Bridgewater, NJ 6/30/09; Carlsbad, CA 6/30/09—LabVantage Solutions, developer of the SAPPHIRE LIMS, has agreed to acquire the SQL*LIMS business from Applied Biosystems, a unit of Life Technologies, for an undisclosed amount. The SQL*LIMS is an enterprise LIMS. LabVantage will continue to support SQL*LIMS product and customers. “While the LIMS business is an important asset for […]
Yellow Springs, OH 6/10/09—YSI has acquired Design Analysis Associates (DAA), which designs and markets equipment that measures, records and telemeters hydrological data. Terms were not disclosed. “Because we share many of the same customers in the water monitoring market, this acquisition is extremely synergistic,” said Rick Omlor, YSI CEO and president. The Fletcher family, which […]
Waltham, MA 6/11/09—PerkinElmer has announced a comarketing agreement with Rigaku Americas, a supplier of X-ray spectrometry, X-ray diffraction and X-ray optics. Under the agreement, the companies will share information and provide a single point of contact for PerkinElmer’s atomic spectroscopy solutions, which include atomic absorption spectrometers, ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma–Optical Emission Spectroscopy), ICP-MS and Rigaku […]
Hillsboro, OR 6/15/09—FEI has acquired JKTech’s Mineral Liberation Analysis (MLA) business for AUD 5 million ($4 million). JKTech is the technology transfer company for the University of Queensland’s Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Center and other Centers of the Sustainable Minerals Institute. MLA technology utilizes scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) to perform automated, targeted mineralogical analysis using […]
San Diego, CA 6/10/09—Illumina has introduced a service program offering human genome sequencing with complete coverage for consumers at a price of $48,000. The service will be performed at Illumina’s CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) certified laboratory. Illumina is also establishing a protocol, infrastructure and community for large-scale adoption of personal genome sequencing, including the […]
Redmond, WA 6/1/09—Microsoft has agreed to acquire certain assets of Rosetta Biosoftware from Merck & Co. Microsoft will incorporate the genetic, genomic, metabolomic and proteomic data management software into its Amalga Life Sciences platform for translational research. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft and Merck will also form a strategic relationship, under which […]
Washington, DC 5/20/09; San Jose, CA 5/6/09—The US District Court for the Northern District of California has preliminarily approved a settlement agreement between Affymetrix and shareholders in a 2006 shareholder derivative action brought against company officers. Shareholder derivative actions are lawsuits brought by shareholders against a company’s management for the violation of fiduciary duties. Three […]
Cambridge, England 5/21/09—Grant Instruments, a manufacturer of scientific, life science and data acquisition products, has purchased the assets and intellectual property of Accsense for an undisclosed amount. Accsense designs remote monitoring systems using self-healing mesh network technology. “We are seeing increased demand for wireless sensor solutions that are quick to deploy, easy to use and […]
Portola Valley, CA 5/6/09; Oakland, CA 5/6/09—Spectros, a provider of molecular sensing and imaging devices, has filed a patent infringement suit against Thermo Fisher Scientific in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Spectros alleges fluorospectrometers sold by Thermo, including the Nanodrop 3300, infringe US Patent No. 6,711,426 (Spectroscopy Illuminator with Improved […]
Uppsala, Sweden and Stamford, CT 5/28/09—GE Healthcare has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with FUJIFILM for the development, manufacture and supply of advanced biomolecular imaging systems to be sold under the GE brand. “Fujifilm’s high quality technology platforms fit well with our proprietary labeling technologies and the adjacent fields in the imaging workflow that […]
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