Company Announcements Under a license from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Akonni Biosystems plans to commercialize low-cost, multiplexed tests for research and IVD uses in bio-security applications. The tests are expected to be available in 2012. In February, GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services was the agent for and lender of $55 […]
Company Announcements Under a cooperation agreement, Mikroglas chemtech placed its mikroSyn microreactor platform on Flowid’s Application Laboratory platform. Product Introductions Chemtrix introduced the Labtrix Start system, a manual plug-and-play platform for lab-based optimization of reactions within glass microreactors for performing syntheses at -15–195 °C and under pressures up to 25 b. Asynt launched the DrySyn […]
Company Announcements Sequenom named William Welch senior vice president of Diagnostics in January. Most recently, he was senior vice president and COO at Monogram Biosciences. Tecan became the exclusive North American distributor of Attana’s biosensor instruments and assays. In January, Caliper Life Technologies partnered with Seegene to enable Seegene’s multiplex diagnostic assays to run on […]
Company Announcements Cellectis granted Harvard Apparatus, a Harvard Bioscience company, an exclusive license to manufacture and sell for research use the full line of electroporation-based instruments that it acquired from CytoPulse (see IBO 11/30/10). Cellectis will receive a $1.3 million payment. In February, InDevR announced the establishment of six distribution agreements for the ViroCyte 2100 […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker’s S8 Dragon wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (WD-XRF) system combines a conventional array of wavelength detectors dedicated for elements of particular interest with a multielement energy dispersive detector (the Bruker XFlash, more commonly used for energy dispersive spectrometry [EDS] microanalysis) to provide simultaneous measurement of the remaining elements. A complete run takes […]
Company Announcements Netherlands-based Hycult Biotechnology, a developer of antibodies and antibody-based products for innate immunity and directly related fields, opened a US subsidiary in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, in December 2010. Akonni Biosystems initiated an $8 million equity offering in December 2010, according to an SEC filing. Kreatech Diagnostic announced in January an additional license and […]
Company Announcements Biosearch Technologies licensed access to its BHQ, CAL Fluor and Quasar patents to DuPont Qualicon in October 2010 and is now manufacturing Scorpions primer oligonucleotides for DuPont. In November 2010, MDxHealth licensed its methylation-specific PCR (MSP) technology to Takara Bio for the scientific research market. QuantaLife closed $17.2 million in Series B financing […]
Company Announcements Affymetrix has contributed genotyping data for a large set of validated rare and common genetic variants to the 1000 Genomes Project. It has also released a larger data set of approximately five million variants on its website. In January, Affymetrix signed a distribution agreement with Fisher Scientific for its GeneAtlas System and related […]
Santa Clara, CA 2/28/11—Agilent has acquired Lab901, a provider of electrophoresis equipment and consumables, for an undisclosed amount. Lab901 develops and markets the TapeStation benchtop electrophoresis instrument and Screen Tape consumables and reagents. “With the addition of Lab901’s outstanding technology and talented team, Agilent can now address customer needs across the entire span of electrophoresis […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems integrated its IPA software with TransMed System’s XB Bio-Integration Suite, Geospiza’s Genesifter software for next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflows, and CLC bio’s software for array and NGS data analysis. Advanced Chemistry Development entered into a five-year research collaboration with the FDA to develop quantitative structure-activity relationship toxicity models for regulatory and research […]
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