Company Announcements

SIRION Biotech announced in June that it will open an office in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.

Advanced Cell Diagnostics raised $22 million in Series C equity financing, led by Summit Partners.

Hepregen announced a European comarketing agreement with SOLVO Biotechnology for its HepatoPac and HepatoMune kits.

The Next Gen Consortium designated the nonprofit WiCell as the distributor of the hPSC lines created as part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Next Generation Genetic Association Studies Program.

LINK added two new Japanese distributors, Cosmo Bio and Shigematsu.

In July, Sartorius Stedim Biotech announced that TAP Biosystems’ RAFT 3D cell culture system will be exclusively distributed by Lonza Bioscience.

Affymetrix, BioRealm and RUCDR Infinite Biologics announced a strategic alliance to leverage BioRealm’s SmokeScreen platform to genotype the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) biorepository of more than 50,000 samples using the SmokeScreen array developed in conjunction with the NIDA’s Genetics Consortium and Affymetrix.

Expanding its relationship with Neogen, Illumina will market and sell the GeneSeek Genomic Profiler SNP array, which contains Neogen’s custom SNP content, to the agrigenomics community. Neogen is one of Illumina’s largest agrigenomic customers.

InSphero secured CHF 20 million ($21 million) in Series C financing in July.

Product Introductions

Bio-Pact launched in June the carbon nanotube–based Bio-Target kit for binding API or other molecules to the surface of its Medical Grade Molecular Rebar for cytology and preclinical pharmacokinetic studies.

ReproCELL introduced ReproNaïve culture medium for high quality human iPSCs (naïve type).

AMSBIO released a range of human exosomes for the regenerative medicine market.

Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the Gibco Essential 8 Flex Medium PSC medium, which grows and maintains PSCs over an extended length of time.

Integrated DNA Technologies added Minor Groove Binder Eclipse GMP probes to its online service.

Lophius Biosciences introduced the T-Track ImmunoScan and T-activated ImmunoScan Cocktail for monitoring immune function in immunosuppressed patients.

EpiCypher launched a line of purified and fully recombinant nucleosomes for use in epigenetic and chromatin biology research.

SomaLogic made available its SOMAmer (Slow Off-rate Modified Aptamers) reagents as individual molecules.