Company Announcements

Olink announced reorganization, effective April 1. It now operates as two separate companies: Olink Proteomics, which offers the Proseek Multiplex product line, and Olink Bioscience, which is focused on developing and commercializing additional technologies.

STEMCELL Technologies signed an exclusive licensing agreement with the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Molecular Biotechnology for the rights to develop products for cerebral organoid culture.

LabNetwork announced a comarketing partnership for Zenobia Fragments’ full fragment library collection.

Sengenics and Raybiotech entered into a commercial partnership to cobrand Sengenics’ Immunome protein array platform.

The Binding Site granted Rockland Immunochemicals exclusive distribution rights to its line of animal-focused radial immunodiffusion test kits for determining the concentration of an antigen or protein in a biological sample.

Horizon Discovery’s 2015 revenues grew 69.7% to £20.2 million ($31.1 million) (see IBO 4/30/16). Product revenues (in vivo and in vitro disease models, diagnostic reference standards) grew 123.9% to £7.8 million ($12.0 million). Adjusted operating loss doubled to £10.7 million ($16.5 million).

In May, Bio-Techne made a seed investment in B-MoGen, a provider of gene editing technology, and the companies entered into a collaboration agreement. B-MoGen has filed for patent coverage for a new universal method for rapid, single-step isolation of gene-edited cells.

Illumina will provide BioDiscovery’s NxClinical software as the secondary data analysis and management tool for its CytoSeq assay.

Product Introductions

EpiGentek launched in April the fourth generation MethylFlash Global DNA Methylation (5-mC) ELISA Easy Kit and MethylFlash Global DNA Hydroxymethylation (5-hmC) ELISA Easy Kit.

Corning Life Sciences in collaboration with BioLamina launched Corning PureCoat rLaminin-521 cultureware, a family of animal-free, precoated, ready-to-use vessels for stem cell research, which are US Class 1 medical devices.

AMSBIO introduced the 96-Well CometChip System, which can produce 20,000 data points per chip based on an average of 208 cells imaged per well.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Fisher BioReagents FastRun Tris SDS PAGE Running Buffer, designed for use at higher voltages in reduced time.

Miltenyi Biotec introduced three Viobility Fixable Dyes for discrimination between live and apoptotic or dead cells by flow cytometry.

In May, Aushon BioSystems launched the Ciraplex ULTRA Ultrasensitive Assays, a multiplex immunoassay platform for fg/mL levels of detection.