France-based Polyplus is a provider of innovative upstream technologies for cell and gene therapies Polyplus’ transfection reagents and plasmids are key components in the manufacturing of viral vectors Agreed purchase price of approximately 2.4 billion euros Aubagne — Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has signed an agreement to […]
Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) hereby announces that the closing date of the transfer of all shares of Evident Corporation, a specified subsidiary of Olympus, to K.K. BCJ-66, a special purpose company indirectly owned by funds advised by Bain Capital Private Equity, LP (together with its affiliates, “Bain Capital”) (the “Transfer”) has been scheduled for April 3, […]
Tokyo — Evident Corporation (“Evident”) announces that the closing date of the transfer of all shares of Evident, a specified subsidiary of Olympus, to K.K. BCJ-66, a special purpose company indirectly owned by funds advised by Bain Capital Private Equity, LP (together with its affiliates, “Bain Capital”) has been scheduled for April 3, 2023. Reasons for […]
Calibre Scientific Acquires SciQuip, a UK Provider of Scientific Equipment, Supplies and Services LOS ANGELES, CA — Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of SciQuip Ltd, a UK based provider of scientific equipment, laboratory supplies and services to customers in the research, university, hospital and biopharma sectors. SciQuip marks Calibre Scientific’s 12th acquisition […]
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading investment banking and financial advisory firm, is pleased to announce the sale of lino Biotech, a leading biosensor company and the world’s only provider of Focal Molography, to Miltenyi Biotec, a global biotech company based in Germany. BGL’s Diagnostics, Research Tools & Medical Devices investment banking […]
Today, LGC announced the acquisition of Lipomed AG’s reference materials business including standards with drugs of abuse and toxicology applications, and thus greatly complementing LGC’s reference standards offering. Lipomed Reference Standards is a leading manufacturer and supplier of analytical reference standards with ISO/IEC 17025 accreditations for testing and ISO 17034 accreditation for production of reference […]
Joint venture in the field of particle analysis As of April, the joint venture company NEXOPART will manage all laboratory-relevant products of Haver & Boecker and the entire air jet sieve business of Hosokawa Alpine under one roof. NEXOPART will be created with 50 percent each from the two renowned parent companies. On 01.04.2023, the […]
PhenomeX to begin trading under symbol (NASDAQ: CELL) EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a life sciences tools company, today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of IsoPlexis Corporation (Nasdaq: ISO), a company empowering labs to leverage the cells and proteome changing the course of human health. The newly combined […]
Significant value unlocked for Enzo shareholders with continued focus on remaining businesses. FARMINGDALE, NY — Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) announced today that it has entered into an agreement for Labcorp (NYSE: LH) to acquire the assets of Enzo’s Clinical Laboratory division (Enzo Clinical Labs). The transaction between two leading global life sciences companies follows several […]
INTEGRA Biosciences is delighted to announce that it has acquired Miroculus, a biotechnology specialist focused on developing hands-off automation solutions for next generation sequencing (NGS) protocols. This will allow INTEGRA to expand its product range for library preparation, offering significant time savings to academic, research and diagnostics laboratories using NGS and, ultimately, accelerating discovery in […]
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