Company Announcements Stemgent coexclusively licensed Cell Design’s AdipoDesign Starter Kit and AdipoDesign MaxiKit. Gene synthesis firm Gene Oracle named Sigma-Aldrich its exclusive supplier of custom oligonucleotides, and the companies will comarket its GeneIOS system. StemCells acquired Stem Cell Sciences, a provider of media formulation and reagents, in April for 2,650,000 shares and $700,000 in cash. […]
Company Announcements Exiqon’s Research Product sales grew 43% in 2008. Exiqon expects the business to be cash flow positive by the end of 2009. Norgen Biotek signed an OEM manufacturing and supply agreement to supply Exiqon with RNA purification kits. Stemgent will market certain research reagents for inducible stem cell technology based on TET Systems’ […]
Company Announcements Caprotec bioanalytics GmbH named Funakoshi as the exclusive distributor of its research products in Japan. Agilent announced in February that it will exclusively distribute and provide marketing and support for Protein Discovery’s PPS Silent Surfactant, an acid-cleavable, zwitterionic detergent for sample preparation prior to MS. In February, OriGene Technologies announced that it raised […]
Company Announcements In January, MicroBioLogics acquired the assets of Gibson Laboratories, which supplies specialty media products, microorganisms, diagnostics and proficiency testing supplies. MicroBioLogics established a new subsidiary named Gibson Laboratories and will retain key members of Gibson’s management team. Integrated DNA Technologies signed a license agreement with LI-COR Biosciences to manufacture oligos for sale using […]
Company Announcements Sigma-Aldrich agreed to exclusively distribute research quantities of SouthWest NanoTechnologies’ SWeNT CG 100, SG 65 and SG 76 single-wall carbon nanotubes through its Aldrich division. In January, Sigma-Aldrich acquired the antibody-based Seppro affinity depletion technology and a library of 7,000 avian-derived antibodies from Genway Biotech. In December 2008, bioMerieux acquired PML Microbiologicals, a […]
Company Announcements Empire Genomics will develop locus-specific DNA probes for One Cell Systems for slide-based FISH applications. Empire will also comarket One Cell’s synthetic oligonucleotide probes for chromosome enumeration. In November 2008, QIAGEN licensed certain methylation technologies from OncoMethylome Sciences for use in its EpiTect product line. Five new members joined the RNAi Global Initiative, […]
Company Announcements Organic revenues for Merck KGaA’s Life Science Solutions business increased 13% in the second quarter and 8.0% in the third quarter. Sigma-Aldrich exclusively licensed boronic acid surrogates for use in Suzuki-Miyaura coupling from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will offer MIDA synthons for sale. The technology enables the efficient construction of […]
Company Announcements GENEART AG extended its strategic collaboration with QIAGEN NV to include synthetic human genes optimized for use in insect or mammalian cells in addition to those designed for production in E.coli bacteria. GENEART AG established a subsidiary on the US West Coast in San Francisco, California. Invitrogen named Joe Beery as head of […]
Company Announcements Invitrogen and the International Regulome Consortium will codevelop tools for stem cell research. Promega will develop fluorescent ligands for its HaloTag fusion proteins to be used with Leica’s TCS stimulated emission depletion super-resolution microscope. Under an exclusive license with the University of Georgia Research Foundation, ArunA Biomedical will commercialize human mesenchymal cells derived […]
Company Announcements Cambridge Isotope Laboratories acquired the Spectra Stable Isotopes division of Spectra Gases, a subsidiary of Linde Gas, in July. Cambridge Isotope Laboratories agreed to distribute CellFree Sciences’ WEPRO Expression Kits and reagents for cell-free protein production for NMR and MS applications in North America and Europe. Anaspec licensed its HiLytePlus and HiLyte Fluor […]
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