Engham, UK 9/30/13; Amesbury, UK 9/30/13; Malvern, UK 9/30/13—Spectris’s Malvern Instruments business, which provides instrumentation for materials and biophysical characterization, has acquired NanoSight for £15 million ($24 million = £0.62 = $1) net of debt and cash acquired. NanoSight’s Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis technology enables the simultaneous multi-parameter analysis and characterization of different types of nanoscale […]
Menlo Park, CA 9/25/13; Washington DC 9/25/13—Sequencer maker Pacific Biosciences has announced an agreement with Roche Diagnostics to develop and manufacture diagnostic products, including sequencing systems and consumables. The products will be sold exclusively to Roche, which will distribute them in the human IVD field. Pacific Biosciences retains rights for all other fields. “We are […]
Reinach, Switzerland 9/27/13—Endress+Hauser, a supplier of industrial measurement and automation equipment, has announced that, following its purchase of 47% of the shares of publicly held German analytical instrument firm Analytik Jena, it is preparing an offer to shareholders to acquire the remaining shares. The company plans to offer €13.75 ($18.57 = €0.74 = $1) per […]
Santa Clara, CA 9/19/13; Santa Clara, 9/19/13—Agilent Technologies has announced plans to spin off its Electronic Measurement division as a separately traded public company. The remaining business, consisting of the company’s Life Sciences, Chemical Analysis and Diagnostics segments, will retain the Agilent name and continue under President and CEO William Sullivan. Those businesses are estimated […]
The second of IBO’s biannual new laboratory roundup focuses on new academic, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas labs. In addition, the table on page 3 highlights plans for new labs for the automotive and food industries, as well as for cancer research. Seven life science teaching labs have recently been announced. Johns Hopkins’ Undergraduate Teaching […]
Major changes at the top analytical instrument companies continue to unfold. This month, Agilent Technologies, the second-largest analytical and life science instrument company (see IBO 4/15/13), announced that it will spin off its Electronic Measurement Group (EM), transforming it into a company dedicated to laboratory instrumentation. This follows the April announcement of the acquisition of […]
Tissue homogenization is often the very first step in isolating cells for either analysis or further extraction of their content, such as DNA and proteins. The traditional method of performing tissue homogenization is by manually applying force onto tissues in order to break them into smaller, homogenous pieces, from which the cells and other components […]
Company Announcements Advanced Cell Diagnostics and PerkinElmer entered into a comarketing agreement for their respective RNAscope multiplexed fluorescence assays and multispectral imaging technologies. Affymetrix promoted Gavin Wood to executive vice president and CFO in May. Most recently, he served as vice president, Finance, International Controller. PathoGenetix and Applied Maths agreed in June to integrate their […]
Company Announcements BioTek Instruments established a Japanese office, located in Tokyo, effective July 1. BioTek will continue to work with existing distributor Central Scientific Comm. In July, Brooks Automation named Robyn C. Davis to its Board. She is managing director of AngelHealthcare Investors. TTP Labtech announced that product sales increased more than 20% in 2012 […]
Company Announcements LGC Genomics and Covaris announced in June a partnership to integrate their respective DNA purification solution and FFPE extraction workflow. In July, QIAGEN partnered with Exosome Diagnostics to develop and commercialize sample preparation kits for the processing of nucleic acids from exosomes. The exclusive agreement includes the life science and translational medicine markets. […]
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