Company Announcements

Stratedigm named LK BioScience a distributor for South Korea and Biomed Diagnostics a distributor for Singapore.

Becton, Dickinson and Company disclosed that the fair value of consideration transferred for Sirigen (see IBO 8/31/12) was $52 million in cash and $12 million in contingent consideration.

In December 2012, IntelliCyt formed a collaborative marketing alliance to co-promote its HTFC Screening System with Shotgun Mutageneis’ protein mapping technology and engineering platform.

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, GeneBio and Quartz Bio announced a long-term collaboration agreement to develop, use and jointly promote SIB’s MegaClust platform for the analysis of flow cytometry data. MegaClust performs an automated, unbiased and thorough identification of phenotypically similar cell populations in large datasets consisting of many samples.

Product Introductions

Owl Biomedical and Innovative Micro Technology (IMT) officially launched in October 2012 the easy-to-use, disposable Nanosorter cell sorting system, utilizing IMT’s MEMS cell sorting devices.

Roche Applied Science launched globally in October 2012 the Cedex HT Analyzer for cell fermentation and process analytics. It can process up to 120 tests per hour.

Cellectricon introduced the new Cellaxess ACE Adherent Cell Electroporation Systems for in situ transfection of any adherent cell type.

In December 2012, GE Healthcare Life Sciences launched the IN Cell Analyzer 2200, a high-speed, flexible, modular imaging system for both investigative microscopy and automated high-content screening of organelles, cells, tissues and whole organisms. It can image a two-colored 96-well plate assay in less than 2.5 minutes.

Fluxion Biosciences introduced the CytoFlux System for imaging cytometry and analysis of adherent or suspension cells. It is designed to be added to almost any inverted microscope. The full package consists of the BioFlux environmental control system, BioFlux Montage Software and De Novo Software’s FCS Express 4 Image Cytometry software.

DeNovo Software announced in January that its FCS Express 4 Image Cytometry software can read data from PerkinElmer’s Opera and Operetta instruments and Columbus database.

De Novo Software announced in January the compatibility of its FCS Express 4 Image Cytometry Software with Life Technologies’ Tali Image Based Cytometer.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the new Thermo Scientific ArrayScan XTI High Content Analysis Reader, new Thermo Scientific CellInsight NXT High Content Screening Platform and the Thermo Scientific X1 upgrade for the ArrayScan VTI high-content screening readers.