Darmstadt, Germany 8/30/11; Seattle, Washington 8/30/11—Merck Millipore has agreed to acquire Amnis, a designer, manufacturer and seller of high-speed cell-imaging instrumentation. Financial terms were not provided. Amnis had 2010 sales of $14 million. The company has 40 employees. “Amnis’ technology will put EMD Millipore at the forefront of cell analysis by providing us access to […]
High-throughput electroporators employ a microplate format, which allows simultaneous transfections of up to 384 wells. Electroporation introduces nucleic acids into cells by exposing the cells to a rapid pulse of voltage that causes the pores in the cells’ membranes to open temporarily. Unlike other transfection methods, there is no limit to the size of DNA […]
Chalfont St. Giles, UK 4/28/11—GE Healthcare has agreed to acquire Applied Precision for an undisclosed amount. Applied Precision supplies cellular imaging technology for the cell biology and biomedical research sectors, including high-resolution and super-resolution microscopy instruments with software and data visualization tools. The company has 130 employees and recorded 2010 revenues of $37 million, with […]
Company Announcements Cellectis granted Harvard Apparatus, a Harvard Bioscience company, an exclusive license to manufacture and sell for research use the full line of electroporation-based instruments that it acquired from CytoPulse (see IBO 11/30/10). Cellectis will receive a $1.3 million payment. In February, InDevR announced the establishment of six distribution agreements for the ViroCyte 2100 […]
Millville, NJ 2/9/11—Wheaton Industries has acquired UK-based Laboratory Sales Limited (LSL), a manufacturer and distributor of tubular glass products and lab consumables. “This strategic investment further strengthens our position as a market leader of specialty packaging and related instruments for cell-based research, chemical compound, in vitro diagnostics and specialty pharmaceutical markets,” commented Wheaton Industries President […]
Fluxion Bioscience’s BioFlux 1000Z system for live cell imaging was launched in December. The system simulates physiological environments while performing in vitro cell-based assays utilizing microfluidic channels to drive the flow across the cellular sample. Unlike the BioFlux 1000, which is used with a Nikon microscope, this model is built around the Zeiss AxioObserver microscopy […]
Company Announcements Tecan and Miltenyi Biotech are developing a range of automated solutions for cell biology based on their respective Freedom EVO liquid handling platform and MACS magnetic bead technology. Accuri Cytometers in August named BioTech as its exclusive distributor for the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary. In October, Accuri Cytometers named GrupoBios as […]
Sales of biosimilars, or follow-on biologics, could reach $10 billion by 2015, according to The Economist. US healthcare reform legislation signed into law earlier this year created an abbreviated FDA approval pathway for biosimilars. This month, the FDA held a two-day hearing about how to implement this pathway. Also this month, the European Medicine Agency […]
Laser capture microdissection (LCM) is a method used to isolate cells from bodies of cells and tissues by utilizing IR and/or UV lasers. LCM was first introduced in 1996 by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and was primarily used to isolate cell groups from fixed tissues. It was not until recently that the […]
Company Announcements Chip-Man Technologies appointed Ionovation GmbH as its German distributor. Nanion Technologies GmbH announced in April that a European Patent Office’s (EPO) Board of Appeal overturned a decision to uphold EP No. 1 040 349 owned by Molecular Devices, stating the patent must be amended to exclusively describe a positioning method using electrical fields […]
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