Company Announcements Cepheid’s 2015 Non-Clinical revenue declined 1.2% to $28.7 million, or 5% of total revenues. North America Non-Clinical sales grew 11.0% to $27.6 million due to increased grant and collaboration revenues. International Non-Clinical sales fell 75.0% to $1.0 million. Non-Clinical revenue is also expected to decline in 2016. In February, Cepheid named Warren Kocmond, […]
Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany 5/9/16—SYGNIS, a publicly held provider of products for DNA sample enrichment and nucleic acid analysis, has agreed to acquire Expedeon through a majority share offering and €1.7 million ($1.9 million = €0.88 = $1) in cash. UK-based Expedeon develops, manufactures and sells proteomics reagents. The companies’ combined 2016 revenues are […]
London, UK and Alexandria, MN 4/6/16—Life sciences and measurement firm LGC has acquired a majority stake in Douglas Scientific from Kingdom Enterprises. Douglas Scientific supplies high-throughput PCR and qPCR platforms, and Array Tape consumables. “Customers will benefit from the unique synergies between our two organizations, including: combined workflow solutions for extraction, genotyping and gene expression […]
CRISPR is a disruptive gene editing methodology that has invigorated the genomics market, taking life science research to another level of innovation. With explosive growth, the technology is not only creating opportunities in genetic engineering but is fueling growth for enabling technologies, such as NGS, PCR, lab automation, microarrays, nucleic acid preparation kits, flow cytometry […]
Company Announcements SYGNIS announced in December 2015 a distribution agreement with Mayflower Bioscience for the US, and with PhileKorea, Pharma Tech Korea and Axil Scientific for South Korea and Singapore. In December 2015, Transgenomic was awarded a two-year, $1.5 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant by the NIH to fund a project with the Dana-Farber […]
A subsegment of the qPCR market, nanoliter qPCR technologies have expanded qPCR capabilities and applications, enabling thousands of assays to be performed simultaneously with smaller sample amounts, resulting in lower reagent costs, higher throughput and more data points. Nanoliter PCR formats were introduced in the late 2000s and initially aimed at the largest application segments […]
Company Announcements In July, AsureQuality and Ubiquitome announced a collaboration for mobile molecular food safety and primary production testing. In August, LGC appointed Sigma-Aldrich as the sole distributor of its off-the-shelf KASP Genotyping Assay and as a nonexclusive distributor of KASP MasterMix reagents, custom KASP Laboratory Validated Assays and custom KASP Designed Assays. PositiveID raised […]
Pleasanton, CA 8/24/15; Cambridgeshire, UK 8/24/15—Roche has definitively agreed to acquire from Lumora products associated with Heat Elution technology for nucleic acid purification of multiple sample types, including FFPE tumor samples. According to Roche, Lumora’s technology simplifies nucleic acid isolation, takes only minutes and can be used with a variety of samples types. “Lumora’s Heat […]
Basel, Switzerland 8/19/15—Roche has agreed to acquire Kapa Biosystems for an undisclosed amount. US-based Kapa provides life science reagents for NGS and real-time PCR applications, including enzymes such as novel DNA polymerases. Roche stated that Kapa’s protein engineering technology is customizable, generates large numbers of variants and can rapidly provide enzymes with tailored performance for […]
With the first half of the year behind us, let us reflect on the state of the analytical and life science instrumentation and lab products market, how it has developed thus far and what is in store for the rest of 2015. The original January forecast (see IBO 1/15/15) was published without the benefit of […]
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