Life Science Consumables
Company Announcements
INTAVIS AG acquired the peptide synthesis unit of NMI Technologietransfer GmbH.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals granted KOKEN a license to manufacture and provide RNAi research products and services under the Kreutzer-Limmer patent family.
ZyGEM named VERITAS Japan as its exclusive Japenese distributor.
ZenBio agreed to distribute CELLnTEC Advanced Cell Systems’ epithelial progenitor cell–targeted in vitro culture tools in North America.
Olink Bioscience named Axxora as a North American distributor and Space Import-Export as an Italian distributor.
Olink Bioscience acquired a family of three patents for rolling circle amplification from In Situ RCP A/S.
In November, Sigma-Adrich licensed rights from Polyplus-tranfection to manufacture and commercialize Zip Nucleic Acid oligonucleotides for research applications.
New England Peptide and Atlantic Cancer Research Institute partnered to develop peptide reagents that strongly bind to cancer-related proteins.
The Council for Science and Industrial Research in South Africa joined Thermo Fisher Scientific’s RNAi Global Initiative.
CYTOO SA opened a US subsidiary and named William T. Sharp president and CEO. He was formerly president and CEO of ArunA Biomedical.
Kreatech Diagnostics appointed Kees Moonen, former CEO of Green Cross Vaccine, as CEO and finalized a €2 million ($3 million) financing round.
In November, Blue Heron Biotechnology, DNA2.0, GENEART, GenScript and Integrated DNA formed the International Gene Synthesis Consortium to apply a common screening protocol to promote biosecurity.
Caprotec bioanalytics GmbH opened a US subsidiary in Burlington, Massachusetts, in November and partnered with Genovative Solutions for sales and marketing.
Product Introductions
Lonza launched the Cells on Demand Cell Culture and Transfection Services.
Bioo Scientific introduced the MaxDiscovery Flumequine ELISA kit for testing flumequine in food and feed.
GE Healthcare launched the Human Fab Capture Kit for its Biacore systems.
Link Technologies introduced a range of unlocked-nucleic acid monomers under license from RiboTask ApS.
Akonni Biosystems launched TruTip Kits for the extraction of DNA and RNA from samples with volumes from 100 µL to 1000 µL or more.
VisEn Medical launched the new Cat B750 FAST imaging agent for measuring and monitoring cathepsin B.

