Milford, MA 8/19/13—SeraCare Life Sciences has purchased Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories (KPL) for an undisclosed amount. KPL develops antibodies and related reagents for life science research and diagnostics. The acquisition will expand SeraCare’s offerings for developing IVD assays. “SeraCare strives to facilitate its customers’ product development efforts, allowing researchers to focus on the science, specifically […]
Company Announcements In May, QIAGEN opened the QIAGEN (Suzhou) Translational Medicine Center to accelerate the discovery and validation of biomarkers and create companion diagnostics for the Chinese market. The Center is a joint venture with BioBAY, a life sciences cluster located near Shanghai. QIAGEN (Suzhou) is expected to grow to about 50 employees within three […]
Brno, Czech Republic 8/5/13—Tescan, a provider of scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) and focused ion beam (FIB) workstations, has merged with Orsay Physics, a supplier of FIB and electron beam technology, to form Tescan-Orsay. Orsay Physics has been Tescan’s sole supplier of ion beam technology since 2007.
Calgary, Canada 8/2/13; Calgary, Canada 8/7/13; Calgary, Canada 8/7/13; Toronto, Canada 8/7/13; Toronto, Canada 8/1/13; Toronto, Canada 8/5/13; Toronto, Canada 8/14/13— On August 7, 1756349 Alberta completed its offer to purchase the outstanding shares of Galvanic Applied Sciences, a provider of online analytical instrumentation for natural gas and liquid processing, for CAD 1.70 per share […]
Indianapolis, IN 8/1/13—Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has acquired the flow cytometry business assets of ReaMetrix India. The acquisition will expand Beckman Coulter’s flow cytometry reagent offerings, adding ReaMetrix’s dry temperature-stable reagents for clinical research and HIV monitoring. “This acquisition provides both immediate opportunity and long-term value,” said Mario Koksch, vice president and general manager of […]
Milford, MA 8/7/13—Waters has acquired Nonlinear Dynamics, a UK-based provider of proteomics and metabolomics analysis software, including Progenesis software for analyzing and visualizing raw proteomic data, for an undisclosed amount. “The opportunity to combine Nonlinear Dynamics informatics expertise with Waters worldwide leadership in chromatography and mass spectrometry will continue to create significant benefits for omics-focused […]
Rodano, Italy 7/8/13—Italian holding company Dasit Sciences has purchased Carlo Erba Reagenti, a provider of laboratory reagents. Carlo Erba Reagenti has 151 employees and operates manufacturing facilities in France and Spain. As a result, Dasit Sciences has changed its name to Carlo Erba Reagents. “The purpose of this acquisition and joining of the two companies […]
Company Announcements In May, Green Imaging Technologies announced a licensing agreement with Schlumberger Technology for access to a processing and analysis algorithm to extract 2D maps from data for use in rock core NMR analysis. It is the first company to gain a license to the technology. In May, Stelar and HTS-100 announced a collaboration […]
Chelmsford, MA 7/23/13—Brooks Automation has agreed to acquire the assets and business of Matrical for $10 million in cash. Matrical provides biological sample preparation, management and storage solutions for agbio, biotechnology, life science tools and pharmaceutical markets. “We are enthusiastic about welcoming the founders and employees of Matrical to Brooks and foresee them making a […]
San Diego, CA 7/23/13—Illumina has acquired Advanced Liquid Logic (ALL) for an undisclosed amount. ALL provides “digital microfluidics” technology based on electrowetting that precisely manipulates small droplets with sealed disposable cartridges to perform complex lab protocols. “For our research customers, ALL’s technology will further streamline the industry’s simplest NGS [next generation sequencing] workflow, while for […]
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