Company Announcements Accelerated Technology Laboratories partnered with Linko Data Systems, a provider of compliance-tracking software, to integrate their respective Sample Master Pro LIMS and pretreatment software for wastewater clients. Waters and LabKey Software, a provider of open source software, joined the BioIT Alliance in September. In September, Thermo Fisher Scientific began shipping its Proteome Discoverer […]

Company Announcements Invitrogen and the International Regulome Consortium will codevelop tools for stem cell research. Promega will develop fluorescent ligands for its HaloTag fusion proteins to be used with Leica’s TCS stimulated emission depletion super-resolution microscope. Under an exclusive license with the University of Georgia Research Foundation, ArunA Biomedical will commercialize human mesenchymal cells derived […]

Company Announcements Syrris established a subsidiary office in Japan earlier this year. In September, Prosonix, a provider of ultrasonic process chemistry solutions, announced a marketing partnership with Syrris for Prosonix’s Sonolab lab-scale equipment, which employs a transducer-based design. ThalesNano announced in September the closing of an investment of $3.3 million. In October, Micronit Microfluidics, FutureChemistry […]

Company Announcements Bruker’s Advanced Supercon subsidiary hired Thomas M. Rosa, previously CFO at American Superconductor Corporation, as CFO in April. He will also lead newly established business development and customer support operations in the US. Cambridge Isotope Laboratories formed Membrane Receptor Technologies, a collaborative venture with NMR specialist Dr. Stanley Opella, which will provide atomic […]

Company Announcements During fiscal year 2008, Applied Biosystems discontinued the manufacture of the 433A Peptide Synthesis and the Procise Protein Sequencing systems, but will continue to provide support for existing systems for five years. Oxford Nanopore Technologies announced in August an exclusive agreement to develop and commercialize nanopore technologies developed at Harvard University, the University […]

Company Announcements Intellection appointed Beamtech Nordiska AB as its exclusive distributor for Sweden, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH named Dr. Stefan Traeger managing director in June. Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH’s Life Science reorganized into three strategic business units in June: Life Science Research, Clinical Imaging and Nanotechnology. FEI will market and […]

Company Announcements Cambridge Isotope Laboratories acquired the Spectra Stable Isotopes division of Spectra Gases, a subsidiary of Linde Gas, in July. Cambridge Isotope Laboratories agreed to distribute CellFree Sciences’ WEPRO Expression Kits and reagents for cell-free protein production for NMR and MS applications in North America and Europe. Anaspec licensed its HiLytePlus and HiLyte Fluor […]

Company Announcements Caliper Life Sciences is bundling DiscovRx’s cell-based GPCR assays with its LabChip platforms. Amnis named Gene Company as the Chinese distributor of its ImageStream in May. Fluxion Biosciences signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Bucher Biotec AG for Switzerland. Accuri Cytometers licensed a time-limited, customized version of De Novo Software’s FCS Expression software […]