Company Announcements

Trinean entered into a license agreement in February with PerkinElmer for certain microfluidic technologies in the field of UV-Vis quantification analysis.

In February, CyVek secured a $5.5 million in financing in a Series D round.

IntegenX named Scientific Analytical Tools Trading an exclusive distributor for the Middle East.

Sphere Fluidics closed a $2.5 million Series A investment round.

In February, Aushon Biosystems appointed Thomas Mac Mahon, former president and CEO of Laboratory Corporation of America, to its Board in February.

In March, Affymetrix announced a comarketing agreement with GenoSplice, naming it a preferred data analysis service provider for the GeneChip Human Transcriptome Array 2.0.

Luminex and Merck signed a collaboration and license agreement to develop a companion diagnostic device that will be evaluated to help screen patients for recruitment into a clinical development program for MK-8931, a novel oral beta amyloid precursor protein site cleaving enzyme inhibitor, which is an investigational candidate for Alzheimer’s disease. The device will used to measure concentrations of two candidate biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid samples.

Sample6 Technologies named Tim Curran CEO in March. Previously, he was CEO of Vela Systems.

Product Introductions

ForteBio launched the Dip and Read Anti-FLAG Biosensor for use with its Octet and BLItz systems for detection of FLAG-tagged recombinant proteins and their quantitation and kinetic characterization.

In February, LI-COR Biosciences introduced the C-DiGit Blot Scanner, a digital replacement for film-based chemiluminescent Western blots that eliminates the need for a traditional darkroom.

NanoString Technologies released in February in the EU and Israel its first commercial IVD product, the Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay, for the nCounter diagnostic system.

UVP introduced the new GelDoc-Ite Imager for fast, easy imaging of fluorescent and colorimetric gels.

In February, Agilent introduced in certain European countries the CE-IVD marked SureScan Dx microarray scanner. The system is validated for use with Agilent CGH and gene expression microarrays.

In March, Bruker launched the SkyScan 1272 X-ray micro-CT system, which can visualize up to 200 Mpx virtual slices. Object details as small as 0.35 µm can be detected.

Prince Technologies released the PrinCE NEXT 800 capillary electrophoresis system, with pressure injection from a 96-well tray and user-configurable capillary lengths. It supports multiple types of external detectors.