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 […]
Madison, WI 6/19/07—Roche has agreed to acquire microarray company NimbleGen Systems for $272.5 million. In 2006, NimbleGen posted revenues of $13.5 million and total losses of $8.3 million (see IBO 3/31/07). NimbleGen will join Roche’s Applied Science business, part of Roche Diagnostics, whose other research products include PCR instruments and reagents, and the recently acquired […]
SofTA added Disruptive Technologies as a distributor of its evaporative light scattering detectors for France, Belgium and Switzerland. SofTA named California, US-based Bay Scientific as a distributor in April. Eksigent Technologies’ NanoLC HPLC product line is now distributed in the Benelux region by Separations Analytical Instruments BV. Serlabo Technologies now exclusively distributes Eksigent’s NanoLC HPLC […]
Reinach, Switzerland 6/20/07—The Endress+Hauser Group, a provider of physical properties instrumentation, has announced its acquisition of PB Mesures. Financial details of the purchase were not disclosed. Based in Clermont-Ferrand, France, PB Mesures is a services company specializing in the calibration and repair of laboratory instruments and equipment, such as spectrophotometers and centrifuges. Urs Endress, director […]
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 […]
PANalytical became the exclusive representative of OBLF GmbH’s optical atomic emission spectrometers in North America. PANalytical acquired the rights to the Wilis & Duncan course on advanced X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI), Shimadzu’s US subsidiary, assumed control of the sales, service and support for Shimadzu subsidiary Kratos Analytical’s X-ray spectrometer business in […]
Recent acquisitions have highlighted the evolving relationship of instrument companies and the molecular diagnostics market. Last month, QIAGEN acquired Digene, the largest provider of human papillomavirus (HPV) diagnostics tests, for $1.6 billion (see IBO 6/15/07). Earlier this year, Agilent acquired Stratagene for $246.2 million (see IBO 4/15/07). These developments follow acquisitions last year by Luminex […]
West Chester, PA 6/20/07—VWR International has agreed to acquire Bie & Berntsen A-S, a Denmark-based distributor of laboratory supplies. Financial details were unavailable. Founded in 1992, the family-owned Bie & Berntsen A-S has annual revenues of around $27 million and employs 90 people. Managing Director Søren Kirkegaard will join VWR. “VWR’s expertise in chemicals, consumables […]
Santa Clara, CA 6/18/07—Agilent Technologies’ Life Science and Analytical Instruments Group has acquired the Kalabie electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) product line from Klee Group. Financial details were not disclosed. All employees of Kalabie have joined Agilent and will remain based in Paris and Montpellier, France. Agilent plans to integrate the Kalabie ELN with its OpenLAB […]
Zurich, Switzerland and Syracuse, NY 5/31/07—-INFICON has acquired Maxtek, a provider of instruments and software for thin film deposition and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measurements. Terms were not disclosed. “Maxtek’s strong reputation and its products complement INFICON instruments, enabling us to provide a more complete product range for thin film coating processes which are vital […]
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