Diploma PLC, the international group of businesses supplying specialised technical products and services, is pleased to announce the acquisition of 80% of Technopath (Distribution) (“TPD”). Put and call options have been included in the transaction to allow Diploma to acquire the outstanding 20% of shares over a period of up to 5 years. TPD is […]

Cambridge, UK — Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has entered a worldwide co-exclusive distribution agreement with Haplogen Genomics GmbH (Haplogen). The agreement provides Horizon with access to a new high-throughput, affordable cell line engineering service. […]

Vista, CA — American Peptide Company, Inc. (APC) (Vista, CA) a leading peptide manufacturer, and GlyTech Inc. (Kyoto, Japan), a world-leading developer of glycosylated drugs, announced today that they have entered into a co-promotion agreement for GlyTech’s glycosylation technology. As part of the agreement, APC will leverage its sales and marketing resources to enhance GlyTech’s […]

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Rocklin, California, based Cell Marque Corporation in a move to strengthen its antibody portfolio and to better serve immunohistochemistry (IHC) customers. Cell Marque designs, develops and manufactures antibody reagents and kits, an offering that will complement […]

Onefive GmbH and Leica Microsystems have signed an exclusive agreement on a pulsed stimulated emission depletion (STED) laser at 775 nanometre (nm), which will allow the Leica STED super-resolution microscope to achieve sub-30nm resolution in a simple and cost-effective manner, according to the company. Under the terms of the agreement, Onefive GmbH will be the […]

BOULDER, CO –- ViroCyt, LLC, the leader in rapid virus quantification, announced today that, in partnership with I&L Biosystems GmbH, it is formally launching the Virus Counter® 3100 in Europe at the World Vaccine Congress to be held October 13-15 in Brussels, Belgium. “The Virus Counter 3100 is the marquee analytical tool for quickly quantifying […]

Framingham, MA and San Diego, CA — AB SCIEX and Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today the OneOmicsTM project, an exclusive partnership to bring together SWATHTM-based next-generation proteomics (NGP) and next-generation sequencing (NGS) tools in a cloud computing environment. The AB SCIEX SWATHTM Proteomics Cloud Tool Kit suite of applications will be hosted in BaseSpace, Illumina’s […]

HOLLISTON, Mass. — Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of solutions to advance life science, has acquired two privately held life science companies: Multi Channel Systems MCS GmbH, headquartered in Reutlingen, Germany, and Triangle BioSystems, Inc., based in Durham, North Carolina, for a total of approximately $11 […]

CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) announced today that it has acquired FluidX Ltd. FluidX, headquartered near Manchester, England, is a provider of biological sample storage tubes and complementary bench-top instruments. The company was acquired for a cash payment equal to approximately $16 million. “FluidX is an important building block for Brooks Life Science […]

Beverly, MA, USA and Nijmegen, the Netherlands — Alpaqua Engineering, LLC, a provider of innovative genomic tools and solutions, announces today it has entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement with NimaGen, B.V., a leading provider of high quality, molecular biology products. In the terms of the agreement, NimaGen will distribute Alpaqua’s full line of magnet […]