Company Announcements

ZyGEM signed exclusive distribution agreements with Shanghai Sangon Biological Engineering Technology & Services for China and SolGent for South Korea. The company also agreed to codistribute products from Integrated DNA Technologies, Quanta Biosciences, Biometrica and Porvair Services in New Zealand and certain parts of Australia.

Rubicon Genomics incorporated ZyGEM’s enzymatic nucleic acid extraction technology into its PicoPlex kits.

Earlier this year, Exiqon A/S and Luminex exited their 2006 agreement, under which Exiqon developed and manufactured miRNA products for Luminex Bioscience. Luminex made a one-time settlement payment.

Organic sales for Exiqon A/S’s Research Products grew 29.7% in the first quarter and 21% in the second quarter.

MorphoSys AG’s AbD Serotec division and BBInterational announced a comarketing agreement in May.

Mercury Therapeutics exclusively licensed rights to Millipore to human AMPK for the research field.

Takara Bio entered into a exclusive marketing agreement with TET Systems for Japan.

AnaSpec entered into a distribution agreement with Bioeksama UAB in June for Lithuania and Latvia.

Bio-Bridge Science entered into a joint venture with 51% controlling interest with JR Scientific and other investors to form a cell-culture medium company in China.

Imagines named Genycell Biotech the exclusive distributor for Spain and Portugal of its clone collection.

Product Introductions

GE Healthcare released the Albumin & IgG Depletion SpinTrap prepacked columns.

Varian introduced the StratoSpheres DNA Synthesis Cartridges for 40 nmol and 200 nmol.

Miltenyi Biotec introduced Myelin Removal Beads for myelin removal from single-cell suspensions.

QIAGEN NV launched the QIAamp Circulating Nucleic Acid Kit for the extraction of free-circulating DNA and RNA fragments in human blood.

Clontech Laboratories, a subsidiary of Takara Bio, released the Xfect and Xfect Stem transfection reagents based on biodegradable nanoparticles.

Cellectis bioresearch launched the cGPS Custom line of kits for targeted gene integration in native cell lines.

Applied Biosystems introduced the SOLiD Whole Transcriptome Analysis Kit for the hypothesis-neutral analysis of gene expression profiles in the transcriptome.

Sigma-Aldrich released over 2,300 antibody additions to its Prestige Antibodies product line in June.

Rubicon Genomics launched the PicoPlex Single Cell Whole Genome Amplification kit for pre-implantation genetic diagnostics, and stem cell and cancer cell research.