Basel, Switzerland 6/30/16—Pharmaceutical industry supplier Lonza has announced the acquisition of Triangle Research Labs (TRL) from PBM Capital. Financial details were not disclosed. TRL provides fresh and cryopreserved hepatocytes and non-parenchymal cells from multiple species, and supporting media and culture systems. “Integrating this business into its primary cell portfolio lays the basis for new product […]
Goettingen, Germany 6/28/16; Albuquerque, NM 6/28/16—Pharmaceutical and lab equipment supplier Sartorius has acquired IntelliCyt for $90 million in cash, including $5 million in future tax savings. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with 55 employees, IntelliCyt provides cell screening platforms for drug discovery applications. IntelliCyt’s revenues are expected to increase approximately 34% in 2016 to more […]
Carlsbad, CA 6/13/16—Thermo Fisher Scientific has signed a strategic partnership with Cytonome/ST for cell sorting. The companies will codevelop an easy-to-use cell sorting platform that Thermo Fisher will exclusively distribute. Thermo Fisher told IBO the product is expected to be introduced in the first half of 2017.
Company Announcements In February, publicly held Japanese firm SCREEN Holdings acquired Japanese-based Alpha MED Scientific, the producer of the MED64 microelectrode array system for the measurement of extracellular field potential. Applied Biophysics named ibidi USA as a representative for US and Canada. BioAxial, developer of Conical Diffraction Microscopy, named Georges Tabary as president and CEO […]
Fremont, CA and Mountain View, CA 5/13/16—Takara Bio USA (TBUSA), a provider of life science reagents and kits, has announced an agreement to acquire single-cell analysis instrument firm WaferGen Bio-systems. TBUSA will pay up to $50.0 million based on a 1.0–3.5 multiple of WaferGen’s 2016 revenues. “The combination of TBUSA’s RNA-seq and T Cell Receptor […]
The 2016 American Association for Cancer Research conference (AACR) was held April 20–26 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Keynote speaker Vice President Joe Biden addressed nearly four thousand assembled on the final day and remarked, “There is more brain power in this room than exists in many countries. And we need you. You’re the very best […]
Minneapolis, MN 3/31/16—Bio-Techne has purchased Zephyrus Biosciences for an undisclosed amount. Zephyrus’s Z1 System is designed for western blotting of individual cells. “This new technology brings this technique to the single-cell level, allowing us to address both homogeneous sample populations with our Simple Western platforms and now heterogeneous populations at the single-cell level with Zephyrus […]
Although the use of 2D cellular assays for drug discovery predominates, the adoption of 3D assays is steadily growing. Three-dimensional assays (also known as 3D microtissues) are self-generated clusters of cell colonies. Such assays provide greater physiological and morphological relevance compared to 2D assays, aiming to reduce drug candidate failures and the use of animal […]
Company Announcements Berkeley Lights, which is developing nanofluidic biosystems for single-cell analysis, announced in September 2015 that it raised $90 million in funding to date in partnership with Sequoia and Walden Riverwood Ventures. Berkeley Lights announced early access agreements with the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai and the University of […]
The annual Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) conference was held in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, this year. Conference attendance increased for the third year in a row and included 559 attendees and 237 exhibitors. ABRF 2017 will be held in San Diego, California. Over three days, the 45 conference presentations and workshops addressed five topic […]
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