Brookfield, CT 9/1/15; Boston, MA 8/31/15—Unity Scientific has been purchased by private equity firm Union Park Capital from majority owner Joseph Platano. Unity manufactures NIR, automated wet chemistry and sample preparation instruments for in-line, online and benchtop applications in applied markets, including food and dairy, agriculture and environmental. The acquisition is the first for Union […]
Aubagne, France; Goettingen, Germany; and Chalfont St. Giles, UK 9/1/15—Under an OEM supplier agreement, Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has agreed to supply GE Healthcare Life Sciences with its Sartobind adsorber purification technology. Sartorius will manufacture the technology for GE, which will market it as ReadyToProcess Adsorber. The membrane adsorber ion exchange technology is used to […]
Frankfurt, Germany 9/15/15; Millville, NJ 9/15/15—Duran Group, a portfolio of companies advised by One Equity Partners Capital Advisors (OEP), has acquired laboratory glassware supplier Wheaton from Incline Equity Partners for an undisclosed amount. Wheaton provides glassware and plasticware in North America for life science R&D, IVD and medical packaging. Earlier this year, One Equity closed […]
Santa Clara, CA and Billerica, MA 9/9/15—Agilent Technologies has definitively agreed to acquire Seahorse Bioscience for $235 million in cash. Seahorse provides instruments and assay kits for measuring cell metabolism and bioenergetics. Founded in 2001 and employing nearly 200 people, Seahorse is expected to generate $49 million in fiscal 2015 revenues. “Seahorse Bioscience’s unique technology […]
The second of IBO’s biannual features on new labs highlights facilities from the academic, government and industrial sectors, spanning a variety of disciplines. The table on page 6 lists some of the largest planned academic lab buildings as well as facilities for drug development. Also featured in this article are labs for agriculture, disease and […]
Tremendous progress has been made in using multiple reaction monitoring MS (MRM-MS) for verification of clinical biomarkers, for which it is widely used and accepted. Targeted proteomics, in which a subset of candidate biomarkers are detected and measured, using MRM-MS enables multiplex, high-throughput quantification from a few up to hundreds of proteins per sample, reducing […]
MS systems quantify and identify the chemical composition of a sample by generating its mass spectrum. A mass spectrum is a graph of the relative abundance of detected ions by mass within a sample. The process of generating mass spectra begins with the ionization of the sample, which can be achieved by a variety of […]
Agilent Lowers Outlook Given currency and the discontinued NMR business (see IBO 3/31/15), which reduced sales growth by 7% and 1%, respectively, Agilent Technologies fiscal third quarter sales ending July 31 grew 0.5% to $1,014 million (see page 12). Despite the modest growth, sales were above analysts’ expectations. Core sales, which exclude the NMR business, […]
Company Announcements In June, Genedata announced an alliance with IntelliCyt to integrate their respective Genedata Screener software and iQue Screener systems. In August, IntelliCyt named SpectraGenetics as the latest TAP awardee and partner. The TAP program collaborates with scientists and commercial partners to advance cell- and bead-based assays. Biolin Scientific named Thais T. Johansen as […]
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 […]
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