Company Announcements

ADS Biotec entered into a strategic partnership in June with Kurabo Industries’ Bio-Medical Division to sell and supports Kurabo’s QuickGene line of Nucleic Acid Isolation systems and consumables in North America and Europe.

In July, Diversigen and Norgen Biotek announced a strategic partnership for a comprehensive solutions for microbiome analyses. Their combined offering includes sample collection, ambient temperature stabilization for transport of samples, purification of inhibitor-free nucleic acids from these samples, library preparation kits, and bioinformatics and analysis capabilities for preclinical and clinical specimens.

Entopsis licensed in July its PCRopsis product line to Beijing Wan Bridge Intelligent Technology and will receive a minimum of $2.8 million in revenue over three years. The product line consists of the PCRopsis Cell for direct PCR from cellular samples without DNA isolation or centrifugation in under 20 minutes; PCRopsis Blood Cell Separator for separation of white blood cells, or specific cell types, from red blood cells starting with whole blood; and PCRopsis Concentrator, which concentrates DNA, proteins and cells within five minutes without the need for equipment.