Company Announcements

MetaSystems and Xenometrix partnered to comarket their respective Metafer image analysis system and Ames mutagenicity assays.

DV Biologics named Cambridge Bioscience as a European distributor.

Golub Capital provided Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) with $12.0 million of senior subordinated debt in April.

Cellular Dynamics International closed a $40.6 million Series B private equity round in April.

Cellular Dynamics signed a licensing agreement with iPS Academia Japan related to the work of Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, for turning human skin cells into pluripotent stem cells.

Polyplus-transfection SA named Mark Bloomfield CEO in April. He served as division vice president for Applied Biosystems’ Molecular & Cell Biology Business Unit.

In May, Stemgent and Miltenyi Biotec announced a strategic collaboration for codevelopment of stem cell research products that will be commercialized exclusively by Miltenyi Biotec. Miltenyi Biotec will also distribute existing Stemgent products outside the US and made an equity investment in the company.

Caprotec bioanalytics GmbH closed a $5.1 million Series B financing round in May.

OriGene Technologies announced in May that it will build a high-throughput monoclonal antibody production center in Wuxi, China, which will have over one thousand employees and the capability to produce over 20,000 TrueMAB antibodies per year.

Product Introductions

Epigentek launched the BisulFlash DNA Modification kit, which completely converts unmethylated cytosine into uracil in 30 minutes.

Eppendorf AG introduced the new Protein LoBind Deepwell Plate 96/2000 µL, extending the LoBind products to 96-well high-volume plate formats.

ForteBio released the Anti-Penta-HIS biosensors for label-free quantitation of HIS-tagged proteins.

IDT launched GMP analytical services in April for its oligo customers.

PerkinElmer released the Western Lighting Ultra chemiluminescent substrate kit.

Beckman Coulter introduced the Cell Lab Signaling Cytometry line of reagents, which are flow-validated antibodies for multiparametric-signaling cytometry.

Luminex and High Throughput Genomics launched the qBead Gene Expression Assay, a custom gene expression product suited for use with degraded samples.

New England Peptide launched the NEPTune custom proteomics reagents: Assay Discovery, Assay Verification Assay Refinement and Clinical Assay Peptides.