Carlsbad, CA 2/15/08—Invitrogen has acquired a minority equity share in Q Therapeutics, a company developing cell therapeutic indications for the central nervous system (CNS) by purifying, culturing and growing populations of differentiated CNS cells for injection into patients.
Eppendorf AG introduced the TF Chip Stem Cell kit. Eppendorf AG and the Joint Research Center of the EU validated the firm’s DualChip GMO microarray kit. BioDiscovery released NEXUS CGH 2 software. Tecan AG introduced the QuadChamber for fully automated processing of four different microarrays simultaneously on one slide, which is validated for use with […]
Affymetrix awarded premier application status to Beckman Coulter’s ArrayPlex application for automated target RNA preparation on the Biomek 3000. Platicell entered into an agreement with Hamilton to automate its Combinatorial Cell Culture technology for determining optimal protocols to direct stem cell differentiation. Tecan AG and pION launched the PAMPA (Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay) Explorer […]
According to Hong Yaxiong, deputy director of the department of policy for China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), a new environmental ministry is likely to be created during the Eleventh National People’s Congress in March. The new ministry would assume SEPA’s duties and could also include the environmental duties of the Ministry of Land and […]
Nitrogen is an essential component of proteins, as well as many other biomolecules, making it an important analyte for applications involving the quantification of organic materials. Although there are many general spectroscopic methods that can be used to identify nitrogen, two main methods are used in instruments designed for total nitrogen (TN) determination: the Kjeldahl […]
On January 15, the Korean Science and Technology Ministry released a plan to place Korea among the top three countries for nanotechnology by 2020. According to the plan, by 2020, Korean companies would control 20% of the global nanotechnology market, generating sales of $260 billion per year by 2015 and $500 billion in 2020. Nano-element […]
Fluxion Biosciences appointed AutoMate Scientific as a distributor of its BioFlux System. Amaxa and Promega will develop applications based on their respective Nucleofector technology and luciferase reporter assay technologies to monitor cell signaling events in cells that are difficult to transfect. Roche Applied Sciences will exclusively market systems for real-time cell analysis based on ACEA […]
Caluire, France and Pensauken, NJ 2/1/08—Setaram, a provider of thermal analysis and calorimetry systems, has acquired Hy-Energy, a manufacturer of gas sorption instruments for clean energy applications. “The integration of Hy-Energy with Setaram further strengthens Setaram Instruments’ North American operations and provides us with a physical presence on the West Coast, closer to many of […]
Arthur Holden, Illumina Senior Vice President of Corporate and Market Development, resigned from the company in fall 2007. Rosetta Biosoftware’s Syllego System achieved Affymetrix GeneChip-compatibility status. Eppendorf Biochip Systems GmbH certified Girus Life Sciences as a service provider. Oxford Gene Technology granted a license to Phalanx Biotech to fabricate and sell arrays in the US. […]
In the January 15 issue, IBO listed CEO changes as one of the instrument industry’s main developments of 2007. On February 1, Robert F. Friel took over as CEO of PerkinElmer, the world’s fifth largest provider of analytical and life science instrumentation (see IBO 7/31/07). He remains president. Mr. Friel told IBO that as CEO […]
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