Waltham, MA 11/26/13; Brussels, Belgium 11/26/13—The European Commission (EC) has cleared the merger of Thermo Fisher Scientific and Life Technologies (see IBO 4/15/13) with conditions. The EC found that the merger risked reduced competition in the European Economic Area with respect to the production and supply of media and sera for cell culture, gene silencing […]
San Diego, CA 11/11/13—Illumina has named Francis deSouza president. He will begin his position in December. Mr. deSouze currently serves as president of Products & Services at Symantec.
Sarasota, FL 10/28/13; Houston, TX 11/6/13—PAC, a Roper Industries company, has acquired Advanced Sensors, a supplier of oil-in-water process analyzers, for £34 million ($55 million = £0.62 = $1). Advanced Sensors’ analyzers utilize ultrasonics, fluorescence, video microscopy, optical spectrometry and MS to ensure process and environmental control and offer early warning indicators of leaks and […]
Reinach, Switzerland 10/31/23; Jena, Germany 11/14/13—Analytik Jena announced that Endress+Hauser, which currently holds 47% of the company’s shares, has concluded an option agreement giving it the right to purchase an additional 28% stake through the purchase of the shares owned by the German state of Thuringia, which controls 18%, and the shares held by CEO […]
London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13—Research tools firm Oxford Instruments has announced it is in discussions to acquire publicly held Andor Technology, a provider of scientific cameras, microscope systems and analytical software, stating that the acquisition would add to its Nano-Bio business. Oxford has made an indicative offer of […]
New Castle, DE 9/30/13—TA Instruments, a Waters company, has acquired German firm Scarabaeus Mess- und Produktionstechnik for an undisclosed amount. Scarabaeus manufactures instrumentation and software for physical property measurements of rubber and rubber processing. “This market is a natural fit for TA Instruments. We have existing expertise and a large customer base using thermal analysis […]
Middleton, WI 10/11/13—Gilson, a supplier of manual and automated liquid sample management products, has acquired Armen, a provider of manual preparative chromatography based on HPLC and centrifugal partition chromatography, also known as counter current chromatography (CCC). “Armen brings to Gilson their CCC technology, which is capable of quick and cost effective purification of natural, raw […]
Venlo, The Netherlands 10/29/13—QIAGEN has announced the purchase of bioinformatics company CLC bio, which specializes in next generation sequencing (NGS), for an undisclosed amount. CLC bio’s products include the CLC Genomics Workbench for analyzing, comparing and visualizing NGS data and the CLC Genomics Service, an enterprise-level infrastructure and analysis backbone for NGS data analysis. “The […]
San Diego, CA 10/28/13; Washington, DC 10/29/13—Illumina has acquired NextBio, a provider of clinical and genomics informatics, for an undisclosed amount. NextBio’s platforms aggregate and analyze large quantities of phenotypic and genomic data for research and clinical applications. “The combination of Illumina’s BaseSpace cloud computing environment for next generation sequencing with NextBio’s platform for integrating […]
Branford, CT 10/3/13—According to multiple media reports, Roche will close its 454 Life Sciences subsidiary, which provides DNA sequencers. The New Haven Register reported that the company will shut down by the end of 2015. Manufacturing will cease in 2015 and the sequencers will be phased-out by mid-2016, at which time the company will no […]
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