Company Announcements Roche Diagnostics licensed rights from Exiqon A/S to use the SYBR Green I reagent in real time PCR. Enigma Diagnostics opened a US office in San Francisco, California, in December 2008. Ionian Technologies granted EnviroLogix exclusive rights to develop, manufacture and sell tests for the agricultural, plant pathogen and veterinary markets, utilizing its […]
The life science instrument market includes 10 product categories and accounts for the largest share of the analytical instrumentation market due to strong support from government programs, and private and public research institutions. Somewhat immune to negative sales trends caused by the downturn of global economies, the life science market grew 7.2% in 2008 to […]
Company Announcements Pall acquired GeneSystems, a provider of microbiological detection systems for process monitoring, in September. Invitrogen launched a patent-licensing program in September. New England Biolabs, QIAGEN GmbH and Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories licensed technology covering the random prime amplification of nucleic acids. Takara Bio granted Promega a license to make, use and sell LA-PCR–related […]
Company Announcements The Beijing Genome Institute and PentaBase ApS are developing real-time PCR kits for the detection of clinical biomarkers. Roche Diagnostics granted a license to BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH for the development, production and sale of kits for food and GMO analysis using the LightCycler instrument with melting curve analysis technology. Merck KGaA began selling […]
Company Announcements In January, WaferGen Biosystems formally opened its Malaysian subsidiary in Kedah, which will initially focus on R&D. WaferGen also entered into a contract manufacturing agreement with Malaysia-based Pentamaster. Cepheid appointed Andrew D. Miller as senior vice president, CFO in April. He was previously vice president and chief accounting officer for Autodesk. EnviroLogix and […]
New Orleans, Louisiana, played host to the 59th annual Pittsburgh conference and exhibition (Pittcon), which was held March 1–7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Although Pittcon took place against a backdrop of escalating fears of a US recession, one would have never known it. Companies were upbeat about future business prospects and the […]
The life science instrumentation market grew 8.7% to $9.2 billion in 2007. The market consists of DNA and peptide sequencers, DNA and peptide synthesizers, nucleic acid amplification or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) systems, gel electrophoresis equipment, molecular biology purification kits, microarray-based products, biosensors, bioinformatics and cheminformatics, cell analysis technologies and in vivo animal imaging. The […]
Takata Bio granted Kemp Biotechnologies a worldwide license to make, use and sell LA-PCR–related products, bringing its number of LA-PCR licensees to 20. This year, Applied Biosystems began to manufacture its own enzymes for use in its TaqMan gene expression and genotyping master mixes. Applied Biosystems and Integromics SL will comarket an integrated real-time PCR […]
QIAGEN NV released the QuantiFast Probe RT-PCR Kit, featuring QuantiFast RT Mix for cDNA synthesis in 10 minutes. Analytik Jena AG introduced the compact SatelliteSC and high-end AlphaSC thermocyclers. Applied Biosystems introduced the TaqMan Array Human MicroRNA Panel, configured in an array format. Applied Biosystems launched the Fast SYVR Green Master Mix for real-time PCR. […]
In March, Enzo Biochem announced that the US Board of Patents and Interferences entered judgment in its favor for its patent application for nucleic acid signal amplification over two Princeton University patents. The Chido Companies, owner of Clean Air Labs, established a strategic partnership with Roche Diagnostics to set a DNA-based standard for mold detection […]
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