Darmstadt, Germany 8/30/11; Seattle, Washington 8/30/11—Merck Millipore has agreed to acquire Amnis, a designer, manufacturer and seller of high-speed cell-imaging instrumentation. Financial terms were not provided. Amnis had 2010 sales of $14 million. The company has 40 employees. “Amnis’ technology will put EMD Millipore at the forefront of cell analysis by providing us access to […]
Overall, it was a solid calendar-year second quarter for major, US, publicly held analytical instrument companies. However, the continued slowdown in US academic spending raised concerns. Life Technologies and Waters each reported softer-than-expected results, citing delayed US academic and government spending. The eight businesses whose results are profiled on pages 9–11 reported combined sales growth […]
Instrument companies are increasingly partnering with universities and reaping the benefits. Agilent, Waters and Thermo Fisher Scientific’s academic collaborations provide R&D, application and market insights. These mutually beneficial relationships allow the company and the university to combine their resources. Several new products have emerged as a result of such partnerships. Each year, Agilent establishes as […]
Company Announcements In May, New England Biolabs opened a subsidiary in France, just south of Paris. Life Technologies exclusively licensed in June Transcription Activator-Like (TAL) Effector Technology for “plant research tool uses.” The technology enables synthetic biologists to program and control the genetic circuitry in engineered pathways and organisms. In a June SEC filing, Stemgent […]
Company Announcements Xenemetrix signed an exclusive distribution agreement in June with Veretex Technics for Spain. Product Introductions Bruker introduced the TRACER IV GEO handheld X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) system, with the ability to install user-developed calibrations. Olympus Innov-X launched the handheld DELTA-50 XRF, with a 4 W, 50 kV X-ray tube, for rare earth element […]
Company Announcements Accelrys announced in May that as part of a restructuring of the former Symyx Content business, several legacy products will be retired, including all reaction databases and the DiscoveryGate Classic platform. The company forecasts 2011 non-GAAP revenues of $152–$155 million. In May, Accelrys announced the retirement of Steven D. Goldby from its Board […]
Reminiscent of a year ago, August proved to be a depressed month for global equity prices. Spurred by increased economic fears, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ fell 4.4%, 5.7% and 6.4% for the month, respectively. Year to date, the Dow has gained 0.3%, while the S&P 500 and NASDAQ are down […]
Laboratory asset management (LAM) is an enterprise-level service that has become an important component of large, multinational companies maintaining accurate appraisals of their lab assets. It includes services such as scheduled and preventative maintenance, instrument repair, managing warranties, instrument and component purchasing, compliance and calibrations, instrument lifecycle planning, and instrument relocation. LAM services are extremely […]
Company Announcements Illumina reduced the price of its individual genome-sequencing service in June from $19,500 to $9,500. Fox Chase Cancer Center will use Life Technologies’ SOLiD system, the Ion Torrent sequencer and novel biological information technology systems as part of a new program to provide next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of solid tumors. The program includes […]
Company Announcements Grant Instruments opened a regional office in Shanghai, China, in March. In April, Henry Schein, a provider of health care products to office-based practitioners, acquired Alpha Scientific. Alpha Scientific, a distributor of medical/surgical, pharmaceutical and lab products to physician offices and medical labs, had 2010 sales of $10 million. Bibby Scientific opened a […]
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