Digital PCR (dPCR) extends traditional PCR into the realm of real-time quantitative PCR. It is a method used to directly quantify and clonally amplify nucleic acids. It is an accurate and sensitive technique that counts individual nucleic acid molecules for applications such as detection of rare mutations and quantifying viral load, gDNA, cDNA, plasmids or […]
Fluorotechnics suspended trading of its shares on the Australian Stock Exchange on October 1. Fluorotechnics announced in October that it sold Gel Company for $150,000 in cash. OpGen completed a $17 million Series B equity financing in September, led by jVen Capital. In October, NanoString Technologies appointed Barney Saunders, PhD, chief commercial officer. He previously […]
Company Announcements Rapidus news service reported in September that Ludesi AB, the provider of Redfin software for two-dimensional gel image analysis, went bankrupt. The largest shareholder was Innovation Capital. Integromics appointed Dr. Michael J. McManus as president and CEO in September. Previously, he led GenomeQuest’s corporate marketing, strategic alliances, product marketing and product development efforts. […]
Company Announcements Cisbio US agreed to distribute Multispan’s portfolio of cell lines in the US. Cisbio Bioassays announced in September that Promega’s HaloTag technology is available for use on its Tag-Lite platform. In October, Cisbio Bioassays partnered with Blue Sky BioProducts, the provider of TDA 2.0, a stable solution of lipid-based nanoparticles with nickel-chelating moieties. […]
Company Announcements Tecan and Miltenyi Biotech are developing a range of automated solutions for cell biology based on their respective Freedom EVO liquid handling platform and MACS magnetic bead technology. Accuri Cytometers in August named BioTech as its exclusive distributor for the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary. In October, Accuri Cytometers named GrupoBios as […]
Sales of biosimilars, or follow-on biologics, could reach $10 billion by 2015, according to The Economist. US healthcare reform legislation signed into law earlier this year created an abbreviated FDA approval pathway for biosimilars. This month, the FDA held a two-day hearing about how to implement this pathway. Also this month, the European Medicine Agency […]
Company Announcements LabVantage opened an office in Monza, Italy, in July. IDBS reported first-half revenues grew 20% to £20.3 million ($31.0 million), as software sales increased 44%, maintenance revenue rose 13% and professional services revenue grew 25%. In 2009, revenues rose 12% to £36.4 million ($56.9 million). IDBS formed a Healthcare business unit. Under a […]
Company Announcements Biosearch Technologies entered into a new licensing agreement in August, extending QIAGEN’s existing rights to Scorpions primer assays to include the right to manufacture, catalog and sell them into the research, applied and infectious disease–testing markets. QIAGEN also gained rights to market labeled probes based on Biosearch’s Black Hole Quencher dyes for qPCR […]
Company Announcements Earlier this year, Pacific Biosciences launched a software developer’s network, PacBio DevNet. Life Technologies and SG Biofuels, a bioenergy crop company, announced the complete sequencing of the Jatropha curcas genome to 100x coverage using the SOLiD 4.0 system. GnuBIO obtained an exclusive license from Harvard University for the use of microfluidics and emulsion-based […]
Company Announcements Roche NimbleGen named Macrogen as a Certified Service Provider for Korea for CGH/copy number variation (CNV) services. Microarrays Inc. was sold by Vanderbilt University in July to its management team and independent investors. Affymetrix will develop and commercialize the Axiom Chinese myDesign Genotyping Array for genome-wide association studies specifically on Chinese populations. In […]
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