Company Announcements

Seahorse Bioscience appointed In Vitro Technologies as a distributor for Australia and New Zealand and Research Instruments as a distributor for Southeast Asia.

IntelliCyt named five new European distributors: Bucher Biotec for Switzerland; Westburg for Benelux and Scandinavia; Grupo Taper for Spain and Portugal; Labtech France; and BioTech for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Russia.

In July, DVS Sciences secured $14.6 million in a Series A venture-financing round. Investors included Pfizer Venture Investments and the Roche Venture Fund.

Nepa Gene named Bulldog Bio as the sole distributor of its new NEPA21 Electro-kinetic Transfection System in the US and Canada.

In September, Cellectricon named David Burns president.

Product Introductions

Flyion launched the f11 automated patch clamp device, featuring PatchTip glass pipettes in which the experiment is performed and that reduce the cost per measurement.

Cytocentrics launched the CytoPatch Instrument, a fully automated device for gigaseal patch clamp measurements in the whole cell configuration. The patch clamp process takes place inside a three-dimensional quartz glass microchip with integrated microfluidic channels.

In September, Life Technologies released a new laser configuration (blue/red) for its Attune Acoustic Focusing Cytometer.

Molecular Devices introduced the XL model of the ImageXpress Micro System, which can capture cellular resolution images using a single field that encompasses one 384 well. The new MetaXpress 4 software increases image analysis speed 100%.

Eppendorf launched the PiezoXpert for piezo-assisted manipulation and microinjection techniques. It is compatible with product from other manufacturers.

NanoTherics introduced the magnefect-nano II, an oscillating magnet-based system for gene transfection.

PerkinElmer released the Volocity 6.0 three-dimensional cellular imaging software, featuring simpler work flows and the ability to measure distances in three dimensions between structures across a whole field or within biologically relevant compartments.

Lonza released the Y module for its 4D-Nucleofector system, which enables adherent Nucleofection of neural cells grown in 24-well tissue culture plates.

In October, Yokogawa Electric introduced the CellVoyager CV7000 high-throughput cytological discovery system, with four times as wide an imaging area as the previous model and higher resolution.

PerkinElmer released the HCA ImagAmp reagent kits, for high-content screening, which utilize Tyramide Signal Amplification technology.