Wetzlar, Germany and St. Louis, MO 5/14/08—Leica Microsystems, a Danaher company, has acquired the assets of Coretech Holdings and McCormick Scientific for an undisclosed amount. Coretech is a provider of instruments, reagents and consumables for clinical and research histopathology laboratories. Coretech has joined Leica Biosystems and its CEO Doug Martin has become vice president and […]
Abingdon, UK 5/28/08—Oxford Instruments has acquired Link Analytical AB from its owner and manager, Anna Otterstrom, for an initial cash payment of £0.6 million ($1.2 million) and a cash earn-out of up to £0.6 million payable over three years. Link Analytical AB is a Scandinavian distributor of electron microscopy products, including Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis’s products. […]
Basel, Switzerland 5/27/08—Lonza has acquired amaxa, a supplier of nucleic acid transfection systems and consumables, for an undisclosed amount. Amaxa will join the Cell Discovery business of Lonza Bioscience and its headquarters in Cologne, Germany, will become a new product development site for the Cell Discovery business. “With this acquisition Lonza further strengthens its position […]
Madison, WI 5/30/08—Molecular diagnostics company Third Wave Technologies has agreed to acquire Stratagene’s Full Velocity patents and patent applications from Agilent Technologies. The Full Velocity patents cover quantitative PCR and quantitative real-time PCR chemistries. “Third Wave’s strategic acquisition of the Full Velocity patents cements an integral part of our clinical menu expansion plans and provides […]
Washington, DC 5/29/08—ICx Technologies has acquired S3I for approximately $5.3 million and potential earn-out payments. S3I is the developer of the Instantaneous Bioaerosol Analyzer and Collector sensor for the detection of biological threats.
Issaquah, WA 5/5/08—Applied Precision LLC has been sold to its management team and Telegraph Hill Partners, effective April 29. The new company, Applied Precision, Inc., will continue to offer its DeltaVision microscopy-based imaging products as well as OEM products, including the arrayWoRx scanner platform and precision control solutions. CEO and Chairman Ron Seubert will remain, […]
New York, NY 5/9/08—Enzo Biochem has acquired BIOMOL International for $15 million in cash, $3 million in unregistered stock, and earn outs over two year. BIOMOL is a provider of more than 3,300 products for the areas of signal transduction, lipid research, apoptosis, neuroscience and drug discovery with a research focus in functional proteomics. Based […]
Palo Alto, CA 4/13/08—Varian’s Polymer Laboratories business has acquired the assets and products of Precision Detectors. Financial details were not provided. Precision Detectors manufactures laser light scattering detectors for use with HPLC, gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and size exclusion chromatography systems. “Polymer Laboratories have used light scattering detectors from Precision Detectors for many years in […]
Franklin Lakes, NJ 5/13/08—Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) have acquired all of the outstanding stock of Cytopeia. Based in Seattle, Washington, Cytopeia develops and markets flow cytometry cell sorting instruments, including the Influx cell sorter. Financial terms were not disclosed. “This strategic acquisition brings new technologies and capabilities that will enhance BD’s ability to address […]
Norwalk, CT 5/9/08—By July 1, Celera will separate from Applera by means of a redemption of all the outstanding shares of the Celera tracking stock (see IBO 2/29/08). Celera will list on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
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