Company Announcements Spark Holland added Axel Semrau as a “Value Added Partner” for Switzerland and Austria. The companies have worked together for five years in Germany. In May, Purigen Biosystems completed an $18.2 million Series A financing from 5AM Ventures and Roche Venture Fund. The company plans to commercialize an isotachophoresis-based benchtop system for automated […]
Company Announcements Circulomics received in October 2015 a $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences to create a portfolio of DNA/RNA extraction products. Neoteryx announced a joint development agreement with Brechbühler, which will engineer a turnkey instrument that automates sample handling and extraction for […]
Vleuten, the Netherlands 12/16/15—Verder Scientific has acquired ATM, a manufacturer of systems for metallographic applications. ATM has 150 employees. “With the acquisition of ATM, the Verder Scientific Division will become the market leader for mechanical sample preparation of solids,” commented Dr. Jürgen Pankratz, director of Verder Scientific. Verder also stated that the acquisition complements its […]
Chelmsford, MA 11/5/15—Brooks Automation, a supplier of automated and cryogenic solutions, has definitely agreed to acquire BioStorage Technologies for $127 million in cash. BioStorage is a provider of sample management programs and integrated cold chain solutions for the biosciences. Trailing 12-month revenues for BioStorage were $40 million. “BioStorage Technologies brings strong customer relationships and excellent […]
Company Announcements Debiopharm acquired Spinomix’s FibroTrap sample processing technology in June and will develop it for diagnostics applications. In August, Pressure BioSciences announced a two-year collaboration with the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India for proteomics research. In September, Phenomenex and Tecan announced a collaboration to comarket Phenomenex’s Strata and Strata-X SPE sorbents adapted to […]
Brookfield, CT 9/1/15; Boston, MA 8/31/15—Unity Scientific has been purchased by private equity firm Union Park Capital from majority owner Joseph Platano. Unity manufactures NIR, automated wet chemistry and sample preparation instruments for in-line, online and benchtop applications in applied markets, including food and dairy, agriculture and environmental. The acquisition is the first for Union […]
Washington, DC 8/24/15—Life science technology company RainDance Technologies has withdrawn its SEC registration statement for an IPO, citing market conditions. The company, which provides digital PCR and NGS sample preparation technologies, filed to go public earlier this year (see IBO 3/15/15).
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 […]
Company Announcements In March, ImmunoReagents announced a strategic alliance to market ProteoVec’s PV-Pure Ig microscale antibody purification kits for binding a wide range of recombinant monoclonal and human/animal-source polyclonal immune globulins. The product is based on chromatographic purification resin to which an advanced peptidomimetic ligand is affixed. In April, Pressure BioSciences entered into a collaboration […]
The annual American Association of Cancer Research meeting (AACR) was held April 18–22 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Attendance for the conference was 19,300, up about 4% from last year (see IBO 4/30/14). The number of companies exhibiting totaled 438. A notable trend in the exhibit hall was the number of CRISPR/Cas9 products and services available from […]
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