Company Announcements Affymetrix extended its Collaborations in Cancer Research Program to North America, forming alliances with 15 cancer researchers. Affymetrix named AltheaDx as an authorized service provider. Thermo Fisher Scientific collaborated with protein microarray firm Gentel Biosciences to shift microarrays to a new 96-well configuration and ELISA-like format. Thermo sells the product under the SmartPlex […]
Company Announcements In May, Invitrogen licensed human embryonic stem cell (hESC) patents from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for the development of research tools, giving it the right to work with karyotypically normal hESCs. Agilent acquired a license in May from the Broad Institute to commercialize a method for genome partitioning using Agilent’s Oligo Library […]
Company Announcements Precision System Science, reagent company Diagenode SA and Nippon Gene announced plans to develop an automated epigenetic system. Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD, and Steven St. Peter, MD, resigned from Helicos Biosciences’ Board in May. Helicos BioSciences named Stephen P. Hall senior vice president and CFO in May. He was formerly CFO of TriPath […]
Company Announcements Takara Biotech opened a manufacturing facility for Clontech products in Dalian, China, earlier this year. LGC Standards will commercialize Abcellute’s hepatocyte preservation technology. Lentigen exclusively licensed fundamental lentiviral vector technology from the University of Cambridge. Invitrogen named Germany-based imaGenes as its European distributor for Gateway full ORF clones. Invitrogen was named the exclusive […]
Company Announcements Poland’s Selvita Life Sciences Solutions was named an authorized partner of Starlims Technologies. In May, Starlims Technologies acquired Laboratory Expertise Center and launched a unit to provide strategic informatics consulting services to its customers. CambridgeSoft formed an alliance with Stewart Computational Chemistry in April to ensure compatibility between their respective MOPAC2007 semiempirical quantum […]
Company Announcements WaferGen Biosystems signed exclusive distribution agreements for its SmartSlide Micro-Incubation System with INBIO for Australia, ScienceWerke for Singapore and with Westburg for the Benelux Systems. BioNanomatrix, a developer of whole genome imaging and analysis technology, raised $5.1 million in Series A funding in March. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, formerly Oxford NanoLabs, secured investments of […]
Company Announcements New Zealand–based ZyGEM, a provider of enzyme-based reagents, opened its US headquarters in Solana Beach, California, in January. Invitrogen was named the exclusive provider of fluorescent miRNA microarray labeling kits using Genispheres’ 3DNA dendrimer signal amplification technology. Sigma-Aldrich and MorphoSys AG will design, produce and distribute unique recombinant antibodies. In February, Exiqon A/S […]
Madison, WI 5/30/08—Molecular diagnostics company Third Wave Technologies has agreed to acquire Stratagene’s Full Velocity patents and patent applications from Agilent Technologies. The Full Velocity patents cover quantitative PCR and quantitative real-time PCR chemistries. “Third Wave’s strategic acquisition of the Full Velocity patents cements an integral part of our clinical menu expansion plans and provides […]
Company Announcements Febit partnered with Prognosys Biosciences to offer a new Genome-to-Array Service. Febit appointed Michelle Lyles, PhD, to the new position of vice president, Marketing and Sales, in March. Previously, she was director of Sales at Sigma-Aldrich’s Research Biotechnology Business Unit. Transgenomic appointed David P. Pauluzzi, a consultant at Water Street Healthcare Partners, to […]
Company Announcements Crosslinks BV joined InforSense’s Open Partner Network. LabWare’s 2007 revenues increased over 14% to $70 million and the company signed over 75 new customers. CAMO Software AS opened an Australian office in Sydney in March. Symyx Technologies joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance. Agilent will distribute an embedded version of Accelrys’ SciTegic Pipeline Pilot […]
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