New York, NY and Tokyo, Japan 2/9/10—Sony Corporation of America has acquired iCyt Mission Technology, a provider of cell sorters, for an undisclosed amount. “We are confident that this acquisition will accelerate the development of Sony’s flow cytometry business by combining Sony’s expertise in the manufacturing of electronics products for consumers and professionals with the […]
Company Announcements Sigma-Aldrich now exclusively distributes Stemgent’s portfolio of lentivirus-based delivery systems for the generation of induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells. Cisbio Biosassays established sales operations in China and South Korea in November 2009. Representatives of febit, GENEART, Ginkgo BioWorks, Biosearch Technologies and Sutro Biopharma are among the founding members of the Synthetic Biology Industry […]
The importance of a company’s web site for sales and marketing is common knowledge. For life science research consumables, online sales and marketing are especially important. Rapid advances in the life science field, as well as the specialization and customization of reagents, kits and consumables used for life science research make purchasing online a natural […]
Company Announcements INTAVIS AG acquired the peptide synthesis unit of NMI Technologietransfer GmbH. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals granted KOKEN a license to manufacture and provide RNAi research products and services under the Kreutzer-Limmer patent family. ZyGEM named VERITAS Japan as its exclusive Japenese distributor. ZenBio agreed to distribute CELLnTEC Advanced Cell Systems’ epithelial progenitor cell–targeted in vitro […]
Company Announcements Sigma-Aldrich elected Dr. George M. Church to its Board in October. He is a professor of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. Sigma-Aldrich expanded its license with Sangamo BioSciences to include exclusive rights to develop and distribute zinc finger DNA binding protein-modified cell lines for commercial production of protein pharmaceuticals. STEMCELL Technologies announced […]
Company Announcements RiNA GmbH acquired the RTS Protein Expression portfolio of cell-free expression kits from Roche Applied Science in September. 5PRIME will assume responsibility for sales, support and distribution. New England Peptide opened a West Coast development office in San Francisco, California, in September. Sigma-Aldrich will distribute BioLife Solutions’ HypoTermosol and CryoStor biopreservation media products. […]
Company Announcements Fiscal 2009 sales ended March 31 for Takara Biotech’s Genetic Engineering Research segment declined 7.5% to ¥16,733 million ($166.5 million) to make up 88.5% of company revenues. Segment operating income fell 8.4% to ¥3,819 million ($38.0 million). Sales of research reagents and large-scale scientific instruments both declined. The company will focus on developing […]
Company Announcements Millipore will exclusively develop and sell Luminex bead-based multiplex immunoassays to measure Proteome Sciences’ Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and other cognitive function disorders for research applications. Under a comarketing agreement, Millipore became the distributor of BioTime subsidiary Embryome Sciences’ ACTCellerate human progenitor cell lines. Lifecore Biomedical agreed to distribute Hyalose’s line of hyaluroanan research […]
Company Announcements ZyGEM signed exclusive distribution agreements with Shanghai Sangon Biological Engineering Technology & Services for China and SolGent for South Korea. The company also agreed to codistribute products from Integrated DNA Technologies, Quanta Biosciences, Biometrica and Porvair Services in New Zealand and certain parts of Australia. Rubicon Genomics incorporated ZyGEM’s enzymatic nucleic acid extraction […]
Company Announcements Novus Biologicals opened its first international office in Cambridge, UK, this spring. Between 15% and 20% of the company’s business is generated in Europe. In May, Jerini AG agreed to sell JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH to TheraCode GmbH, a subsidiary of BioNTech AG, for €5 million ($7 million) in cash. Under a May […]
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