Warminster, PA 6/30/14; Philadelphia, PA 7/2/14—SP Industries, a designer and manufacturer of lab equipment, biological drug–manufacturing solutions and specialty glassware, has acquired Bel-Art Products. Based in New Jersey, Bel-Art provides lab solutions for the scientific, industrial and health care end-markets, including 3,500 products sold under the Scienceware and H+B Instrument brand names. “We are excited […]
Minneapolis, MN 7/2/14—Techne (doing business as Bio-Techne), a developer and manufacturer of purified proteins for research labs, has acquired Novus Biologicals for $60 million in cash. Based in Colorado, Novus is a supplier of outsourced and in-house-developed antibodies and life science research reagents. “We appreciate the fact that customers’ reagent needs change, and Bio-Techne wants […]
New York, NY 6/23/14—Enzo Biochem’s Enzo Life Sciences subsidiary has entered into a settlement agreement with PerkinElmer Health Sciences in a case before the US District Court, Southern District of New York. Under the agreement, PerkinElmer agreed to pay Enzo $7 million in escrow.
Hilden, Germany and Germantown, MD 5/30/14—QIAGEN disclosed as part of an announcement of a codevelopment deal with Eli Lilly and Company for companion diagnostics, that it has acquired PrimeraDx. All PrimeraDx employees have joined QIAGEN. PrimeraDx’s multimodal, multianalyte platform enables the simultaneous single-assay analysis of dozens of DNA and RNA biomarkers, their copy numbers, expression […]
Surrey, UK 6/18/14—Spectris has acquired Canadian company La Corporation Scientifique Claisse, a provider of sample preparation consumables and instruments for atomic spectroscopy analysis, for an undisclosed amount. Claisse had annual revenues ending March 2014 of CAD 13 million ($12 million = CAD 1.05 = $1). Claisse will become part of Spectris’s PANalytical business, which makes […]
Pleasanton, CA 6/26/14—Roche has made a strategic investment in Stratos Genomics and will collaborate with the company on research related to Stratos’s chemistry for single-molecule sequencing of DNA fragments using protein nanopores. The companies will work to develop efficient, low-cost sample preparation methods for DNA Xpandomers, a larger surrogate molecule, and to improve sequencing performance. […]
Minneapolis, MN 6/17/14—Techne (doing business as Bio-Techne), a provider of bioactive tools and resources for research and clinical diagnostics, has agreed to acquire ProteinSimple for $300 million in cash. ProteinSimple develops and commercializes systems and consumables for protein analysis, including products for automated Western blotting. For the 12 months ending May 31, ProteinSimple revenues grew […]
Washington, DC 6/24/14—VWR, an independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, has filed for a public offering of its stock on a US stock exchange (see IBO 5/31/14). Proceeds from the offering will be used to pay down company debt, which totaled $2.8 billion as of March 31. In 2013, revenues grew 1.4% to […]
Newtown, PA 6/6/14—GGA Software Services, a supplier of scientific-informatics services, has been acquired by EPAM Systems, a publicly held provider of product-development and software-engineering solutions, for cash and $10 million in stock. “Not only are we very excited about the significant growth opportunity in the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry verticals, we also see tremendous […]
Bonn, Germany 5/22/14—German firm KonTEM, a developer of phase-contrast technology for TEM, has been acquired by FEI for an undisclosed amount. High-Tech Gründerfonds, an investor in KonTEM, announced the sale. KonTEM’s technology improves image contrast without affecting resolution. KonTEM is a spin-off of the Max Planck Society and the Center for Advanced European Studies and […]
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