Company Announcements

Microtissues signed a supply and distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich for its 3D Petri Dish.

Sigma-Aldrich agreed in February to distribute Olink Bioscience’s Duolink In Situ products for research.

In January, Evotec acquired Cell Culture Service for €1.2 million ($1.6 million) in cash.

Link Technologies named Zirench Technology as a distributor for China and GeneDesign as a distributor for Japan.

In February, Nordic Immunological Laboratories announced the acquisition of MUbio Holding.

Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products became a premier distributor for bioWorld.

Exiqon Life Sciences 2012 organic product sales increased 8% to DKK 85.0 million ($14.7 million) to account for 72% of revenue.

CELLTREAT Scientific Products announced in February an exclusive agreement with Daigger International for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Organovo partnered with ZenBio in February to develop three-dimensional human tissues for drug discovery and advanced tissue therapies.

Life Technologies signed a collaborative research agreement and related license in March with Harvard University, acquiring exclusive rights to develop assays to evaluate hPS cell quality. The panel will be offered on Life’s sequencing and PCR-based genetic analysis platforms.

Product Introductions

Thermo Fisher Scientific released Thermo Scientific HyClone, HyCryo and HyCryo-STEM serum-free, animal component–free cryopreservation media, designed specifically for stem cell applications.

Tonbo Biosciences launched in January its first line of immunophenotyping reagents and will add an additional one thousand such products during the first quarter.

Rockland Immunochemicals released Host Cell Protein antibodies that detect high, medium and low molecular weight proteins.

LifeSpan BioSciences announced the addition of more than 1,200 IHC-plus immunohistochemistry antibodies to its catalog, including 900 antibodies targeting GPCRs.

TransOMIC technologies, in partnership with Clontech, launched in January the MGC premier Tagged ORF collections for gene and protein analysis, a collection of ORF expression vectors for protein expression.

Promega released the MethylEdge Bisulfite Conversion System for DNA methylation analysis.

Sigma-Aldrich, through an exclusive collaboration with Drs. Hideo Iba and Takeshi Haraguchi at the University of Tokyo, launched MISSION Synthetic and Lentiviral miRNA Inhibitors based upon the Tough Decoy design.