Company Announcements As the result of an expanded licensing and commercialization relationship with Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Rockland Immunochemicals now markets CellCountEZ, OxPhos, RadDose and Intracelluar ThioEZ assays and additional products. StemCells partnered with R Biomedical to develop and commercialize a range of cell lines and reagents to facilitate human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) […]
Due to IBO’s annual January 15 forecast issue, third-quarter results for the Lab Equipment/Consumables Index are presented in this issue. Third-quarter revenues for the Index grew 0.4%, 2.2% excluding currency, to $4,007 million. Operating profits rose 1.1% to $672 million. Based on continuing operations, operating margin slipped 10 basis points to 17.8% of sales. Kewaunee […]
Company Announcements Abcam’s sales for the fiscal year ending June 30 rose 17.5% to £97.8 million ($155.2 million) (see IBO 9/15/12). Excluding acquisitions, sales rose 11.9%, or 11.5% in constant currency. Adjusted operating profit grew 20.9% to £38.6 million ($61.3 million). Sales to the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa, Japan, and Asia Pacific grew 9.7%, 10.1%, 17.1% […]
Company Announcements ATCC agreed in August to distribute a select set of Horizon Discovery’s panels of X-MAN isogenic cell lines to academic and nonprofit customers as part of or in conjunction with its Tumor Cell Panels for non-commercial research. EMD agreed in August to distribute Plasticell’s single-application osteogenic medium, which is serum free and xeno […]
Company Announcements Under a May collaboration agreement, Affymetrix’s QuantiGene ViewRNA In Situ Hybridization Tissue Assay will be automated on Leica Microsystem’s BOND RX staining platform for research applications. In June, Affymetrix announced a research collaboration licensing agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital to codevelop new cancer biomarker tests using its QuantiGene ViewRNA Assay platform. Affymetrix expanded […]
Stem cell research is steadily moving forward. As the award this month of the Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, who created the first induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), shows, the ability to create stem cells from somatic cells has changed scientific research. Contributing to the research’s advancement has been rapid progress in […]
Company Announcements ZyGEM entered into an OEM agreement for the incorporation of its enzymatic RNA extraction technology into Quanta BioSciences’ quantitative PCR kits. In May, LaserGen named Mimi Healy, PhD, CEO. She was previously CEO of Bacterial Barcodes. BioCellChallenge named Bulldog Bio as its exclusive US distributor. Affymetrix announced in May that it will distribute […]
Held July 15–19 in Los Angeles, California, the annual American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) conference hosted tens of thousands of attendees. The conference presentations and exhibits encompassed both traditional clinical chemistry technologies, such as clinical analyzers, as well as molecular diagnostics techniques, including DNA sequencing and PCR. The conference was held at an interesting […]
Company Announcements Expanding their current agreement, in March, Cosmo Bio assumed a leadership position in Japan for the promotion, sale and high-level support of Enzo Life Sciences products. Also, Enzo will expand its global distribution of Cosmo Bio’s research biotools. Cellular Dynamics expanded its agreement with iPS Academia Japan to include iCell Neurons and iCell […]
Company Announcements BioServ Biotechnologies acquired the majority of Ocimum Biosolutions Inc.’s assets in February (see IBO 12/15/11), according to thedeal.com. Harvard Bioscience’s Biochrom subsidiary acquired AHN Biotechnologie, a German manufacturer of plastic consumables lab products, in February. The purchase is expected to add $2.5 million in annual revenue. In February, BellBrook Labs announced that Thermo […]
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