’s CyTOF system will be available in November.

Product Introductions

Seahorse Biocience released the XF Glycolysis Stress Test Kit in April for its XF Extracellular Flux Analyzer.

In April, GE Healthcare launched the Cytell Image Cytometer for rapid cell characterization. Data can be acquired from up to eight samples at a time.

Solentim introduced the new Cell Metric CLD benchtop imaging and analysis system with a microplate stacker for automated cell-line development.

In May, Cellectricon launched the Cellaxess Elektra Discovery Platform for the automated electric field manipulation of adherent cells, which enables in situ manipulation and monitoring of cell cultures directly in 96- and 384-well microplates at any cellular developmental stage.

Fluxion Biosciences launched a Discovery Services business in May.

Sony announced that it will begin taking orders this fall for the compact, affordable Cell Sort SH800 flow cytometer. The system will feature automated optical alignment and sorting set-up, as well as a plastic cell-sorting chip in the flow cell that enables the user to select the appropriate chip for the type and size of cell being measured. It will feature four lasers and six-color fluorescence detection.

In June, Roche launched the E-Plate Inserts 16 and 96, which permits continual impedance-based monitoring of indirect cell-cell interactions/communication using its xCELLigence instruments.

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences released a 561 nm laser option for a new 561 laser–ready Gallios flow cytometer.