Company Announcements Shrink Nanotechnologies gained an exclusive right to use and sublicense Corning’s modular “plug-and-play” microfluidic system for at least eight years. Caliper Life Sciences is collaborating with Sony DADC Austria AG to develop and manufacture plastic consumables for its next-generation microfluidics products using Sony’s Blu-ray Disc manufacturing technology. They have developed consumables for the […]
Millville, NJ 2/9/11—Wheaton Industries has acquired UK-based Laboratory Sales Limited (LSL), a manufacturer and distributor of tubular glass products and lab consumables. “This strategic investment further strengthens our position as a market leader of specialty packaging and related instruments for cell-based research, chemical compound, in vitro diagnostics and specialty pharmaceutical markets,” commented Wheaton Industries President […]
Radnor, PA 2/1/11—VWR International has acquired AMRESCO, a manufacturer and supplier of biochemicals and reagents for molecular biology, life sciences, proteomics, clinical and histology areas of research and production. Financial details were not disclosed. “This acquisition expands VWR’s product portfolio in the growing and critical life science arena,” stated VWR Chairman, President and CEO John […]
Company Announcements Following the acquisition of 95% of GENEART’s shares, Applied Biosystems GmbH agreed in November 2010 to pay €14.60 ($20.06) per share for minority shareholders’ shares (see IBO 4/30/10, 6/15/10). Contract research organization Domainex will collaborate with Sigma-Aldrich to use its Combinatorial Domain Hunting technology to produce soluble domains of a number of proteins […]
PerkinElmer’s EnSpire Multimode Plate Reader is the first benchtop detection platform to utilize a combination of optical label-free technology and labeled assays for the identification and characterization of potential new therapeutic targets. The EnSpire uses Corning’s Epic label-free technology, as well as absorbance, fluorescence intensity, luminescence and PerkinElmer’s Alpha technology. Achim von Leoprechting, vice president […]
Many technologies have made the transition from R&D labs to clinical labs, so it is not surprising that MS has as well. Starting in the 1970s with GC/MS, up to today and the use of LC-MS/MS, the adoption of MS by clinical labs has grown. For small molecules, LC-MS/MS’s high accuracy has made it an […]
Life science instrumentation is the largest technology sector in the analytical and life science instrumentation industry, accounting for over a quarter of the industry market. The market encompasses a broad spectrum of technologies that are grouped into 11 technology categories. These categories have market sizes that range from $70 million to more than $2.3 billion […]
Fluxion Bioscience’s BioFlux 1000Z system for live cell imaging was launched in December. The system simulates physiological environments while performing in vitro cell-based assays utilizing microfluidic channels to drive the flow across the cellular sample. Unlike the BioFlux 1000, which is used with a Nikon microscope, this model is built around the Zeiss AxioObserver microscopy […]
Company Announcements In November, CEM opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland, that provides direct sales for Ireland. Product Introductions Syrris introduced the Atlas Potassium Pressure System, a modular 3 b pressure reactor, which can be supplied with glass vessels ranging from 100 mL to 3 L. CEM launched the new UV Monitoring System for […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies signed an exclusive license agreement for Novici Biotech’s ErrASE, a DNA error–correction kit. Life Technologies plans to integrate the technology into its synthetic biology offerings and retains rights to sublicense it. Life Technologies signed a strategic licensing agreement in November for exclusive rights to produce and supply Biopredic International’s cryopreserved HepaRG […]
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