Company Announcements In September, Sandia Biotech entered into a coexclusive distribution and marketing agreement with Sigma-Aldrich for its Split Fluorescent Protein product line. Porvair exclusively licensed technology to Thermo Fisher Scientific for a range of life science sample preparation filters, which it will also manufacture. Life Technologies agreed to distribute to the research market Advanced […]
Third quarter revenues for IBO’s Lab Equipment/Consumables Sales Index grew 1.4%, 2.8% excluding currency, to $4,060 million. Operating profits for the Index rose 3.9% to $699 million. Based on continuing operations, operating margin expanded 40 basis points to 18.2% of sales. Kewaunee Scientific’s fiscal second quarter 2014 sales ending October 31 contracted 16.3% to $26.1 […]
Company Announcements In July, Fluidigm and Olink Bioscience announced they will comarket their respective BioMark HD System and Proseek Multiplex technology to enable the interrogation of 96 samples across 92 proteins in a single run from 1 µL of sample in less than a day. Source BioScience acquired publicly held Vindon Healthcare, a manufacturer of […]
Molecular cytogenetic technologies have become vitally important in the analysis of chromosomes for both diagnostics and research applications. Technologies such as fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and microarrays are replacing traditional karyotyping. FISH uses fluorescent probes that bind to the complementary DNA sequence on a chromosome. The samples are typically placed on a glass slide, […]
Company Announcements Michael E. Falk resigned for personal reasons from Cellular Dynamics International’s Board in August. In August, JSR became a minority owner in SCIVAX Life Sciences and will develop and expand SCIVEX’s 3D cell culture business and distribute products. AMSBIO agreed to distribute Sanguine BioSciences’ biospecimen collection products in Europe. ATCC announced in August […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies granted Suzhou Ribo Life Sciences exclusive rights to develop and manufacture siRNA therapeutics in China using its Invivofectamine Rx delivery technology. In July, Life Technologies announced a long-term supply and exclusive licensing agreement with Novartis for immunotherapeutics involving T cells modified to express chimeric antigen receptors for the treatment of cancer. […]
Company Announcements Japanese firm JSR signed a business alliance agreement with antibody supplier Medical & Biological Laboratories in March and acquired a 33% stake in the company for ¥4.5 billion ($47.6 million). Areas of codevelopment include latex bead reagents and epigenome-related reagents. Vitro Biopharma expanded its agreement with distributor Neuromics to include the drug discovery […]
Company Announcements Sigma Life Science agreed in April to distribute the European Collection of Cell Cultures, a collection of human and animal cell cultures. Sigma has exclusive distribution rights, excluding the UK, Australia and Japan. The Business Standard reported in April that Sigma-Aldrich will distribute GE Healthcare’s Whatman products in India. In April, BellBrook Labs […]
Company Announcements In March, Roche signed an R&D agreement with BioLamina to jointly develop new cell culture systems for various applications, including stem cell research. The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Sony DADC announced a collaboration to further advance the Institute’s Organs-on-Chip technologies. Techne named Charles Kummeth CEO, effective April […]
Company Announcements Microtissues signed a supply and distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich for its 3D Petri Dish. Sigma-Aldrich agreed in February to distribute Olink Bioscience’s Duolink In Situ products for research. In January, Evotec acquired Cell Culture Service for €1.2 million ($1.6 million) in cash. Link Technologies named Zirench Technology as a distributor for China and […]
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