Sample Preparation

Company Announcements

In October, Arcis Biotechnology, a nucleic acid sample preparation solution provider, closed a £1.25 million ($1.64 million) investment round and a decision to overfund by an additional £0.5 million ($0.7 million), via specialist life sciences equity crowdfunding platform Capital Cell.

Arcis Biotechnology signed a technology access agreement in October with Teleflex for the development of a new technology.

In November, Pressure BioSciences appointed Dr. Bradford A. Young as senior vice president and CCO. Prior positions include founder and CEO of biotechnology firm AddisonField.

Metrohm Australia announced in November that it is the exclusive distributor of Milestone’s microwave technology in Australia.

 

Product Introductions

In November, CEM introduced the MARSXpress Disposable Liners for its MARS 6 microwave digestion systems. The liners eliminate the need to clean the digestion vessel between runs.

 

Sales and Orders of Note

In September, biotech firm Genentech licensed Cell Signaling Technology’s PTMScan technology for discovery proteomics research. CST PTMScan technology is an immunoaffinity enrichment method for the discovery of hundreds to thousands of novel sites of post-translational modifications.

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