Company Announcements RUCDR Infinite Biologics was named a RainDance Center of Excellence in June. Thermo Fisher Scientific in July signed an exclusive agreement with NewLab Engineering, a subsidiary of COPAN Italia, to distribute Card Processing Automation technology for preparing DNA samples for human identification in forensic, paternity and research labs. Under an OEM agreement with […]
PerkinElmer has launched the AlphaPlex reagent technology for multiplex immunoassay analysis. AlphaPlex is based on the company’s Alpha (amplified luminescence proximity homogenous assays) technology, a homogeneous, bead-based, no-wash assay platform. Alpha Technology offerings also include the AlphaLISA and AlphaScreen reagents. Based on the transfer of energy between Donor and Acceptor beads, AlphaPlex can generate multiple […]
Company Announcements In May, Agilent Technologies agreed to distribute Cartagenia’s cloud-based software for CNV analysis, which allows Agilent to sell usage-priced annual licenses to the Bench Lab CNV module to small- and medium-sized cytogenetics labs. In June, PerkinElmer agreed to exclusively commercialize and sell PET-x-ray and 3-D CT imaging systems developed by, or in conjunction […]
Company Announcements For the first six months, sales for Mettler-Toledo‘s Laboratory business grew 6% excluding currency to roughly $533 million to account for 46% of revenues. First and second quarter Laboratory sales advanced 7% and 6% excluding currency, respectively. Sales growth was driven by increased demand and favorable pricing for analytical instruments and laboratory balances. […]
An unfortunate consequence of the recent explosion in next-generation sequencing (NGS) activity is the huge amount of generated data that are unused or not used to their full potential. Analysis of sequence data can take orders of magnitude more time than producing it and, as a result, is unable to keep pace. The existence of […]
Company Announcements Avacta announced in May a collaboration with UbiQ Bio to develop ubiquitin-specific antibodies. In June, Cambridge Research Biochemicals announced an exclusive supply-and-marketing agreement for its BIONET brand peptides with Key Organics. Cellectis granted Thermo Fisher Scientific a license to its TAL nucleases, currently marketed by Thermo under the brand name TALEN, outside the […]
Each August, IBO selects the winners of the IBO Design Awards, recognizing the industrial design of analytical instruments, laboratory equipment (page 6) and portable instruments (page 7) that are notable for their enhancement of the user experience. The accomplishments are aesthetic in terms of the product’s visual appeal and novelty, yet the industrial design also […]
Company Announcements In April, IDBS integrated its ELN for life sciences with Neural ID’s Intelligent Waveform Solution for automated biosignal recognition and analysis. IDBS partnered with Rancho Biosciences in April, enabling the companies to provide mutual customers with manual data-curation services for IDBS’s E-WorkBook products in the translational and clinical-research arenas. Ayasdi announced in April […]
Company Announcements Clontech Laboratories, a subsidiary of Takara Bio, partnered with Vectalys in May to combine its Living Colors fluorescent protein and Tet-On 3G technologies with Vectalys’s expertise in providing ready-to-use lentiviral particles as vectors for gene delivery. The initial product offering will include somatic-cell–reprogramming kits used to generate iPSCs. Horizon Discovery entered into a […]
Company Announcements Ibidi announced in March a collaboration with SiMPore to develop live-cell imaging tools combining their respective Cell Biochips and G-Flat Microporous Glass Membranes to create bio-slides. Sysmex entered into a clinical-research, licensing and joint-development agreement with Merck Millipore to use Millipore’s imaging flow cytometry technology for the creation of diagnostic tools for hematologic […]
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