In May, Affymetrix opened a manufacturing facility in Singapore. ChannelNewsAsia reports that the facility will manufacture 30% of the company’s products and has a staff of 124. Affymetrix appointed John C. Batty CFO and executive vice president in June. He previously served as senior vice president of finance and CFO of Credence Systems. In July, […]

In March, Enzo Biochem announced that the US Board of Patents and Interferences entered judgment in its favor for its patent application for nucleic acid signal amplification over two Princeton University patents. The Chido Companies, owner of Clean Air Labs, established a strategic partnership with Roche Diagnostics to set a DNA-based standard for mold detection […]

In the second quarter of 2007, revenues for IBO’s Laboratory Sales Index grew a robust 13.8% to $4,083 million. Operating profit jumped 29.3% to $631 million, and operating margin climbed 190 basis points to 15.5% of sales. Strong organic and acquisition-related growth from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bruker BioSciences, PerkinElmer and Agilent helped boost revenues and […]

Carestream Health, consisting of Kodak’s former Health Group business (see IBO 1/15/07), officially began operating as an independent company in May. 454 Life Sciences and the Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre are collaborating on the characterization of tropical organisms and diseases. Axela Biosensors entered into a licensing and supply agreement for BioCheck’s reagents for use as […]

PREMIER Biosoft International released Beacon Designer 7.0 for designing real-time PCR assays. Q Chip launched the ReaX Mastermix Lab-in-a-Bead gel-based bead and the ReaX Custom Bead Service. Spartan Bioscience launched the Spartan Dx real-time PCR DNA analyzer priced at $14,995. VWR International introduced Gene Technologies’ G-Storm thermal cyclers, consisting of three models.

Under a collaboration and licensing agreement with Dr. Gerry Shaw of the University of Florida and EnCor Biotechnology, Millipore is developing a neurofilament ELISA kit to measure the biomarker pNF-H. Millipore named Charles Wagner, vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development, CFO, effective August 15. Meridian Bioscience restructured and expanded its Meridian Life Science subsidiary […]

Millipore and CXR Biosciences introduced new antibodies for preclinical drug development in March. Corning Life Sciences released two 96-well microplates and two 100 mm tissue-culture dishes, featuring the Ultra-Web synthetic surface technology (see IBO 6/15/06). Promega introduced GloResponse Luciferase Reporter Cell Lines for cell signaling analysis. Sigma-Aldrich launched the AQUA (Absolute Quantitation) Peptide Partnership Program, […]