Company Announcements Following the acquisition of 95% of GENEART’s shares, Applied Biosystems GmbH agreed in November 2010 to pay €14.60 ($20.06) per share for minority shareholders’ shares (see IBO 4/30/10, 6/15/10). Contract research organization Domainex will collaborate with Sigma-Aldrich to use its Combinatorial Domain Hunting technology to produce soluble domains of a number of proteins […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies signed an exclusive license agreement for Novici Biotech’s ErrASE, a DNA error–correction kit. Life Technologies plans to integrate the technology into its synthetic biology offerings and retains rights to sublicense it. Life Technologies signed a strategic licensing agreement in November for exclusive rights to produce and supply Biopredic International’s cryopreserved HepaRG […]
Company Announcements Cisbio US agreed to distribute Multispan’s portfolio of cell lines in the US. Cisbio Bioassays announced in September that Promega’s HaloTag technology is available for use on its Tag-Lite platform. In October, Cisbio Bioassays partnered with Blue Sky BioProducts, the provider of TDA 2.0, a stable solution of lipid-based nanoparticles with nickel-chelating moieties. […]
Company Announcements Axiogenesis AG in-licensed the Yamanaka patent portfolio from iPS Academia for iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and other cell types. Sigma-Aldrich entered into a five-year agreement with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to develop methods to measure several potential biomarkers for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease using plasma samples. Sigma Life Science expects to develop antibody […]
Company Announcements Lonza licensed in June Axxam’s Photina, i-Photina and Clytin Photoproteins as calcium biosensors for its range of Clonetics Primary Cells. Promega partnered with SignalChem Pharmaceuticals in July to launch a complete solution for profiling kinase inhibitor compounds against the human kinome. The solution combines unique Kinase Enzyme Systems with Promega’s ADP-Glo Kinase Assay. […]
Company Announcements BioTime acquired ES Cell International, a provider of human embryonic stem cell technology, in May. Under an OEM agreement, Exiqon A/S will package BioDiscovery’s array image analysis and data analysis and visualization software with its miRNA arrays. Tocris Bioscience will distribute Jena Bioscience GmbH products in the US. ZyGEM acquired in May MicroLab […]
Company Announcements Sigma-Aldrich announced a corporate partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Advanced Training Center. Sigma-Aldrich will exclusively distribute Highlands Stable Isotope’s set of stable isotope–labeled synthetic reagents through its ISOTEC product lines. International Stem Cell’s Lifeline Cell Technology subsidiary named Veritas as its Japanese distributor. TriLink BioTechnologies named Cedarlane as a distributor for […]
Company Announcements ZyGEM opened a European support office in Bemmel, the Netherlands. Innova Biosciences appointed Genetimes Technology and NeoBioscience Technology as Chinese distributors. In March, Polyplus-transfection SA signed an agreement with metabion GmbH to manufacture and commercialize its Zip Nucleic Acid oligonucleotides for research and in vitro diagnostics applications. Lonza Cologne AG will exclusively distribute […]
Company Announcements ATCC announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Biological Industries for Israel. Affomix is providing the City of Hope with recombinant antibodies that are designed to be readily tagged with oligonucleotide “zipcodes,” making them compatible with next-generation sequencers. City of Hope will generate proteomic profile characteristics of a number of cancers. In January, VisEn […]
Fourth-quarter 2009 IBO Life Science Index sales rose 10.7% to $2,747.35 million, including 5% growth from currency transactions. Operating profit soared 20.3% to $550.05 million. Operating margins climbed 160 basis points to 20.0% of revenues. For the year, Index sales grew 2.1% to $9,683.69 million, including a 2% decline from currency. Operating profit grew 10.3% […]
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