Company Announcements

CEM signed an exclusive licensing agreement in February with SpheriTech to manufacture and sell SpheriTide-based resins, with an initial focus on peptide synthesis.

In March, PerkinElmer collaborated with China’s Fudan University Shanghai Medical College to open a 90 m2 joint small-animal in vivo–imaging demonstration lab.

Gyros named Tekon Biotech as the exclusive distributor of its systems in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

In April, ProteinSimple announced the opening of an office in Tokyo, Japan.

CollabRx agreed to optimize the use of its Genetic Varian Annotation Service in connection with Affymetrix’s OncoScan FFPE Assay Kit and CytoScan Cytogenetics Suite for analysis of CNV in cancer research.

InDevR and Applied Microarrays partnered to offer a complete system solution for multiplexed assays.

Morpho agreed in April to market IntegenX’s RapidHIT system.

NanoString Technologies named Tina S. Nova, PhD, cofounder and former president of Genoptix, to its Board.

Dolomite agreed in May to exclusively distribute Sphere Fluidics’ biochips, surfactants and specialist chemicals for picodroplet applications.

Product Introductions

Oxford Gene Technology expanded its CytoSure Molecular Array aCGH line in March to include detection of CNV in genes associated with over 20 genetic disorders.

Oxford Gene Technology launched in April the hybridization-based, 60-gene SureSeq Solid Tumor Panel for solid-tumor profiling of known and novel variants.

Scientific Digital Imaging introduced in March the G:BOX Chem XX6 and XX9 systems for imaging of 1D, 2D, chemiluminescent and fluorescent blots.

GE Healthcare introduced the Amersham Imager 600 Series for digital imaging of protein and DNA samples in gels and membranes.

Biametrics launched in Europe the b-screen label-free microarray screening device for the characterization of kinetic and affinity data, specificity, concentration and thermodynamic data in biomolecular interactions. It can use any standard microarray format and can detect up to 10,000 biomolecular interactions in one measurement.

EMD Millipore released five new GyroMark HT immunoassay kits for use on Gyros’s Gyrolab xP workstation. Up to 480 data points can be generated in a run.

In April, Biolytic Lab Performance introduced the Dr. Oligo Synthesizer, which can synthesize from 1 to 768 oligos in one run.

NanoString Technologies released the nCounter PanCancer Pathways Panel, a highly multiplexed digital gene-expression assay that includes 770 genes.