Company Announcements

ZyGEM opened a European support office in Bemmel, the Netherlands.

Innova Biosciences appointed Genetimes Technology and NeoBioscience Technology as Chinese distributors.

In March, Polyplus-transfection SA signed an agreement with metabion GmbH to manufacture and commercialize its Zip Nucleic Acid oligonucleotides for research and in vitro diagnostics applications.

Lonza Cologne AG will exclusively distribute Axiogenesis AG’s products and services, including the Cor.AT mouse embryonic stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes.

Olink Bioscience named Beijing Pioneer Medical Instrument and Multisciences Biotech as distributors for China.

Sigma-Aldrich entered into a licensing agreement with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization to manufacture and sell reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer agents, which are organic molecules that can be added to polymerization reactions to precisely control molecular weights and structures of polymers.

In March, Sigma-Aldrich entered into an agreement to sell 100 small molecule compounds developed by Pfizer for target characterization, assay development, screening and in vivo animal-model applications. This is Sigma’s third such agreement with a major drug company.

Tocris Bioscience signed an agreement to offer Pfizer research compounds for preclinical research studies.

OriGene Technologies and Essen Instruments announced a strategic alliance to codevelop ion channel cell lines, which will be comarketed by the companies.

OriGene Technologies completed a $16 million Series B financing in March.

Product Introductions

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced Thermo Scientific DyLight 680B Dyes for directly labeling proteins and other biomolecules.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released Thermo Scientific Pierce Protein Gels, featuring a new cassette design.

Platypus Technologies introduced the Oris Collagen I Cell Invasion Assay for quantitating and imaging cell invasion.

ZyGEM launched the RNAGEM Tissue RNA extraction kits, which use a single-tube process.

MO BIO Laboratories released the PowerBiofilm DNA Isolation Kit and RNA Isolation Kit.

VisEn Medical released the VivoTag 680 XL fluorescent dye for in vitro and in vivo imaging applications.

Bender MedSystems introduced a new panel of FlowCytomix products for growth factor research.

GE Healthcare released the Biacore Sensor Chip CM7 for fragment-based screening of small molecules.