Santa Clara, CA and Penzberg, Germany 11/7/12—Agilent Technologies will be the exclusive provider of continued services to Roche NimbleGen customers as Roche phases out its NimbleGen microarray production and services. Roche and Agilent announced that customers can transition to Agilent arrays with minimal disruption for all applications because of the technologies’ similarities. “Our field service […]
San Diego, CA 11/12/12—Illumina announced that VWR International will distribute its qPCR portfolio, including the Eco Real-Time PCR System and the NuPCR reagents, in the US. “We are very excited to join forces with VWR to accelerate adoption of our qPCR portfolio, particularly into the pharmaceutical and industrial markets where VWR has a strong presence,” […]
Paris, France 10/22/12; Paris France 10/22/12—Publicly held French energy firm AREVA has entered into exclusive negotiations with private equity company Astorg Partners to sell its Canberra radiation measurement business. AREVA is divesting assets in order to reduce debt and finance new investments.
Egham, UK 11/26/12—Spectris has agreed to acquire Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) for $14 million, excluding debt and cash. In addition, a contingent consideration of up to $19 million will be payable based on sales through December 2015. ASD is a provider of NIR instrumentation solutions and application expertise for materials measurement and research. “ASD’s successful […]
Mountain View, CA and Shenzhen, China 9/17/12; Washington, DC 11/13/12; Washington DC, 11/21/12; Washington DC 11/25/12; Washington, DC 11/27/12—Publicly held Complete Genomics, a provider of DNA sequencing services, has rejected an offer by Illumina to acquire the company. On November 20, Illumina submitted a $3.30 per share unsolicited offer for the firm. In September, Complete […]
Santa Clara, CA 11/14/12—Agilent Technologies’ Board of Directors has appointed Ron Nersesian president and COO, effective immediately. “Over the past year as COO, Ron made significant strides in increasing the profitability of our life science and chemical analysis businesses even as we navigated through a difficult economy,” stated Agilent CEO Bill Sullivan.
Radnor, PA 11/2/12—VWR International has purchased Lab3, a distributor of scientific lab supplies headquartered in Bristol, UK. Lab3 is an existing VWR distributor and provides consumables, chemicals, equipment and technical services in the UK. The company also provides custom labeling and kitting services, as well as technical services such as installation, calibration and repair. Financial […]
New York, NY 11/2/12; Carlsbad, CA 11/1/12—Enzo Biochem has announced that a jury in the US Southern District Court in New York City has awarded the company and Yale University $48.6 million in direct infringement penalties after finding that Life Technologies’ sale of capillary electrophoresis systems and reagents from 1998 to 2004 infringed US Patent […]
Waltham, MA and Shanghai, China 11/13/12—PerkinElmer has acquired China-based Shanghai Haoyuan Biotech, an infectious disease diagnostics company, for $38 million in cash and potential future additional consideration. The company supplies molecular infectious disease screening technologies for blood banks and clinical labs in China. The acquisition extends PerkinElmer’s capabilities into nucleic acid blood screening and molecular […]
Carlsbad, CA 11/5/12—Life Technologies has acquired Advanced Microscopy Group (AMG), incorporated as Westover Scientific, a developer of imaging systems for research microscopy, for an undisclosed amount. Life Technologies’ FLoid Cell Imaging Station for fluorescent microscopy is manufactured by AMG. AMG also provides the EVOS range of microscopes, which includes systems that address the tissue culture […]
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