Under a comarketing alliance, CambridgeSoft will market Off-Label.com’s content via its Database Gateway. Phase Forward established a subsidiary within the facilities of its Indian partner, Virtusa, in Hyderabad, India, in November 2007. The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, the University of Geneva’s Proteome Informatics Group and Microsoft Research launched a two-year collaborative project to use MS […]
Wetzlar, Germany; Liechtenstein; Vienna, Austria 2/21/08—Leica Microsystems, a Danaher company, has acquired Bal-Tec AG, a provider of sample preparation equipment for scanning electron microscopy (EM). Leica will manage the new business from its Ultramicrotomy facility in Vienna, Austria. “Leica Microsystems was already a leader in key segments of the EM sample preparation market and now, […]
Grant Instruments is manufacturing the OVG-4 vapor generator for Owlstone Nanotech. Twenty-two units have been sold as of October 2007. In December 2007, Binder GmbH announced the establishment of an independent subsidiary in Asia, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with eight employees. Binder aims to grow its Asian business to 35% of sales by 2013. […]
Arthur Holden, Illumina Senior Vice President of Corporate and Market Development, resigned from the company in fall 2007. Rosetta Biosoftware’s Syllego System achieved Affymetrix GeneChip-compatibility status. Eppendorf Biochip Systems GmbH certified Girus Life Sciences as a service provider. Oxford Gene Technology granted a license to Phalanx Biotech to fabricate and sell arrays in the US. […]
Affymetrix awarded premier application status to Beckman Coulter’s ArrayPlex application for automated target RNA preparation on the Biomek 3000. Platicell entered into an agreement with Hamilton to automate its Combinatorial Cell Culture technology for determining optimal protocols to direct stem cell differentiation. Tecan AG and pION launched the PAMPA (Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay) Explorer […]
Following two weeks of speculation and a bidding process involving at least four companies, on February 4, GE Healthcare announced that it would acquire Whatman for $713 million in cash (see page 2, IBO 1/15/08). The 268-year-old company with forecasted 2007 revenues of £116 million ($232 million), Whatman is a name long associated with laboratory […]
Carlsbad, CA 2/15/08—Invitrogen has acquired a minority equity share in Q Therapeutics, a company developing cell therapeutic indications for the central nervous system (CNS) by purifying, culturing and growing populations of differentiated CNS cells for injection into patients.
Caluire, France and Pensauken, NJ 2/1/08—Setaram, a provider of thermal analysis and calorimetry systems, has acquired Hy-Energy, a manufacturer of gas sorption instruments for clean energy applications. “The integration of Hy-Energy with Setaram further strengthens Setaram Instruments’ North American operations and provides us with a physical presence on the West Coast, closer to many of […]
Paoli, PA 2/11/08—AMETEK has purchased Newage Testing Instruments, a manufacturer of hardness testing equipment. Newage will join AMETEK’s Measurement and Calibration Technologies division. AMETEK Chairman and CEO Frank S. Hermance stated that Newage’s “hardness testing equipment and technology complements our Lloyd Instruments universal materials testing machines and broadens the range of materials testing solutions we […]
Biomotif AB entered into an agreement to distribute Analytica of Branford’s MS systems. Caprotec Bioanalytics GmbH, a developer of Capture Compound MS technology for targeted isolation of protein or protein classes, received €6 million ($8.8 million) in January in two rounds of financing. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the integration of Matrix Science’s Mascot search engine […]
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