Life Science Instruments
Company Announcements
DNR Bio-Imaging Systems named Berthold Technologies a distributor.
Innovative Biosensors entered into a manufacturing and development agreement with Thermo Fisher Air Quality Instruments for its BioFlash Biological Aerosol Collection, Detection and Identification System. Thermo will also have a sales, marketing and distribution license under the Thermo Scientific brand in certain markets.
In August, Innovative Biosensors Founder, President and CEO Joe Hernandez resigned.
Integrated Sensing Systems licensed intellectual property related to microtube fabrication technology to Affinity Biosensors.
The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and Life Technologies announced a strategic scientific research collaboration involving the genomic analysis of pancreatic and ovarian tumors. IMB will acquire 9 new SOLiD systems for a total of 11.
454 Life Sciences and Roche NimbleGen are collaborating with Eli Lilly and Company and SeqWright to identify genetic variants possibly associated with various psychiatric diseases.
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation named Richard K. Brown, PhD, president and CEO of AVIA Biosystems, and John P. McDonough, president and CEO of T2 Biosystems, to its Board in August.
In August, Helicos Biosciences named Jeffrey R. Moore CFO and treasurer. He was previously managing member and founder of Fiske Ponde Advisors.
Pacific Biosciences announced in August that it raised $68 million in new financing. Investors included Monsanto and The Wellcome Trust. The SMRT Sequencing System will be launched in the second half of next year.
GATC Biotech became the first sequencing provider in Germany with Illumina CSPro certification.
In August, Fluidigm raised $10.7 million as part of a $14 million debt offering.
In September, Lab901 announced it had raised £2.4 million ($3.9 million) in equity funding.
Under an exclusive sales agency agreement, GeneWorks will assist Sequenom in expanding its sales and marketing presence in Australia.
Product Introductions
Fluidigm introduced the Access Array, the first of its integrated fluidic circuit chips with the ability to harvest the sample out of the chip. It can process 48 samples against 48 amplicons (primer pairs), providing 2,304 independent reactions at a time.
Alpha Innotech released AlphaView 3.0 image analysis software, featuring a new graphic user interface.
Sequenom launched the MassARRAY Compact 96 system for lower-throughput labs.