Company Announcements

ACEA Biosciences and Hurel entered into a technology and marketing alliance in October 2014. Hurel cocultures of primary cryopreserved hepatocytes will be made to order in ACEA’s xCELLigence microtiter E-Plates.

Seahorse Bioscience and Volpi announced in November 2014 a liaison to develop and manufacture optical modules for the Seahorse XF Extracellular Flux Analyzer.

In January, Seahorse Bioscience announced the 500th citation in a scientific journal for the year 2014. Seahorse’s XF metabolic-analysis technology has been cited in more than 1,500 publications since 2005.

In November 2014, Northeastern University and Phase Holographic Imaging extended their ongoing technology- evaluation program to create a Holographic Imaging Cytometry Program of Excellence for time-lapse cytometry.

In December 2014, Fluidigm announced a collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute to accelerate the development of new methods for the analysis of single-cell genomics, forming the Single Cell Genomics Centre on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus.

In a January SEC filing, ViroCyt announced that it raised $3.5 million.

Nanion Technologies opened a new research laboratory in Japan within the Tokyo Women’s Medical University—Waseda University Joint Institution for Advanced Biomedical Sciences.

Biolin Scientific granted Nanion Technologies a license for the key patents related to performing multihole, high-throughput ion channel screening.

Product Introductions

ViroCyt and I&L Biosystems introduced the Virus Counter 3100 in Europe in October 2014.

Molecular Devices launched in November 2014 the Digidata 1550A Low-Noise Data Acquisition System plus HumSilencer noise-canceling technology for the analog-to-digital conversion of biological signals measured in electrophysiology experiments. HumSilencer provides single-click elimination of the 50 Hz and 60 Hz line-frequency noise that can impair analysis of biological signals.

EMD Millipore introduced the Amnis NF?B Translocation kit for studying nuclear translocation using the Amnis ImageStream X Mark II and Amnis FlowSight imaging flow cytometers. It works with cultured cell lines and whole blood cells.

Bio-Rad Laboratories launched the S3e Cell Sorter for cell sorts of one or two populations, designed to be a “personal” cell sorter for individual labs, featuring the AutoGimbal System automated system for aligning the nozzle tip and stream to the optics.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Countess II FL Automated Cell Counter, a three-channel (brightfield and two optional fluorescence channels) system.