Santa Clara, CA and Billerica, MA 9/9/15—Agilent Technologies has definitively agreed to acquire Seahorse Bioscience for $235 million in cash. Seahorse provides instruments and assay kits for measuring cell metabolism and bioenergetics. Founded in 2001 and employing nearly 200 people, Seahorse is expected to generate $49 million in fiscal 2015 revenues. “Seahorse Bioscience’s unique technology […]
Rochester, NY 8/24/15—Transcat, a publicly held provider of accredited calibration and compliance services, has acquired Anmar Metrology for an undisclosed amount. Anmar provides custom calibration and repair solutions to multiple industries, including life science. “The acquisition of Anmar is consistent with our strategy to strengthen our geographic coverage and enhance our current service platform in […]
Lansing, MI 8/27/15—Neogen has purchased UK-based Lab M, a developer, manufacturer and supplier of microbiological culture media and diagnostics systems for the food, water, industrial and clinical markets, for an undisclosed amount. “Lab M’s prepared media is a new product line for us, and its patents and licenses will greatly enhance our efforts to develop […]
Washington, DC 8/24/15—Life science technology company RainDance Technologies has withdrawn its SEC registration statement for an IPO, citing market conditions. The company, which provides digital PCR and NGS sample preparation technologies, filed to go public earlier this year (see IBO 3/15/15).
Franklin Lakes, NJ 8/25/15—BD Life Sciences, part of Becton, Dickinson, has acquired Cellular Research for an undisclosed amount. Cellular Research develops products for massively parallel single-cell genetic analysis. Its Molecular Indexing technology measures gene expression profiles in single cells. “The acquisition of Cellular Research, combined with our existing cell sorting technology, will provide our customers […]
Pleasanton, CA 8/24/15; Cambridgeshire, UK 8/24/15—Roche has definitively agreed to acquire from Lumora products associated with Heat Elution technology for nucleic acid purification of multiple sample types, including FFPE tumor samples. According to Roche, Lumora’s technology simplifies nucleic acid isolation, takes only minutes and can be used with a variety of samples types. “Lumora’s Heat […]
Basel, Switzerland 8/19/15—Roche has agreed to acquire Kapa Biosystems for an undisclosed amount. US-based Kapa provides life science reagents for NGS and real-time PCR applications, including enzymes such as novel DNA polymerases. Roche stated that Kapa’s protein engineering technology is customizable, generates large numbers of variants and can rapidly provide enzymes with tailored performance for […]
Susteren, Netherlands 7/13/15—Research reagent firm Nordic-MUbio has acquired the antibody and protein assets of US-based Brighter Ideas for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition includes the only source of antibodies against native Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (GFP). “Citations of GFP remain at a very high level since it was first described in 1994 as it […]
West Chester, PA 8/4/15—Chiral Technologies, a DAICEL company and provider of enantioselective chromatography, has acquired the assets of Diffinity Genomics for an undisclosed amount. Diffinity Genomics supplies the RapidTip technology for single-step rapid purification of amplified DNA fragments. ”The innovative, patented purification technology from Diffinity was a perfect choice for our expansion in the bio-separation/purification […]
Jena, Germany 8/7/15—Measurement firm Endress+Hauser has announced that following a voluntary tender offer beginning July 9, it has acquired 95% of Analytik Jena (see IBO 9/30/13) at a price of €14 ($15 = €0.91 = $1) per share, as previously planned. “Our aim is still the complete takeover of Analytik Jena,” stated Dr. Heiner Zehntner, […]
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