Company Announcements

ArcticZymes signed a new supply agreement with Affymetrix for its Shrimp Alkaline Phosphatase enzyme covering September 2011 through December 2017. Affymetrix previously held exclusive distribution rights.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences exclusively licensed the patent and know-how from Affitech in October 2011 for products containing recombinant Protein L.

EMD Millipore will be the initial distributor of Biopredic’s HepaRG human hepatic cells.

In November 2011, Horizon Discovery and Promega signed a strategic partnership agreement to develop predictive human disease models.

Horizon Discovery announced in November 2011 a three-year Technology Access Agreement with the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute to apply its rAAV gene editing technology to engineer human isogenic disease models.

CYTOO closed a series C funding round in November 2011, raising $10 million.

Morpho agreed to market ZyGEM’s forensic products to police forces. The firms will also collaborate on R&D.

Product Introductions

EMD Millipore launched UbiquitinProfiler Services in October 2011.

EMD Millipore introduced a suite of LentiBrite lentiviral biosensors. The initial offering encodes proteins responsible for cell structure.

GE Healthcare launched the illustra ExoStar kit for enzymatic PCR and sequencing clean-up.

SwitchGear Genomics and New England Biolabs introduced a dual-reporter assay system utilizing their respective LightSwitch Luciferase Assay System and BioLux Cypridina Luciferase Assay Technology for multiplexing capabilities in cell-based pathway analysis.

SwitchGear Genomics released the LightSwitch Synthetic Response Element GoClone reporter constructs, consisting of nearly 100 response element vectors.

Life Technologies introduced the GeneArt Algae Engineering Kit in November 2011, calling it the first commercially available genetic modification and expression systems for photosynthetic microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Synechococcus elongatus.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Thermo Scientific GlycoLink Immunobilization and Immunoprecipitation Kits for protein affinity purification and the study of protein interactions.

In December 2011, Cellular Dynamics International launched the human iCell Neurons, which were created from induced pluripotent stem cells.

PerkinElmer introduced Porcine Detection Kits for the rapid detection porcine protein/meat/Immunoglobulin G traces by the Halal food certification industry.