Conshohocken, PA 11/22/13; London, UK 11/22/13—Instem, a publicly held supplier of IT solutions to the early development health care market, has acquired Perceptive Instruments for £1.0 million ($1.6 million = £0.62 = $1). Perceptive develops, manufactures and supplies image analysis and data processing solutions primarily focused on toxicology, microbiology and immunology. The UK-based firm had […]
Waltham, MA 11/26/13; Brussels, Belgium 11/26/13—The European Commission (EC) has cleared the merger of Thermo Fisher Scientific and Life Technologies (see IBO 4/15/13) with conditions. The EC found that the merger risked reduced competition in the European Economic Area with respect to the production and supply of media and sera for cell culture, gene silencing […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies announced in July an agreement to distribute CEERAM’s (the European Centre for Expertise and Research on Microbial Agents) RT-qPCR assays for the detection of Norovirus GI and Norovirus GII, Hepatitis A and the Mengovirus Extraction Control Kit. Under a joint development agreement announced in July, Rheonix will supply its technology to […]
Company Announcements Miltenyi Biotec opened an office in South Korea in June, enlarging its presence to six locations in five countries. IntelliCyt opened an office in Los Altos, California, in July. Bulldog Bio is now a North American distributor of Fluxion Biosciences’ products. In August, ViroCyt named Biotech Europe a distributor for the Commonwealth of […]
Molecular cytogenetic technologies have become vitally important in the analysis of chromosomes for both diagnostics and research applications. Technologies such as fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and microarrays are replacing traditional karyotyping. FISH uses fluorescent probes that bind to the complementary DNA sequence on a chromosome. The samples are typically placed on a glass slide, […]
Company Announcements Michael E. Falk resigned for personal reasons from Cellular Dynamics International’s Board in August. In August, JSR became a minority owner in SCIVAX Life Sciences and will develop and expand SCIVEX’s 3D cell culture business and distribute products. AMSBIO agreed to distribute Sanguine BioSciences’ biospecimen collection products in Europe. ATCC announced in August […]
Company Announcements In August, the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine and CombiMatrix entered into a collaboration agreement to market chromosomal microarray analysis testing for prenatal testing. In August, NanoString Technologies announced net proceeds of $47 million from its IPO (see IBO 6/30/13). NanoString Technologies’ Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay received FDA 510(k) clearance […]
Bruker has announced the world’s first Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) scanner. The scanner is intended to be a new complementary technology for preclinical imaging of small animals. It is codeveloped and comarketed with Royal Philips, manufactured by Bruker and will ship this year. The key enabling technology of MPI is a tracer that produces a […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies granted Suzhou Ribo Life Sciences exclusive rights to develop and manufacture siRNA therapeutics in China using its Invivofectamine Rx delivery technology. In July, Life Technologies announced a long-term supply and exclusive licensing agreement with Novartis for immunotherapeutics involving T cells modified to express chimeric antigen receptors for the treatment of cancer. […]
Company Announcements Advanced Cell Diagnostics and PerkinElmer entered into a comarketing agreement for their respective RNAscope multiplexed fluorescence assays and multispectral imaging technologies. Affymetrix promoted Gavin Wood to executive vice president and CFO in May. Most recently, he served as vice president, Finance, International Controller. PathoGenetix and Applied Maths agreed in June to integrate their […]
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