Company Announcements Radleys appointed Heidolph Brinkmann as the exclusive North American distributor for its chemistry apparatus. Radleys has more than 7,000 systems installed worldwide. In February, MultiSynTech GmbH granted Biotage AB distribution rights to its peptide synthesis systems. The companies will also jointly develop a new microwave-aided peptide synthesis system. Italian contract research organization EspiKem, […]

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 Syrris established a subsidiary office in Japan earlier this year. In September, Prosonix, a provider of ultrasonic process chemistry solutions, announced a marketing partnership with Syrris for Prosonix’s Sonolab lab-scale equipment, which employs a transducer-based design. ThalesNano announced in September the closing of an investment of $3.3 million. In October, Micronit Microfluidics, FutureChemistry […]

Company Announcements In 2007, ThalesNano opened a UK subsidiary and signed distribution agreement for Scandinavia, Italy and India. ThalesNano announced a collaboration for flow/microwave chemistry research with the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Microwave Chemistry at Karl Franzens University in Austria and with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. PolyGen named Blue Lion Biotech its […]

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 […]

Radleys appointed Interchim its exclusive German distributor. Sloning Biotechnology named Microsynth the exclusive distributor of its gene synthesis service and product family of mutant libraries in Switzerland. Sloning Biotechnology selected Research & Innovation as its exclusive Japanese distributor. PNA Inventor Group granted Link Technologies a license to manufacture and sell monomers for peptide nucleic acid […]

Syrris opened an office in La Jolla, California. Biotage AB elected Axel Broms and Per-Olof Eriksson to its Board, replacing Jeff Bork and Björn Odlander. In May, Agilent and Integrated DNA Technologies agreed to harmonize their chemistry, processes and analytical techniques and to provide reciprocal referrals for synthetic oligonucleotides, creating a complete development pathway for […]