Company Announcements Illumina partnered with Genpathway to provide whole-genome ChIP sequencing services. Illumina named its first certified genetic analysis service provider (CSPro) in Japan, Mitsubishi Chemical Safety Institute, and its first German CSPro, LIFE & BRAIN. Illumina named Fredrick Clerie vice president, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. He was previously vice president of Global Quality […]
Company Announcements Kromasil announced earlier this year that it stopped selling analytical bulk material to independent column packers and is now only using a network of distributors. In September, Chromatide partnered with Kromasil, an Akzo Nobel brand, to develop silica-based HPLC media with an emphasis in the area of chiral purification. YMC opened an office […]
Company Announcements In April, FOSS A/S opened a sales subsidiary in India. It is headquartered in Mumbai with four branch offices and 15 employees. FOSS’s subagent Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments will provide service for the dairy industry. CDEX announced three new distributors: Virtus Trading for Kuwait; GRIFOLS International for Spain, Portugal and Italy; and EURAF […]
Company Announcements STARLIMS Australasia, which serves Australian and New Zealand, was established as a private company. STARLIMS established direct operations in Europe in August, following the May acquisition of its UK partner. Under a collaborative agreement, Thermo Fisher Scientific is bundling and selling NextDocs’ Document and Compliance Suite, an enterprise document, quality and compliance management […]
Company Announcements Protein Discovery closed a $10 million series C round of equity financing led by Santé Ventures. Digilab Genomic Solutions’ Hummingbird Plus parallel pipetting instrument for low-volume applications will be manufactured by CyBio AG using its Hummingbird dispensing heads and cassettes and CyBio’s CyBi-Well automation platform. BioTrove named custom lab automation provider Synchron Lab […]
Company Announcements Syngene appointed Varelas SA as its Greek distributor in July. Applied Biosystems added InteRNA Genomics BV and Biotique Systems to its Software Development Community for the SOLiD System. In July, in vivo imaging firm VisEn Medical received $3.5 million in venture debt financing from GE Healthcare Financial Services. Genomic Vision, which is developing […]
Company Announcements YSI named Dr. Edward King vice president of R&D and chief technology officer in June. In July, PerkinElmer named Alan Fletcher, PhD, vice president of business development for the Life and Analytical Sciences business with the responsibility for growing the Bio-discovery business. He joined the company from GE Healthcare. GE appointed John Dineen, […]
Company Announcements ICx Technologies forecasts 2008 sales of $177–$184 million and an adjusted EBITDA loss of $2–$7 million. In 2007, revenues increased 51% to $136.2 million and the adjusted EBITDA loss was $16.0 million, down from $23.8 million (see IBO 3/31/08). The Detection Division’s revenue in 2007 rose 79% to $77.2 million and the Division’s […]
Company Announcements The Beijing Genome Institute and PentaBase ApS are developing real-time PCR kits for the detection of clinical biomarkers. Roche Diagnostics granted a license to BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH for the development, production and sale of kits for food and GMO analysis using the LightCycler instrument with melting curve analysis technology. Merck KGaA began selling […]
Company Announcements In June, LifeSpan BioScience announced plans to release 20,000 immunohistochemistry-validated reagent antibodies over the next four years. It currently offers 37,000 reagent antibodies. Embryome Sciences entered into a manufacturing and distribution agreement with Lifeline Cell Technology to produce standardized human and animal progenitor cell lines and corresponding reagents. Embryome Sciences acquired an exclusive […]
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