Syrris opened an office in La Jolla, California. Biotage AB elected Axel Broms and Per-Olof Eriksson to its Board, replacing Jeff Bork and Björn Odlander. In May, Agilent and Integrated DNA Technologies agreed to harmonize their chemistry, processes and analytical techniques and to provide reciprocal referrals for synthetic oligonucleotides, creating a complete development pathway for […]
Spartacus Consulting introduced LabPortico ASP and Enterprise, online customer service tools for laboratories. Labtronics released Nexxis ILAB for the collection of information from lab informatics systems and instruments. Labtronics introduced LimsLink CDS 4.0. In May, Agilent released OL ECM Workgroup, an enterprise content management software package designed for smaller labs. Pricing begins at $21,000. Accelerated […]
IO Informatics appointed Robert Stanley, cofounder and CTO, president and CEO in April. VelQuest integrated its GMP Electronic Notebook System, designed for QA/QC applications, with Symyx Technologies’ electronic lab notebook applications, which are designed for R&D. Thermo Fisher Scientific granted Sage-N Research a sublicense to sell the SEQUEST search engine products. Agilent integrated EMC’s NetWorker […]
GenTel BioSciences announced in March that it acquired GlaxoSmithKline’s protein chip platform assets. Affymetrix launched the Collaborations in Cancer Research Program, an alliance with 30 European cancer researchers. Later this year, the Program will be expanded to North America and Japan. In April, Affymetrix and NuGEN Technologies announced a comarketing agreement for NuGEN’s WT-Ovation FFPE […]
Gamma Medica-Ideas, a provider of preclinical imaging instruments for in vivo small-animal imaging, was founded as Gamma Medica in 2000. In June 2005, Gamma Medica merged with the Norwegian company Ideas ASA, a manufacturer of solid-state digital detector electronics and imaging detector subsystems, to form Gamma Medica-Ideas (see IBO 10/15/05). Gamma Medica-Ideas has 85 employees. […]
febit launched a Geniom Biochip for all known microRNA sequences, available as a Ready-To-Go-Biochip or made on site by the company’s Geniom One instrument. In May, febit introduced the Geniom RT Analyzer for sample hybridization, automated processing and analysis for multiple applications, including multiplex amplification on a chip and dynamic detection. Geniom Biochips can be […]
Single-cell whole genome amplification (WGA) PCR is an application of PCR technology that amplifies the nucleic acid in a single cell rather than in a tissue sample or a pool of homogenous cells. While single-cell amplification has been recognized almost as long as PCR technology itself, it was not considered a very efficient technique due […]
Core Informatics integrated ChemAxon’s chemoinformatics capabilities within its Core LIMS. Ariadne announced that GeneWorks will distribute its products in Australia and New Zealand. Validation company VALcoa entered into separate partnerships with Thermo Informatics and Labtronics. Thermo Fisher Scientific partnered with Integrador de Soluciones Tecnológicas to open a sales center for informatics solutions in Columbia and […]
Bio-Rad Laboratories released KnowItAll Enterprise Server 3.0 and the KnowItAll AnyWare 1.0 browser-based client. Bio-Rad launched KnowItAll U for academic research and teaching. Sapio Sciences introduced Exemplar LIMS, addressing the complete pipeline from sample receipt in the lab through clinical trial management. Labtronics released Nexxis CLA (Instrument Calibration Manager) 4.0. Strand Life Sciences released Sarchitect, […]
Founded in 1999, today Fluidigm has over 100 employees and subsidiaries in Europe, Japan and Singapore. Last year, the company introduced its second product platform, the Biomark System for gene expression using quantitative real-time PCR. Based on integrated fluidic circuit technology, the Biomark System enables nanofluidic manipulation and mixing of reagents and samples in a […]
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