Product Introductions Horiba launched the waterproof Multi Water Quality Checker U-50 Series for on-site measurement of up to 11 water-quality parameters in environmental waters. WTW GmbH released the handheld single-parameter ProfLine Series for pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen (DO) measurements, consisting of three new product families: the 3110 series, 3210 series and 3310 series. YSI […]
Company Announcements Cell Projects entered into a commercial license and development agreement in October 2008 with Queen’s University in Canada, covering several new electroporation technologies for adherent and in situ cell electroporation. Fluxion Biosciences named two new distributors: Labtech International for the UK, Ireland and France, and Westburg BV for Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, […]
Marlborough, MA 1/26/09; San Diego, CA and Ann Arbor, MI 1/26/09; San Diego, CA 1/27/08; San Diego, CA 1/28/09—Sequenom has terminated its bid for diagnostics firm EXACT Sciences (see IBO 1/15/09), following Genzyme’s acquisition of certain intellectual property assets held by EXACT related to the fields of prenatal and reproductive health and three million shares […]
GE Purchases Whatman The acquisition (see IBO 2/15/08) was evidence that GE Life Science is still intent on growing its business. The $713 million purchase was also a testament to the importance of sample preparation products to life science suppliers. Agilent Expands Materials Science Business Four acquisitions this year (see IBO 3/15/08, 6/30/08, 7/15/08) added […]
Company Announcements Shimadzu Scientific Instruments is now distributing SEDERE’s SEDEX 80LT and SEDEX 85LT evaporation light scattering detectors in the US. In September, Thermo Fisher Scientific opened a 12,000-square-foot facility in Reinach, Switzerland, which consolidates the Flux Instruments and Spectronex product lines. In December, MIP Technologies AB entered into a collaboration with sanofi-aventis to develop […]
Company Announcements Alpha Innotech extended its OEM agreement with GE Healthcare, signing a five-year strategic supplier alliance agreement. GWC Technologies appointed Cybeles Life Science as a distributor for Southeast Asia. ForteBio closed $25 million in Series C financing, led by OrbiMed Advisors, in September. Integrated DNA Technologies entered into an exclusive copromotional agreement with 454 […]
Company Announcements Organic revenues for Merck KGaA’s Life Science Solutions business increased 13% in the second quarter and 8.0% in the third quarter. Sigma-Aldrich exclusively licensed boronic acid surrogates for use in Suzuki-Miyaura coupling from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will offer MIDA synthons for sale. The technology enables the efficient construction of […]
Company Announcements FEI and Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry are collaborating on a correlative microscopy solution for the acquisition of TEM images of molecular entities found using optical microscopy techniques. In August, Intellection promoted CFO/COO Chris Staples to CEO. In November, Carl Zeiss opened a subsidiary for its Industrial Metrology business in Istanbul, Turkey, in […]
Company Announcements Alpha MOS acquired Périchrom for €440,000 ($699,283), in July. Périchrom develops and sells laboratory and online GCs and had 2007 sales of €1 million ($1.6 million). Barry S. Howe resigned as CEO and president of Electronic Sensor Technology in July and was replaced by former CEO and current Chairman Dr. Teong Lim. In […]
Company Announcements ScienceServe GmbH agreed to allow Advanced Chemistry Development to regain the right to directly manage sales and support in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. CLC bio became an Illumina Connect partner. CLC bio signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the J. Craig Venter Institute, which includes a multiyear site license. Ariadne Genomics named World […]
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