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 Affymetrix extended its Collaborations in Cancer Research Program to North America, forming alliances with 15 cancer researchers. Affymetrix named AltheaDx as an authorized service provider. Thermo Fisher Scientific collaborated with protein microarray firm Gentel Biosciences to shift microarrays to a new 96-well configuration and ELISA-like format. Thermo sells the product under the SmartPlex […]
Company Announcements In June, BioForce Nanosciences named NanoAndMore a US distributor. Cogenics, Roche’s 454 Life Sciences and Limagrain Verneuil entered into a collaborative agreement to develop solutions for large-scale crop SNP discovery, under which 454 will sequence 2GB of the wheat genome. Caliper Life Sciences gained limited access to certain optical imaging technologies owned by […]
Company Announcements Pharmaceutical Services Corporation (PSC) will offer a complete solution of Geospiza software and PSC’s services to organizations that need to integrate genetic analysis into their manufacturing process. GenoLogics partnered with GenVault to introduce the BioVault Biospecimen Management Software. Simulations Plus and Northeastern University are collaborating to measure solubilities in biorelevent fluids. BIOBASE GmbH […]
Company Announcements Eppendorf UK named Scientific Laboratory Supplies a UK distributor. Brinkmann Instruments began distribution of VELP Scientifica Instruments’ products in the US. Telstar Life Sciences acquired Clean Air Techniek BV, which sells clean air technology for labs and lab products, and PMV BV, which services clean air products, in May. In May, Sigma-Aldrich fully […]
Company Announcements In May, Invitrogen licensed human embryonic stem cell (hESC) patents from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for the development of research tools, giving it the right to work with karyotypically normal hESCs. Agilent acquired a license in May from the Broad Institute to commercialize a method for genome partitioning using Agilent’s Oligo Library […]
Company Announcements Hitachi High-Technologies reported Life Sciences Segment sales for the year ended March 31 increased 3.1% to ¥96.173 billion ($959.9 million), representing 10.2% of company revenues. Biotechnology-related equipment (including LC and spectrophotometers) accounted for 22% of Segment sales, clinical analyzers represented 66% and other products represented 12%. The company announced it is focusing on […]
New money is flowing to US government agencies, following President Bush’s signing of a supplemental funding bill on June 30. The bill allocated $400 million in new funding to four federal agencies: the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ($150 million), the National Science Foundation (NSF) ($62.5 million), the National Air and Space Administration ($62.5 million) […]
Since the end of last year, it has been clear that capital expenditures by the semiconductor industry have been falling significantly. The first half of 2008 has done nothing to mitigate this pessimism and, if anything, the situation has grown more dire than originally expected. This was the general business climate that set the stage […]
Company Announcements Dynisco restructured in March, creating divisions to serve specific market segments, including Plastics, Rubber and Industrial, Oil and Gas, Life Sciences, and Test and Control. Under an OEM agreement, Digital Light will supply REOLOGICA with photocuring accessories. In April, Anton Paar GmbH announced the appointment of Dr. Othmar Ederer, general director of the […]
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