Company Announcements

Novus Biologicals opened its first international office in Cambridge, UK, this spring. Between 15% and 20% of the company’s business is generated in Europe.

In May, Jerini AG agreed to sell JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH to TheraCode GmbH, a subsidiary of BioNTech AG, for €5 million ($7 million) in cash.

Under a May agreement, BioLegend will offer immunoassay development and bioanalytical testing based on PerkinElmer’s AlphaLISA assay technology.

Life Technologies signed a licensing and supply agreement with Zymera for its quantum-dots intellectual property for imaging and biomarker discovery applications.

Porvair Sciences appointed Universal Analytical & Testing Instruments as its strategic partner in China.

Link Technologies exclusively licensed Agilent’s TC RNA monomers for commercialization as reagents.

Product Introductions

PerkinElmer introduced its Western BLAST amplification technology for Western Blotting based on chromogenic (or colorimetric) blot detection, featuring sensitivity comparable to chemiluminescent techniques.

PerkinElmer released 16 GPCR and ion channel cell lines in April, bringing its GPCR cell line portfolio to over 300.

Cisbio Bioassays launched the Tag-lite cellular platform for cell-surface receptor study and screening, which combines its Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence detection technology with Covalys Biosciences’ SNAP-tag self-labeling protein system.

Agilent released a High Sensitivity DNA Kit for quality control, sizing and quantification of fragmented DNA and DNA libraries in the next-generation sequencing workflow. It is used with the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer.

Sigma-Aldrich introduced the MISSION esiRAN, a pool of gene-specific siRNA for RNAi screening that incorporates hundreds of siRNAs against a single gene target. The approach was developed by the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

Sigma-Aldrich launched Precisio Kinases, a collection of high-quality active kinases optimized for high-throughput kinase screening and profiling.

Invitrogen, in collaboration with the Buck Institute for Age Research, introduced Dynabeads SSEA-4 for separating undifferentiated stem cells from those that are differentiated.

Olink Bioscience introduced the Duolink Detection Kit HRP/NovaRED for use with brightfield microscopy.

Lab901 launched the ScreenTape P200 for rapid SDS-PAGE and analysis.

In May, caprotec bioanalytics introduced the Stauro caproKit for the discovery, identification and characterization of proteins interacting with staurosporine.