Company Announcements CEM formed a Japanese subsidiary with headquarters in Tokyo and an office in Osaka. The offices will begin operation this fall with approximately 10 employees. Bayer Technology Services named Dr. Joachim Heck as managing director of Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS GmbH in March. He was formerly unit manager and a member of the management […]
Rockville, MD 8/12/10—OriGene Technologies has acquired Blue Heron Biotechnology, a gene synthesis company. “We are 100% committed to serving our customers with high-quality, strict confidentiality standards and improved business efficiency,” commented OriGene Chairman and CEO Dr. Wei-Wu He. “This latest purchase is a further indication of OriGene’s determination to expand its gene-centric tools portfolio for […]
Waltham, MA 8/3/10—PerkinElmer has acquired VisEn Medical, an in vivo molecular-imaging technology company, for an undisclosed amount. VisEn’s Fluorescence Molecular Tomographic Imaging Systems and reagents provide quantitative molecular-imaging data for identifying and characterizing disease biomarkers and therapeutic efficacy in cells and animal models. “This acquisition broadens our product portfolio along the drug discovery pipeline, from […]
Peptide synthesizers work by treating amino acids with reagents to protect functional groups on the molecule where reactions are not desired. Suitably activated amino acids are then added with various reagents. After synthesis, the completed peptide is cleaved from the resin for purification. Peptide synthesizers come in manual, semi-automated and fully automated formats. Manual synthesizers, […]
Company Announcements IDBS entered into a strategic partnership with Soluzioni Informatiche for distribution of its E-Workbook Suite in Italy. TIBCO Software partnered with IDBS to integrate their respective Spotfire Analytics Platform and ActivityBase chemistry technology for exploring the extended effects of chemical structures on biological activity. Bio-IT World reported in April that Microsoft spun off […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) announced an exclusive collaboration to create the National High-Throughput Sequencing Center, the largest sequencing facility in Germany. The center will operate 10 SOLiD 4 hq systems. In June, Illumina announced a new price of $19,500 for its individual genome–sequencing service, and a price of […]
Cincinnati, OH 7/20/10—Life science company Meridian Bioscience has acquired all the outstanding capital stock of the Bioline group of companies for $23.3 million in cash. Headquartered in the UK, Bioline is a manufacturer and distributor of molecular biology reagents, including nucleotides and DNA polymerase enzymes. Bioline’s 2010 revenues are estimated to exceed $12 million. “Bioline […]
San Diego, CA 7/27/10—Ilumina has announced that it completed the purchase of Helixis on April 30 for $70 million in cash and up to $35 million in contingent consideration. Helixis is the developer of a high-performance, low-cost real-time PCR system. Illumina will begin selling the system, the Eco, in August for a list price of […]
Company Announcements Sigma-Aldrich announced a corporate partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Advanced Training Center. Sigma-Aldrich will exclusively distribute Highlands Stable Isotope’s set of stable isotope–labeled synthetic reagents through its ISOTEC product lines. International Stem Cell’s Lifeline Cell Technology subsidiary named Veritas as its Japanese distributor. TriLink BioTechnologies named Cedarlane as a distributor for […]
Company Announcements The Automation Partnership agreed to distribute AVISO GmbH’s CellCelector automated stem cell picker in the UK and Ireland. In a March SEC filing, Cyntellect said it raised $3 million from the sale of debt, equity and options or warrants. In May, Accuri Cytometers and eBioscience, a reagent provider, entered into a comarketing agreement. […]
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