Company Announcements

NanoTemper Technologies opened an office in Bengaluru, India, in November 2015.

In December 2015, MR Solutions named Summit Pharmaceuticals as its sole supplier for Japan.

MR Solutions announced in January a partnership with Green Imaging Technologies and the introduction of the ImaCore 3017 for rock core imaging.

In December 2015, MBio Diagnostics announced a product development partnership and licensing agreement with Roka Bioscience covering certain exclusive and nonexclusive fields.

In January, Agilent Technologies announced an extension of its agreement with PerkinElmer, which supplies chips for its 2100 Bioanalyzer system.

Crystal Diagnostics named Hardy Diagnostics as a North American distributor of its CDx Xpress System pathogen detection platform.

Biodesy completed a $10 million Series B financing and signed its 20th commercial services agreement. Financing was led by existing investors 5AM Ventures, Pfizer Venture Investments and Roche Venture Fund.

Luminex announced in a January SEC filing that Dr. Jeremy Bridge-Cook, senior vice president, R&D, resigned.

Product Introductions

Quanterix introduced in October 2015 the Simoa 2.0 immunoassay platform, featuring increased assay robustness, improved multiplex capabilities and reduced sample size.

In December 2015, LI-COR Biosciences launched the new Pearl Trilogy System for small animal imaging, featuring a new bioluminescent detection channel.

Dolomite introduced the µEncapsulator 1 System for encapsulation of single cells, DNA and/or functionalized beads in identically sized picoliter droplets.

SGI-DNA launched cell engineering services for custom mammalian cell line development for research use.

SGI-DNA released a cloning module for its BioXp 3200 System, a DNA printer. The module can simultaneously deliver up to 24 circular DNA clones from custom DNA sequences.

In January, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the SureCast Gel Handcast System for leak-free custom development of protein gels for electrophoresis.

Nicoya Lifesciences launched the affordable OpenSPR-XT, a fully automated molecular analysis instrument.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences introduced the Amersham PhastSystem, an SDS-PAGE system that provides automatically analyzed results in one hour and runs unattended after electrophoresis is started.

ProteinSimple, a Bio-Techne firm, launched Maurice, an advanced capillary electrophoresis system, featuring a native fluorescence detection mode and a separate cartridge for each application.