CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM and KNOXVILLE, TN – Expedeon, Ltd. and Protein Discovery, Inc. today announced a definitive agreement to merge to create a leading supplier of advanced products for protein research. The new Expedeon will be a global supplier of unique protein analysis and purification products used by thousands of scientists worldwide. Financial terms of […]
Cambridge, UK – Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, announced it has entered into a three year Technology Access Agreement with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both divisions of the National Institutes of Health. The focus of […]
Affymetrix Completes Strategic Licensing Agreement with Genisphere for Proprietary MicroRNA Reagents
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix®, Inc. announced today at the Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP) conference that they have entered into an exclusive agreement with Genisphere®, LLC, to offer the company’s proprietary FlashTag™ Biotin HSR Reagents designed for Affymetrix. The miRNA reagents provide streamlined, high-fidelity target preparation methods yielding high quality data and unmatched reproducibility […]
HATFIELD, PA – Genisphere, LLC., a developer of life science technology solutions, today announced two agreements to exclusively license the company’s RNA Target Amplification and FlashTag™ Biotin microRNA labeling technologies to Affymetrix®, Inc. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Affymetrix will utilize the two technologies to further its position as the leader in […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix®, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive, worldwide licensing agreement with Genisphere®, LLC, for RNA amplification and labeling technology to address challenging sample types including formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples for GeneChip® Arrays. These FFPE samples, common in cancer and translational research, are an untapped resource of valuable […]
Bad Ragaz/Switzerland / Syracuse/New York — INFICON, a leading manufacturer of instrumentation and process control software for the semiconductor and vacuum-coating industries and other industrial applications, has acquired the assets of Photovac Inc., a developer and manufacturer of volatile organic compound (VOC) detection equipment. The addition of Photovac’s products and sensor technology to the already […]
HILLSBORO, Ore. – FEI, a leading instrumentation company providing imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, today announced that it has acquired TILL Photonics of Munich, Germany. TILL provides sophisticated, high resolution, digital light microscopes and high speed imaging systems for live cell fluorescence microscopy. “The Life Sciences market is a key growth opportunity […]
Wetzlar, Germany / Delhi, India. Leica Microsystems, a world leading provider of microscopy systems and total histology solutions, today announced that it has acquired the microscopy and histopathology business of Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd., a leading solutions and service provider in India. This transition comes after more than 20 years during which Labindia has successfully […]
MILFORD, Mass. – Announced at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Hawaii, Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), along with Mars Incorporated and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), jointly pledged $1 million to create the first ever Global Food Safety Capacity Building fund. To be managed by the World Bank, the proposed fund will […]
Melbourne, Australia and Menlo Park, CA, USA: Millennium Science, a life science distributor specialising in high-technology research solutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) announced today that they have entered an agreement to appoint Millennium Science as Pacific Biosciences’ sole distributor in Australia and New Zealand for PacBio’s breakthrough […]
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