Company Announcements

Cisbio US agreed to distribute Multispan’s portfolio of cell lines in the US.

Cisbio Bioassays announced in September that Promega’s HaloTag technology is available for use on its Tag-Lite platform.

In October, Cisbio Bioassays partnered with Blue Sky BioProducts, the provider of TDA 2.0, a stable solution of lipid-based nanoparticles with nickel-chelating moieties.

LGC Standards is distributing Reinnervate’s ec23, a stable synthetic retinoid used for stem cell differentiation, in Europe.

In September, India-based agricultural firm Kilpest and Spain’s Biotools B&M Labs agreed to establish a joint venture company in India to develop and manufacture diagnostic kits and research tools for the clinical, molecular biology and agfood markets.

Beckman Coulter entered into a strategic alliance with Trillium Diagnostics to market specific Trillium flow cytometry assays in North America, South America and the majority of Europe, Asia and Australasia.

Integrated DNA Technologies entered into an exclusive agreement with 454 Life Sciences in October to provide custom primers for the GS FLX Titanium Chemistry.

Product Introductions

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Thermo Scientific Pierce Glutathione Agarose family of products for cost-effective purification of GST-tagged proteins from cellular lysates. They are available in prepacked spin columns.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced 30 Thermo Scientific Pierce Chromatin Immunoprecipitation–validated Antibodies.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the new Thermo Scientific Nunclon Vita stem cell culture surface, which enables direct attachment, colony formation and growth of human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells without feeder cells or matrix coatings.

BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG introduced the AbsoluteIDQ p180 Kit for quantifying 186 metabolites from five compound classes. It is designed for use with the AB SCIEX API 4000 and 4000 QTRAP MS systems.

New England Biolabs launched NEBNext mRNA Sample Prep Reagent Set 1 and Master Mix Set 1 for non-directional mRNA library preparation for Illumina sequencing and for the preparation of expression libraries.

ATCC introduced a solution to grow normal human primary adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells. It includes cells, media, growth supplements and reagents.

BAC released CaptureSelect HumanPlasma14 for the single-step depletion of the 14 most abundant proteins from human blood plasma and serum.

Caprotec bioanalytics GmBH launched the Dasatinib caproKit, the C2 CAMP caproKit and the Biotin Capping Kit, bringing the number of available caproKits to 10.