Company Announcements The International Board of Biosafety Associations announced in April collaboration with Nuaire to improve the functionality of biological safety cabinets in Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions. JG Finneran Associates appointed Chebios in June as its exclusive distributor for Italy. Porvair reported that Seal Analytical sales for the half year ending May 31 […]
Company Announcements NorDiag sold its molecular diagnostics assets in May to DiaSorin for €7.6 million ($10.0 million) and changed its name to Norda. It will continue to sell its Magnatrix automated DNA purification systems. Precision System Science reorganized its structure, effective July 1, setting up a Global Sales & Marketing Group, Production and Supply Management […]
Horizon Technology started out as a company offering instruments that work with SPE disks but now offers the disks themselves. At the time of the company’s formation in 1993, SPE disks were a new alternative to SPE cartridges. “Disks are simply much faster when processing large samples, and more tolerant of sediment that might be […]
Discrete analyzers are instruments that automate the colorometric/photometric analysis process from sample preparation to final analysis. The technology employs individual wells, enabling testing of each sample as well as automated sample preparation of new samples while analyses are being performed. Sample and reagent addition and mixing are also automated. Discrete analyzers offer several advantages compared […]
Company Announcements In April, Horizon Technology named Axel Semrau its newest German distributor. Target Discovery expanded its strategic technology license and supply agreement with Pressure BioSciences for clinical lab testing services for the extraction of membrane protein biomarkers from human tissue. In May, Pressure BioSciences signed a strategic codevelopment, comarketing and coselling agreement with LEAP […]
Sample storage and management (SSM) systems provide storage and retrieval of compounds, biological samples or specimens used in a wide array of industries and applications from biotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, personalized medicine and biobanking. Typically, there are two types of SSM systems: smaller units, which are able to fit in most labs, and larger units, which […]
Company Announcements Gilson announced in February that its PIPETMAN products are now available through Fisher Scientific. Analytik Jena and SOTAX partnered in February to pair their respective SPECORD PLUS UV/Vis spectrometers and online dissolution systems. In March, Kewaunee Scientific named David M. Rausch president and COO. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of […]
Hilden, Germany and Germantown, MD 6/25/12—QIAGEN has announced the acquisition of next-generation sequencer (NGS) developer Intelligent Biosystems for an undisclosed amount. Further details of the acquisition were unavailable. QIAGEN disclosed the acquisition as part of a broader announcement of its entry into the NGS market. The company plans to launch a complete workflow for NGS, […]
Company Announcements Agilent and BGI announced in February a collaboration to develop methods for next-generation genome-wide association studies, with the goal of creating a next-generation super exome using Agilent’s SureSelect technology. In March, Pressure Biosciences named LA Biosystems its exclusive distributor for the Benelux countries. Pressure Biosciences is collaborating with Sage-N Research to develop software […]
The 23rd Analytica exhibition and conference took place in Munich, Germany, from April 17 to 20. As usual, it was a roaring success. Although the attendance of 30,000 was down slightly from 32,061 in 2010, it was hard to tell, given the general enthusiasm throughout the exhibition’s five halls. The number of exhibitors was up […]
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