Waltham, MA and Shanghai, China 9/8/09; Chennai, India 9/8/09—PerkinElmer has acquired companies in India and China to expand its diagnostics business. PerkinElmer acquired SYM-BIO Lifescience, a Chinese provider of diagnostics instruments and related reagents, which specializes in the area of infectious diseases, for $63.7 million in cash. The acquisition doubles PerkinElmer’s access to hospitals in […]
Waltham, MA 9/2/09; Henningsdorf, Germany 9/3/09—Thermo Fisher Scientific has agreed to purchase B.R.A.H.M.S. AG for €330 million ($470 million), including debt and liabilities. B.R.A.H.M.S. provides specialty in vitro diagnostic tests based on biomarkers for sepsis, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, as well as intensive care treatments and prenatal screening. B.R.A.H.M.S. offers tests and instrumentation for laboratory […]
Waltham, MA 9/15/09—Thermo Fisher Scientific has appointed Chief Operating Officer Marc N. Casper president, CEO and director, effective October 15. He replaces Marijn E. Dekkers, Thermo’s president and CEO since 2002 (see IBO 11/30/02), who will resign to become CEO of Bayer AG, starting October 1, 2010. “Marc’s strong leadership at Thermo Fisher over the […]
Washington, DC 9/2/09; Toronto, Canada 9/2/09; Carlsbad, CA 9/2/09—Danaher has signed a definitive agreement to purchase MDS’s Analytical Technologies division, which includes MDS’s 50% MS joint venture with Life Technologies and its Bioresearch and Drug Discovery product lines. Danaher has also agreed to purchase Life Technologies’ 50% interest in the joint venture. The aggregate purchase […]
In the second acquisition worth over $1 billion in just over a month, Danaher has announced an agreement to acquire Life Technologies’ MS business and MDS Analytical Technologies for a combined price of $1.1 billion (see page 2). The deal brings a new player into the highly competitive MS market and enlarges Danaher’s presence in […]
Flow cytometry companies have been making news lately, with new products, agreements and an acquisition. Advances in lasers, detectors and reagents have allowed for more complex and sensitive analysis. Applications of flow cytometry include apoptosis, cell-cycle phosphorylation status, surface markers, protein expression and DNA-content determination. In 2009, the market for research flow cytometers is valued […]
The development of optical tweezers dates back to the 1970s when a Bell Laboratory scientist, Arthur Ashkin, first discovered the effect of gradient forces and optical light scattering on a particle. Shortly thereafter, Drs. Ashkin and JM Dziedzic were successfully able to lift a particle in air by creating a single-beam trap. However, it was […]
Company Announcements Frank Witney, president and CEO of Dionex, resigned from Transgenomic’s Board in May. Proteome Sciences licensed Axela’s dotLab System to develop assays to measure its brain damage biomarkers. Axela obtained an option to license the assays for research and diagnostic use. In June, Luminex established an office in Shanghai, China. Luminex named Michael […]
Company Announcements Hach announced that starting in January 2009 its Hach Ultra business was “aligned” with Hach Lange, with all products now sold under the Hach Lange brand. Aqua Diagnostic appointed three new distributors: ManSci for Canada and the US, John Morris Scientific for Australia and New Zealand, and FKV for Italy. ASA Analytics named […]
The Malaysian Organization of Pharmaceutical Industries (MOPI) forecasts the country’s pharmaceutical industry to grow 10% to MYR 9.3 billion ($1.1 billion) this year. Fueling the growth is demand related to the H1NI virus. The generic drug manufacturing industry makes up 35% of the domestic market and is estimated to grow 15% due to growth in […]
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