Company Announcements

Protein Discovery and New Objective announced a strategic comarketing and development agreement for Protein Discovery’s GELFREE 8100 Fractionation System and New Objective’s PicoFrit nanobore chromatography columns and Digital PicoView nanospray sources.

Denator AB announced the completion of a fourth round of financing in fall 2009 that raised SEK 15 million ($2.2 million).

In February, Denator AB signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Bucher Biotec AG for Switzerland.

Microchip Biotechnologies raised $18.1 million in Series B financing in November 2009.

In December 2009, Agilent named Fasteris SA as its first European Certified Service Provider for its SureSelect Target Enrichment System.

In January, Biotage began 100% direct sales for its solid phase extraction products in the UK.

Agilent and Covaris announced in January a comarketing agreement for their respective SureSelect Target Enrichment System and S2 DNA shearing technology for streamlining next-generation sequencing experiments.

Product Introductions

RainDance Technologies expanded the capabilities of its Sequence Enrichment Solution to enable resequencing of 20,000 PCR targets.

Millipore released the Milex 13 mm sample preparation syringe filter, redesigned for greater speed and recovery.

Markes International introduced a higher-temperature, larger-capacity version of its Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor for the measurement of volatile organic compounds.

TEMwindows.com, a SiMPore company, introduced the SepCon Spin Columns for the separation of nanoparticles that differ in size by 5 nm or less.

Spectrum Laboratories launched the Tube-A-Lyzer, a disposable device incorporating a semi-permeable membrane tubing in a flow-through dialysate chamber.

NuGEN Technologies introduced the Ovation RNA-Seq System for next-generation sequencing. It does not require poly(A) selection or ribosomal RNA depletion.

Fluidigm released the 48.48 Access Array integrated fluidic chip for 454 FLX users active in amplicon tagging. It generates emPCR-ready libraries.

In February, Fluidigm released its amplicon tagging protocol for the Illumina GA II next-generation sequencer.

Ceres Nanosciences launched the Nanotrap ESP Particles for improving the sensitivity of gel electrophoresis detection methods.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Thermo Scientific Aspire Protein A, Protein G and IMAC Cobalt Chromatography 1 mL pipette tips.