Two acquisitions were announced in late June involving providers of laboratory software (see page 2). IDBS agreed to purchase InforSense, creating a portfolio of products for storing, managing and analyzing R&D lab data. LabVantage Solutions purchased Applied Biosystems’ LIMS business, uniting two long-established LIMS companies. The acquisitions indicate further consolidation among laboratory software providers. The […]
Guildford, UK 6/26/09; London, UK 6/26/09—IDBS, a provider of data management solutions, has agreed to acquire InforSense for £5 million ($8.2 million = £0.61 = $1 ) in cash. InforSense supplies integration technologies and web-based interactive analytics. “This is a major enabling step towards becoming the number one informatics partner of R&D worldwide,” commented Neil […]
Chalfont St. Giles, England and Menlo Park, CA 6/30/09; Cambridgeshire, UK 6/25/09—GE Healthcare has entered into an exclusive license and alliance agreement with biopharmaceutical firm Geron to develop and commercialize cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening. GE has licensed Geron’s intellectual property […]
Bridgewater, NJ 6/30/09; Carlsbad, CA 6/30/09—LabVantage Solutions, developer of the SAPPHIRE LIMS, has agreed to acquire the SQL*LIMS business from Applied Biosystems, a unit of Life Technologies, for an undisclosed amount. The SQL*LIMS is an enterprise LIMS. LabVantage will continue to support SQL*LIMS product and customers. “While the LIMS business is an important asset for […]
Redmond, WA 6/1/09—Microsoft has agreed to acquire certain assets of Rosetta Biosoftware from Merck & Co. Microsoft will incorporate the genetic, genomic, metabolomic and proteomic data management software into its Amalga Life Sciences platform for translational research. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft and Merck will also form a strategic relationship, under which […]
Hillsboro, OR 6/15/09—FEI has acquired JKTech’s Mineral Liberation Analysis (MLA) business for AUD 5 million ($4 million). JKTech is the technology transfer company for the University of Queensland’s Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Center and other Centers of the Sustainable Minerals Institute. MLA technology utilizes scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) to perform automated, targeted mineralogical analysis using […]
Yellow Springs, OH 6/10/09—YSI has acquired Design Analysis Associates (DAA), which designs and markets equipment that measures, records and telemeters hydrological data. Terms were not disclosed. “Because we share many of the same customers in the water monitoring market, this acquisition is extremely synergistic,” said Rick Omlor, YSI CEO and president. The Fletcher family, which […]
Waltham, MA 6/11/09—PerkinElmer has announced a comarketing agreement with Rigaku Americas, a supplier of X-ray spectrometry, X-ray diffraction and X-ray optics. Under the agreement, the companies will share information and provide a single point of contact for PerkinElmer’s atomic spectroscopy solutions, which include atomic absorption spectrometers, ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma–Optical Emission Spectroscopy), ICP-MS and Rigaku […]
Paris and Houston, TX 5/28/09—Air Liquide’s Healthcare business has acquired Pacific Science, a provider of cryobiology equipment and services to biobanks, effective May 1. Based in Torrance, California, with 15 employees, Pacific Science distributes incubators, freezers and biological safety cabinets. Air Liquide Healthcare stated that the acquisition would provide a channel for the US sales […]
Uppsala, Sweden and Stamford, CT 5/28/09—GE Healthcare has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with FUJIFILM for the development, manufacture and supply of advanced biomolecular imaging systems to be sold under the GE brand. “Fujifilm’s high quality technology platforms fit well with our proprietary labeling technologies and the adjacent fields in the imaging workflow that […]
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