Washington, DC 4/6/15; Morgantown, VA 4/7/15; Bundorra, Canada 4/7/15—Protea Biosciences, a supplier of bioanalytical solutions, has agreed to acquire vivoPharm for $11.1 million in cash and stock. vivoPharm provides pharmacology, toxicology and bioanalytical research services, including oncology models. “vivoPharm has developed a large standard-of-care reference database. We believe that this critical asset, together with Protea’s […]
Aliso Viejo, CA 4/1/15—Ambry Genetics, a clinical genetics testing lab, has acquired Progeny Software, a provider of genotype management and analysis software, and LIMS systems, for an undisclosed amount. “We were starting to build tools like this internally, but then I met Michael Brammer and within 24 hours we had an agreement. I realized how […]
Port Washington, NY 3/31/15—Pall, a provider of filtration, separation and purification products for industrial and life science markets, has announced the acquisition of Tarpon Biosystems’ BioSMB (simulated moving bed) technology for an undisclosed amount. BioSMB technology is designed for single-use, multicolumn chromatography from process development through large-scale production. “It extends our process intensification and continuous […]
London, UK 4/15/15—LGC, a life science–measurement and –testing company, has agreed to acquire Biosearch Technologies, a designer, developer and manufacturer of custom oligonucleotides and associated reagents for medical diagnostic, research and applied markets. The financial amount was not disclosed. Biosearch has 170 employees in the US and Europe. “Both LGC and Biosearch have a complementary […]
Andover, MA 3/18/15—MKS Instruments, a provider of instruments, subsystems and process-control solutions, has acquired Precisive for $13 million in cash. Precisive develops optical analyzers based on Tunable Filter Spectroscopy (TFS) for real-time gas analysis in the natural gas and hydrocarbon-processing industries. Precisive has over 2,500 systems deployed. “We have previously said we are looking for […]
St. Louis, MO 3/19/15; Pleasanton, CA 3/19/15—Sigma-Aldrich and Roche have signed an exclusive global distribution agreement under which Sigma-Aldrich will distribute Roche’s Biochemical Reagents product portfolio. Roche’s Biochemical Reagents products include kits and enzymes for cellular analysis, proteomics and conventional PCR applications. The transition will take place this year. “This agreement allows us to provide […]
Tokyo, Japan and Santa Clara, CA 3/30/15—Japan-based scientific-instrument firm Rigaku has agreed to acquire Agilent Technologies’ XRD business for an undisclosed amount. The XRD business provides single-crystal x-ray instruments for chemical crystallography. “The acquisition of Agilent’s x-ray crystallography business represents a significant step in the expansion of our single-crystal x-ray business,” said Rigaku President and […]
Tokyo, Japan and Madison, WI 3/30/15; Tokyo, Japan 3/30/15—Fujifilm has agreed to acquire Cellular Dynamics (CDI) for $307 million in cash, or $16.50 per share, a 108% premium to CDI’s March 27 closing price. CDI develops and manufactures fully functioning human cells, including iPSCs, in industrial quantities to specification. In 2014, CDI generated $16.7 million […]
Company Announcements BioMérieux 2014 Industrial Applications revenue declined 0.9%, up 0.8% on a like-for-like basis, to €327 million ($436 million) to represent 19% of sales. Sales for Industrial Applications rose in all regions except China. R&D-related revenue was flat at €7 million ($9 million). GE Healthcare announced on its quarterly conference call that 2014 Life […]
Burgdorf, Switzerland 2/23/15—ReseaChem, a German provider of chemical services and isotope and laboratory supplies, has acquired Swiss firm ACL Instruments for an undisclosed amount. ACL provides solutions for the characterization of long-term oxidative reactions in solids and liquids, including instrumentation and services. ReseaChem stated that the acquisition was part of an effort to diversify its […]
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