GE Healthcare will exclusively distribute under the ULTA brand a new range of microfiltration cartridges and disposable filters from Parker domnick hunter for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The companies also entered into a joint technology development agreement. As part of an R&D collaboration, Invitrogen will contribute its PD Direct media and cell line development expertise and Viropro […]
Nanotechnology has been a familiar buzzword for a number of years, but the field itself has yet to meet its impressive potential. While there is no shortage of companies involved in nanotechnology, Nanosys, based in Palo Alto, California, has attracted considerable attention since its founding in 2001. In March, Nanosys partnered with Bruker Daltonics for […]
San Francisco, CA 5/1/07—TIBCO Software, a provider of enterprise software, has agreed to acquire Spotfire for $195 million in cash. Spotfire specializes in data visualization analytics software. Its DecisonSite software, which features specific products for functional genomics, microarray analysis and lead discovery, is widely used by life science researchers. TIBCO will retain the Spotfire name […]
LUM GmbH named Twinson International as a Chinese distributor and Lih-Yuan Enterprise as a Taiwanese distributor. Asia accounts for more than 30% of the company’s sales. Under an OEM agreement, Micro Imaging Technology will supply its tabletop rapid microbial identification system as an option for JMAR’s BioSentry Water Monitoring System. Particle size analyzer company NanoSight […]
Tempe, AZ 5/1/07—GE Healthcare has sold its prearrayed Codelink microarray product line to Applied Microarrays, according to its website. Based at Arizona State University, Applied Microarrays also offers contract manufacturing of custom arrays. GE Healthcare continues to provide activated slides and related reagents for microarrays.
Idaho Technology exclusively licensed from the University of Utah Research Foundation the patent for “Monitoring Amplification with FRET Probes,” covering real-time PCR amplification kits. In February, QIAGEN NV broadened its portfolio of licenses to include all of Roche’s real-time PCR patents. The company also licensed patents related to Ortho Clinical Diagnostics’ “Hot-Start” technology. Sales for […]
Carlsbad, CA 5/1/07; Albuquerque, NM 5/2/07—CVI announced that it has signed an agreement with Barloworld Scientific to acquire Melles Griot. While terms of the deal were not revealed, Barloworld said that CVI will pay “a small premium over tangible net asset value” for Melles Griot. After the acquisition, which is expected to close within a […]
Carlsbad, CA 5/1/07—Invitrogen announced in its first quarter conference call that it has purchased Cascade Biologics. The company, based in Portland, Oregon, produces primary human cell culture systems and reagents for use in basic research, cosmetics testing and cell therapy. According to Gregory Lucier, CEO and chairman of Invitrogen, the acquisition “sets us up for […]
Biotools B&M Labs SA released CapitalBio’s microarray platform to the Spanish market and provided CapitalBio with its LIONPROBES real-time amplification technology, the Gelification stabilization platform and recombinant enzymes for kits and reagents for the Chinese market. Oxford Gene Technology and Integrated Genomics partnered to develop and market a Pichia pastoris gene expression oligonucleotide microarray. In […]
In February, biosensor developer NanoSensors signed a letter of intent to acquire the assets of DKL International, a provider of passive detection technology. SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems contracted with ilochip A/S to develop a lab-on-a-chip system for detecting and identifying airborne biological pathogens. The $125.6 million jury verdict against L-3 Communications, resulting from its […]
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