Affymetrix and Partners Healthcare extended their translational research collaboration (see IBO 12/15/06) with a contract array manufacturing supply agreement. Affymetrix and IPSOGEN will collaborate to develop and market in vitro diagnostic tests. Empire Genomics, a molecular karyotyping platform technology company, licensed a number of Affymetrix’s patents covering the manufacturing, use and sales of microarrays and […]
Holliston, MA 10/11/07—Harvard Bioscience has acquired Panlab for $5.0 million in cash. Panlab manufactures and distributes life science instruments, primarily for the neuroscience research market. “With the acquisition of Panlab, we are able to expand our distribution channels by establishing a subsidiary in Spain. In addition, the acquisition provides us access into a segment of […]
Waltham, MA and Cambridge, MA 10/1/07—PerkinElmer has agreed to acquire publicly listed ViaCell for $7.25 per share, a 52% premium over the stock’s September 30 closing price, for an aggregated price of approximately $300 million, or $260 million net of cash. ViaCell specializes in the collection and preservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells and, […]
Protein Discovery named eight distributors for its PPS Silent Surfactant reagent product for MS membrane protein sample preparation: ProteoMass Australia (Australia and New Zealand), American Health and Medical Supply International (China), Professional Biotech (India), Precision Technologies (Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore), Labogen (Italy), AMR (Japan), Chubu Science (Japan) and GenDiscovery Biotechnology (Taiwan). In July, QIAGEN NV […]
Waltham, MA 10/3/07; New York, NY 10/3/07; 10/9/07—On October 3, the company announced the acquisition of Priority Solutions International from majority owner Arsenal Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. Priority Solutions International provides third-party logistics to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and had 2006 revenues of around $95 million. “This acquisition brings tremendous logistics expertise […]
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH acquired Clarient’s equipment business and related assets, consisting of the ACIS and Trestel Instruments Systems for clinical tissue-based cancer diagnostics, for $11 million in cash in March. Dako Denmark A/S will assist in marketing the systems. In July, Carl Zeiss SMT moved its North American headquarters from Thornwood, New York, to […]
DataApex appointed Gallery Science a Premium Partner, and thus a wholesaler to other distribution channels, for North America and the Caribbean Islands. In June, Eksigent named Bionoetikos as a distributor for its NanoLC HPLC product line in Southeast Asia. In July, Eksigent signed a distribution agreement for its NanoLC product line with Nova Analítica for […]
BTX Harvard Apparatus introduced the MicroPoration platform, consisting of a pulse generator, safety chamber and MicroPorator pipette, for nonviral transfection. Nova Biomedical launched the module BioProfile FLEX for cell culture analysis of 16 attributes. CellASIC launched the ONIX system for live cell imaging of yeast samples, featuring a microfluidic plate and flow control panel. Applied […]
London, UK 9/19/07; 9/26/07—Smiths has announced that it will not proceed with its planned joint venture for detection technologies with GE Homeland Protection (see IBO 1/15/07). The announcement stated that the companies “were unable to agree on a strategic vision for the combined business.” Smiths would have owned 64% of the new company with GE […]
Horiba Jobin Yvon gained exclusive distribution rights to GenOptic’s SPRi-Lab+ detector, and the companies are comarketing the SPRi-Plex system. GE Healthcare granted Applied Biosystems and NorDiag ASA licenses to its patents for the biomagnetic isolation of nucleic acids. FujiFilm Life Sciences entered the North American market earlier this year with an agreement to market and […]
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