Company Announcements Monsanto is developing field tests for biotech crops using TwistDx’s Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) technology. BioTrove announced a collaboration with the FDA to investigate the use of its OpenArray Standardized NanoArray PCR (SNAP) gene expression profiling system for detection of pathogens in the US’s blood supply. In September, QIAGEN acquired additional licenses from […]
Company Announcements DNR Bio-Imaging Systems named Berthold Technologies a distributor. Innovative Biosensors entered into a manufacturing and development agreement with Thermo Fisher Air Quality Instruments for its BioFlash Biological Aerosol Collection, Detection and Identification System. Thermo will also have a sales, marketing and distribution license under the Thermo Scientific brand in certain markets. In August, […]
Company Announcements Microsoft announced that it is no longer selling Rosetta Biosoftware’s Rosetta Resolver, Syllego and Elucidator software (see IBO 6/15/09). These products’ capabilities will be integrated into its Amalga Life Sciences platform. Microsoft named Les Jordan, technology strategist for the Life Sciences Industry Unit, director of the BioIT Alliance in June. The formation of […]
Company Announcements Nano-photonics firm Moxtek and Philips Research are collaborating to develop a wire-grid glass microarray chip for improved accuracy that would not require a washing step and would perform hybridization and detection in parallel. Under an OEM agreement, InforSense is providing data analysis and visualization functionality for febit’s Geniom flexible microarray platform. Susan D. […]
Company Announcements ZyGEM signed exclusive distribution agreements with Shanghai Sangon Biological Engineering Technology & Services for China and SolGent for South Korea. The company also agreed to codistribute products from Integrated DNA Technologies, Quanta Biosciences, Biometrica and Porvair Services in New Zealand and certain parts of Australia. Rubicon Genomics incorporated ZyGEM’s enzymatic nucleic acid extraction […]
Flow cytometry companies have been making news lately, with new products, agreements and an acquisition. Advances in lasers, detectors and reagents have allowed for more complex and sensitive analysis. Applications of flow cytometry include apoptosis, cell-cycle phosphorylation status, surface markers, protein expression and DNA-content determination. In 2009, the market for research flow cytometers is valued […]
The development of optical tweezers dates back to the 1970s when a Bell Laboratory scientist, Arthur Ashkin, first discovered the effect of gradient forces and optical light scattering on a particle. Shortly thereafter, Drs. Ashkin and JM Dziedzic were successfully able to lift a particle in air by creating a single-beam trap. However, it was […]
Company Announcements Frank Witney, president and CEO of Dionex, resigned from Transgenomic’s Board in May. Proteome Sciences licensed Axela’s dotLab System to develop assays to measure its brain damage biomarkers. Axela obtained an option to license the assays for research and diagnostic use. In June, Luminex established an office in Shanghai, China. Luminex named Michael […]
Company Announcements Novus Biologicals opened its first international office in Cambridge, UK, this spring. Between 15% and 20% of the company’s business is generated in Europe. In May, Jerini AG agreed to sell JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH to TheraCode GmbH, a subsidiary of BioNTech AG, for €5 million ($7 million) in cash. Under a May […]
Company Announcements PerkinElmer and Accelrys integrated their respective Columbus image data management system for high-content screening (HCS) and Pipeline Pilot data analysis and reporting platform. GE Healthcare agreed in April to commercialize Cytori Therapeutics’ StemSource technology in the North American stem cell banking and research markets. The technology includes automated equipment to process stem and […]
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