PerkinElmer has launched the AlphaPlex reagent technology for multiplex immunoassay analysis. AlphaPlex is based on the company’s Alpha (amplified luminescence proximity homogenous assays) technology, a homogeneous, bead-based, no-wash assay platform. Alpha Technology offerings also include the AlphaLISA and AlphaScreen reagents. Based on the transfer of energy between Donor and Acceptor beads, AlphaPlex can generate multiple […]
Company Announcements For the first six months, sales for Mettler-Toledo‘s Laboratory business grew 6% excluding currency to roughly $533 million to account for 46% of revenues. First and second quarter Laboratory sales advanced 7% and 6% excluding currency, respectively. Sales growth was driven by increased demand and favorable pricing for analytical instruments and laboratory balances. […]
An unfortunate consequence of the recent explosion in next-generation sequencing (NGS) activity is the huge amount of generated data that are unused or not used to their full potential. Analysis of sequence data can take orders of magnitude more time than producing it and, as a result, is unable to keep pace. The existence of […]
Company Announcements Avacta announced in May a collaboration with UbiQ Bio to develop ubiquitin-specific antibodies. In June, Cambridge Research Biochemicals announced an exclusive supply-and-marketing agreement for its BIONET brand peptides with Key Organics. Cellectis granted Thermo Fisher Scientific a license to its TAL nucleases, currently marketed by Thermo under the brand name TALEN, outside the […]
Company Announcements Clontech Laboratories, a subsidiary of Takara Bio, partnered with Vectalys in May to combine its Living Colors fluorescent protein and Tet-On 3G technologies with Vectalys’s expertise in providing ready-to-use lentiviral particles as vectors for gene delivery. The initial product offering will include somatic-cell–reprogramming kits used to generate iPSCs. Horizon Discovery entered into a […]
Company Announcements Promethera Biosciences and EMD Millipore announced in March a collaboration to develop an improved ready-to-use, microfluidic perfusion liver assay. In Vitro ADMET Laboratories and Taconic signed an agreement to commercialize cryopreserved hepatocytes. NMI Technology Transfer will develop Chromobody-expressing cell types to create novel cell lines for distribution and comarketing by ChromoTek. ChromoTek’s Chromobodies […]
Company Announcements Exiqon’s 2013 revenues grew 5.3% to DKK 123.6 million ($22.0 million) (see page 12). Life Sciences product sales rose 13.6% to 78% of total sales. Fourth quarter 2013 sales were negatively affected by supplier problems. For the first three quarters, North American sales increased 14.0% to DKK 34.3 million ($6.1 million). The company […]
At a time when large exhibitions seem to be declining in attendance and exhibitor participation, Analytica has clearly established itself as a “must-attend event” based on a proven formula for success. The trade fair took place May 10–13 in Munich, Germany. Held at an outstanding modern venue in the heart of Europe, well planned and […]
Company Announcements In January, Cellectis announced that it integrated its Ectycell and Cellectis bioresearch segments. Cellectis bioresearch also completed a capital increase of €3.5 million ($4.8 million) from Caisse des Dépôts, which now holds a 24.5% share in Cellectis bioresearch (see IBO 12/15/13). Biomatrica signed a distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich in January. TGR BioSciences and […]
Company Announcements Takara Bio expanded its license agreement with iPS Academia Japan in September 2013, enabling it to offer iPS cell construction services and reprogramming vectors, and to sublicense to its customers the right to screen chemicals for drug discovery using cells differentiated from iPS cells derived from the licensed products. Novus Biologicals acquired Imgenex […]
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