Company Announcements Biotage AB expanded its outsourcing collaboration with PartnerTech, which will take over most instrument manufacturing. Running initially through 2011, the agreement is worth approximately SEK 40 million ($5 million) annually. Manufacturing will be relocated from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Åtvidaberg, Sweden. Syrris reported 80% growth in the first half of 2009. Syrris incorporated its […]
Company Announcements GeneGo and OmicSoft integrated their respective MetaCore pathway analysis platform and Array Studio. Accelrys’s fiscal 2009 revenues for the year ended March 31 rose 1.6% to $81.0 million. Operating loss decreased from $855,000 in the previous year to $319,000 (see IBO 6/15/09). US sales rose 0.5%, European sales fell 1.6% and Asia-Pacific sales […]
Many biologic drugs, such as antibodies and proteins, and vaccines are produced through the large-scale culturing of mammalian cells. From R&D through screening and production, bioprocess cell culturing must be carefully monitored and regulated to optimize growth conditions, control feeding and prevent contamination. To do so, genetic, physical and environmental parameters are continuously tested. Environmental […]
Company Announcements Stemgent coexclusively licensed Cell Design’s AdipoDesign Starter Kit and AdipoDesign MaxiKit. Gene synthesis firm Gene Oracle named Sigma-Aldrich its exclusive supplier of custom oligonucleotides, and the companies will comarket its GeneIOS system. StemCells acquired Stem Cell Sciences, a provider of media formulation and reagents, in April for 2,650,000 shares and $700,000 in cash. […]
Company Announcements Illumina and Agilent entered into a comarketing agreement in April for their respective Genome Analyzer and SureSelect Target Enrichment System. In March, Luminex settled litigation related to its Molecular Diagnostics business brought by The Research Foundation for the State University of New York and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, […]
Company Announcements Idaho Technology licensed its reagents or methods using SYBR Green I technology and melting curve analysis for real-time PCR to Thermo Fisher Scientific and Finnzymes Oy. Idaho Technology signed an agreement with Microbiology International for the exclusive distribution of its R.A.P.I.D. LT Food Security System in the US. Transgenomic completed a licensing option […]
GE Healthcare and Geron announced this week that they are partnering to offer human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived assays for drug development and screening toxicity (see page 2). HESC-derived cell-based assays promise to supplement in vivo animal and in vitro cell testing for drug development. Applications could include target identification and validation, screening of compound […]
Company Announcements In March, Real Time Genomics, a US subsidiary of NetValue, received a $3 million investment from Catamount Ventures. Real Time Genomics provides the SLIM Search sequence-comparison technology for genomic mapping and alignment functions that are tolerant of mismatches. Systat Software and Rescentris agreed to globally offer their joint product, the SigmaCERF electronic lab […]
Company Announcements Exiqon’s Research Product sales grew 43% in 2008. Exiqon expects the business to be cash flow positive by the end of 2009. Norgen Biotek signed an OEM manufacturing and supply agreement to supply Exiqon with RNA purification kits. Stemgent will market certain research reagents for inducible stem cell technology based on TET Systems’ […]
As more protein-based therapeutics and biologics enter the drug development pipeline, the demand for technologies for immunogenicity testing is expected to become increasingly important. When taking a drug, a patient may initially or over time develop antibodies that block or interfere with the drug’s efficacy. The response can also result in life-threatening conditions. In 2008, […]
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