Company Announcements

RiNA GmbH acquired the RTS Protein Expression portfolio of cell-free expression kits from Roche Applied Science in September. 5PRIME will assume responsibility for sales, support and distribution.

New England Peptide opened a West Coast development office in San Francisco, California, in September.

Sigma-Aldrich will distribute BioLife Solutions’ HypoTermosol and CryoStor biopreservation media products.

Nacalai agreed to distribute LifeSensors’ Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway research tools and recombinant protein expression technologies in Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

Gelcompany appointed Genmall Biotechnology as its sales and marketing partner for Taiwan.

AnaSpec named BIOCOM Biotech as a South African distributor.

ArunA Biomedical signed a multiyear manufacturing and distribution agreement with Life Technologies for its human neural cells.

As part of its license with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Pierce Biotechnology business, Proteome Sciences agreed to allow Thermo to sublicense its TMT isobaric mass tag technology to Life Technologies. In connection with this, Life Technologies agreed to withdraw any opposition against Proteome Sciences’s patents in Europe.

Product Introductions

Cisbio Bioassays launched the Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence-based Cellul’erk assay for phosphorylated-ERK1/2 investigation.

Cisbio Bioassays introduced a catalog of ligands and plasmids in September.

Enzo Life Sciences introduced the Total Nuclear-ID Green/Red Nucleolar/Nuclear Detection Kit for simultaneous live-cell imaging of nuclear components.

In September, New England BioLabs released the NEBNext series of highly pure reagents for sample preparation for next-generation sequencing.

MO BIO Laboratories introduced the PowerWater RNA Isolation Kit, designed to isolate high-quality total RNA from a variety of filtered water samples.

Caliper Life Science launched a series of XenoLight Rediject reagents for its IVIS optical imaging systems.

Pressure BioSciences released the ProteoSolve-CE NATIVE and STRINGENT pressure cycling technology–dependent kits for the extraction of proteins from nematode C. elegans.

In September, Agilent introduced the Agilent Complex Proteomics Standard for MS-based proteomic workflow qualification testing. It contains more than 1,500 proteins.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Thermo Scientific Pierce Human In Vitro Glycoprotein Expression Kit.