Norwalk, CT 2/29/08—Applera has announced its Celera subsidiary, one of the company’s two tracking stocks, along with Applied Biosystems, will pursue a possible spin-off from Applera to become a separately traded public firm (see IBO 8/15/07). Celera provides diagnostic products and services. Holders of the Celera tracking stock would receive Celera shares in a one-for-one […]
Dendritics SAS appointed Imgenex the exclusive distributor of its monoclonal cell research antibodies in North America and India. Cell Signaling Technologies is offering a noncommercial, royalty-free license to its PhosphoScan Profiling technology and information from its PhosphoSite knowledgebase to academic and nonprofit institutions. Exiqon A/S granted Applied Biosystems a license to its Locked Nucleic Acids […]
Promega released the HaloCHIP System, an antibody-free alternative to chromatin immunoprecipitation. Varian introduced TOP-DNA and TOP-RNA for the purification of synthetic oligonucleotides. Sigma-Aldrich launched the mirPremier miRNA Isolation Kit for purification of miRNA within 30 minutes. Biosynth AG launched the fluorescence-based BCM MRSA ELF culture medium for detection of methicillin-resistant MRA in hospital and medical […]
The life science instrumentation market grew 8.7% to $9.2 billion in 2007. The market consists of DNA and peptide sequencers, DNA and peptide synthesizers, nucleic acid amplification or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) systems, gel electrophoresis equipment, molecular biology purification kits, microarray-based products, biosensors, bioinformatics and cheminformatics, cell analysis technologies and in vivo animal imaging. The […]
Santa Clara CA 12/18/07—Affymetrix has agreed to acquire USB, a manufacturer of molecular biology and biochemical reagents, for approximately $75 million in cash. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USB offers three major product lines: molecular biology enzymes and kits, biochemical reagents and products for membrane protein research. “The integration of USB’s biochemical reagents with Affymetrix’s current […]
Sigma-Aldrich released the Proteomics Dynamic Range Standard UPS2. Sigma-Aldrich launched the N-TER Nanoparticle siRNA Transfection Systems for the delivery of siRNA into cell types that are difficult to transfect with lipid-based reagents. PerkinElmer released the Phos-tag Gold colorimetric assay for phosphoproteins in solution and the Phos-tag Enrich assay for phosphoproteins and phosphopeptides in biological samples. […]
Invitek Biotechnology and Biodesign GmbH, in cooperation with the Chinese company Allrun Nano Science & Technology, will adapt and extend its products for manual and automated magnetic extraction of nucleic acids. Invitrogen licensed Natural Section’s mRNA sequences for commercialization. Bio&Sel will sell and distribute nexttec GmbH’s one-step DNA isolation kits in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. […]
Waters released the MassTrak Immunosuppressant Kit, designed to quantify the immunosuppressant tacrolimus in kidney and liver transplant patients by LC/MS/MS. Platypus Technologies launched the Oris Cell Migration Assay. MBL International released the CoralHue Fluo-chase kit for visualization of protein-protein interactions. Sigma-Aldrich introduced the LentiExpress shRNA-based system for RNAi screening in an Optimization Plate format consisting […]
Lonza’s Bioscience division, consisting of its Cell Therapy, Rapid Testing Systems, Media, and Cell Discovery and Molecular Biology businesses, reported CHF 82 million ($66.9 million) in sales and EBIT of CHF 12 million ($9.8 million) for the first half of 2007. Media, and Cell Discovery and Molecular Biology sales were lower than expected. CellSystems Biotechnologies […]
Protein Discovery named eight distributors for its PPS Silent Surfactant reagent product for MS membrane protein sample preparation: ProteoMass Australia (Australia and New Zealand), American Health and Medical Supply International (China), Professional Biotech (India), Precision Technologies (Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore), Labogen (Italy), AMR (Japan), Chubu Science (Japan) and GenDiscovery Biotechnology (Taiwan). In July, QIAGEN NV […]
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