Company Announcements

In September, Denator AB announced an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Scientific & Medical Products for its Stabilizor T1 system.

Life Technologies and febit holding GmbH entered into a strategic comarketing agreement for re-sequencing studies for their respective SOLiD next-generation sequencing system and HybSelect Sequence Capture solution. Febit also became a member of the SOLiD System and TaqMan Service Provider Programs.

Pressure Biosciences and Protein Forest entered into a strategic comarketing/selling and R&D agreement for their respective Pressure Cycling Technology and sample fractionation technology.

Precision System Science acquired a 33% stake in Nippon Pulse Motor’s subsidiary NPS for ¥134.6 million ($1.5 million). NPS is a PSS strategic subcontract partner for manufacturing.

In October, Agilent appointed Ambry Genetics as the first certified service provider for its SureSelect Target Enrichment System.

Agilent announced a comarketing agreement with Life Technologies for its SureSelect Target Enrichment System optimized for the SOLiD Sequencing System.

Product Introductions

Microm Bioresources released the Advance Bio Sample Processor, an autosampler for LC/MS, featuring integrated temperature control and liquid handling.

Sigma-Aldrich Supelco and MIP Technologies AB introduced the SupelMIP (molecularly imprinted polymer) SPE product for the selective extraction of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Dionex launched the AutoTrace 280 system for automated SPE for use with volumes of 20 mL–4 L for the isolation of trace organics in water or aqueous matrices.

Fluidigm introduced the Access Array for support of high-throughput re-sequencing, targeted enrichment, sample barcoding and library preparation for next-generation sequencing using amplicon tagging.

Porvair Filtration released the BioVyon C18 silica columns and microplates for low-volume SPE assays, featuring a high surface-area matrix for control of flow rates.

Agilent launched the SureSelect DNA Capture Array for target enrichment prior to small-scale next-generation sequencing studies.

Agilent released the SureSelect Human All Exon Kit for its in-solution based SureSelect Target Enrichment System.

Febit holding GmbH introduced a human cancer biochip for its HybSelect automated technology for sequence capture.

Roche Applied Science launched the MagNA Pure 96 System for batch processing of up to 96 samples in parallel.