Omaha, NB 7/2/14; Coralville, TA 7/2/14—Transgenomic has agreed to sell the rights to its SURVEYOR Nuclease technology and the assets to Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) for a minimum of $4.25 million, including an upfront payment of $3.65 million. Transgenomic will exclusively sublicense rights for SURVEYOR clinical and diagnostic applications from IDT. SURVEYOR Nuclease recognizes and […]
IVD relies on a number of technologies to test for certain conditions, diseases and infections. Molecular diagnostic (MDx) tests use genomic and proteomic technologies for such analyses. The February 2014 Strategic Directions International report, “The Coveted Molecular Diagnostics Market: From Clinical Research to Diagnosis and Personalized Medicine—Innovative Technologies Break Through,” covers the use of nucleic […]
Company Announcements Promethera Biosciences and EMD Millipore announced in March a collaboration to develop an improved ready-to-use, microfluidic perfusion liver assay. In Vitro ADMET Laboratories and Taconic signed an agreement to commercialize cryopreserved hepatocytes. NMI Technology Transfer will develop Chromobody-expressing cell types to create novel cell lines for distribution and comarketing by ChromoTek. ChromoTek’s Chromobodies […]
Biologic drugs continue to be one of the fastest-growing categories of the pharmaceutical market. US sales of biologics grew 9.7% annually from 2010 to 2012 to $65.5 billion, or 47% of the global market, according to EvaluatePharma. According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, 907 biologic medicines and vaccines are in development at […]
The market for high-throughput and multiplex immunoassay systems consists of a variety of proprietary technologies that miniaturize and automate ELISA-based assays. These systems have become important tools in research and bioprocessing applications. Over the past decade, their use has increased, particularly in the areas of biomarker discovery and development, pharmacokinetics, immunogenicity and bioprocessing. Nonetheless, there […]
Company Announcements CEM signed an exclusive licensing agreement in February with SpheriTech to manufacture and sell SpheriTide-based resins, with an initial focus on peptide synthesis. In March, PerkinElmer collaborated with China’s Fudan University Shanghai Medical College to open a 90 m2 joint small-animal in vivo–imaging demonstration lab. Gyros named Tekon Biotech as the exclusive distributor […]
Newtown, PA 6/6/14—GGA Software Services, a supplier of scientific-informatics services, has been acquired by EPAM Systems, a publicly held provider of product-development and software-engineering solutions, for cash and $10 million in stock. “Not only are we very excited about the significant growth opportunity in the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry verticals, we also see tremendous […]
The study of cells has been instrumental in understanding biological processes. Research on genes and proteins expressed in specific types of cells has typically been performed on samples containing many cells, with analysis reflecting the data averaged across them. But recent studies have indicated differences in cells of the same type or within the same […]
Company Announcements Douglas Scientific acquired in January the Smart-DART Platform for portable molecular diagnostics screening from DIAGENTIX. DIAGENTIX continues to have rights to develop and commercialize the platform. In February, Life Technologies assigned IntegenX the rights to distribute Life’s GlobalFiler Express chemistry on IntegenX’s RapidHIT platform. WaferGen announced in March it named Maithreyan Srinivasan, formerly […]
Biosensors have been used for many years to identify a wide array of analytes, but instrument size has long impeded their portability. However, over the past decade, many research groups have invested a great deal of resources into miniaturizing the technology. The resulting products have recently become available on the market, targeting applications such as […]
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