Company Announcements

De Novo Software and ChemoMetec signed a comarketing agreement in October 2011.

Nexcelom Bioscience signed a licensing agreement with De Novo Software in October 2011.

Partec agreed in November 2011 to sell De Novo Software’s FCS Express software with its CyFlow Cube instrument and to resell the software worldwide.

Synthetic biology firm Intrexon formed a Cell Engineering Unit in October 2011 through the acquisition of GT Life Sciences, a developer of in silico models, and the acquisition of the assets comprising Cyntellect’s LEAP cell processing platform.

In December 2011, DVS Sciences named Joseph Victor president and CEO. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Applied Precision.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and the University of California San Francisco are collaborating on a three-year, $840,000 project to use the blood-forming stem cells found in umbilical cord blood for transplant into patients.

Fluxion Bioscience signed a distribution agreement in December 2011 for EMD Millipore’s PrecisION range of ion channel cell lines.

Product Introductions

Molecular Devices released in October 2011 the MetaMorph NX Software 4D Viewer module for transforming images into an interactive three-dimensional display.

Molecular Devices released IonWorks Barracuda Software 2.0, featuring multiple protocol mode and the ability to review data on the fly in assay development mode.

PerkinElmer launched new hardware and software features for the Opera High Content Screening System, including a new user interface, transmitted light module with digital phase-contrast and 4X objective lens.

Chemometec released the NucleoCounter NC-200, which can provide one-step viability and cell count in less than 50 seconds.

Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the Thermo Scientific ArrayScan Infinity High Content Platform, a confocal microscopy system with Nipkow spinning disk technology and a variable pinhole.

Applied Precision, a GE Healthcare company, introduced the DeltaVision OMX Blaze in November 2011. The system can acquire moving images of live cells at super resolution in all three dimensions.

In November 2011, Fluxion Biosciences released the F1 giga-ohm seal plates for the IonFlux automated patch clamp system. The new plates broaden the use of the system to applications where high-fidelity recordings from individual cells are preferred.

In December 2011, EMD Millipore launched the Muse Cell Analyzer for real-time quantitative assessment of cell concentration, cell health, apoptosis and cell cycle. It is priced just above $12,000.