Product Introductions Phenomenex introduced the Strata Melamine SPE cartridges, containing an SPE sorbent that simultaneously extracts melamine and cyanuric acid. Sigma-Aldrich Supelco released the Supel-Tips Micro Pipette Tips for purification and enrichment. Sigma-Aldrich Supelco launched Supel-Select HLB SPE, a new hydrophilic modified styrene-based polymer phase for SPE. In May, MIP Technologies AB and Sigma-Aldrich Supelco […]
Company Announcements First-quarter revenue for Gerresheimer GmbH’s Life Science Division rose 2.8% to €22.4 million ($29.5 million) (see IBO 4/15/09). In constant currency, sales declined 9.7%. The company reported that orders slowed due to a reduction in customers’ inventory levels. Donau Lab AG will distribute Sartorius AG laboratory products in Eastern Europe, Russia and the […]
The 57th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) meeting was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 31 though June 4. Despite the recession, attendance only declined slightly to 6,542, down from 6,569 in 2008 (see IBO 6/15/08). The number of exhibitors contracted for the second year in a row, declining to 165 from 171 in […]
Company Announcements Dionex acquired Caliper Life Sciences’ AutoTrace Solid Phase Extraction Workstation product line for in November 2008 for $5 million. AutoTrace had 2007 sales of $3.1 million. Asemblon, a provider of self-assembled monolayer chemistries, signed an international distribution agreement with VWR International in January. Pamela Forbes Lieberman joined VWR International’s Board in January. She […]
Company Announcements In the third quarter of 2008, Caliper Life Sciences restructured its business into three units (Discovery Research, Optical Molecular Imaging and Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services) to create a more scalable infrastructure, resulting in a workforce reduction. The initiative is expected to achieve $2.6 million in annualized savings. Caliper entered into a licensing […]
Analytical instrument and laboratory product companies are celebrating the passage of US President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which was signed into law on February 17. The ARRA provides $600 million directly for laboratory instrument purchases. It is also expected that part of the funding for research grants will […]
Next-generation sequencing is among the fastest-growing markets in the life science instrument market, with 2009 instrument demand estimated to increase more than 40%. The advent of next-generation sequencing has birthed the need for novel approaches to sample preparation (for the purpose of this article, sample preparation encompasses purification, fragmentation, target capture and enrichment prior to […]
Company Announcements Cell Projects entered into a commercial license and development agreement in October 2008 with Queen’s University in Canada, covering several new electroporation technologies for adherent and in situ cell electroporation. Fluxion Biosciences named two new distributors: Labtech International for the UK, Ireland and France, and Westburg BV for Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, […]
Spotting a molecular biologist in the lab used to be quite easy. He was usually the scientist with a bucket of ice in one arm and a mortar and pestle in the other arm. While this stereotype might still hold true at many universities and, perhaps, in some private laboratories, molecular biologists are now using […]
San Diego, CA and Oxford, UK 1/11/09—Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies announced a strategic alliance to develop and sell single-molecule DNA sequencing technology. Under a commercialization agreement, Illumina will exclusively market, sell, distribute and service Oxford Nanopore’s BASE Technology products into the research and diagnostic markets. The companies will share profits from the sales. Illumina […]
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