Company Announcements New Zealand–based ZyGEM, a provider of enzyme-based reagents, opened its US headquarters in Solana Beach, California, in January. Invitrogen was named the exclusive provider of fluorescent miRNA microarray labeling kits using Genispheres’ 3DNA dendrimer signal amplification technology. Sigma-Aldrich and MorphoSys AG will design, produce and distribute unique recombinant antibodies. In February, Exiqon A/S […]

Company Announcements Febit partnered with Prognosys Biosciences to offer a new Genome-to-Array Service. Febit appointed Michelle Lyles, PhD, to the new position of vice president, Marketing and Sales, in March. Previously, she was director of Sales at Sigma-Aldrich’s Research Biotechnology Business Unit. Transgenomic appointed David P. Pauluzzi, a consultant at Water Street Healthcare Partners, to […]

Atomic force microscopy’s (AFM) advent at the start of the semiconductor boom provided the technology an introduction into the private sector, but AFM’s potential is still being discovered. Park Systems specializes in AFM systems for research and industrial applications. AFM both measures and provides an image of a sample’s surface with subnanometer resolution by running […]

Company Announcements Crosslinks BV joined InforSense’s Open Partner Network. LabWare’s 2007 revenues increased over 14% to $70 million and the company signed over 75 new customers. CAMO Software AS opened an Australian office in Sydney in March. Symyx Technologies joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance. Agilent will distribute an embedded version of Accelrys’ SciTegic Pipeline Pilot […]

Company Announcements In February, Covidien announced that it plans to divest its Specialty Chemical division, which includes the Mallinckrodt Baker laboratory chemicals business. In fiscal 2007, Specialty Chemicals revenue totaled $422 million. The company expects to complete the sale by year end. Ace Glass signed a multiyear agreement with VWR to become a core supplier […]

In the first quarter of 2008, revenues for IBO’s Laboratory Instrument Sales Index grew 11.4% to $4,557 million. Operating profit jumped 14.3% to $758 million, and operating margin climbed 40 basis points to 16.6% of sales. Acquisitions and favorable currency effects continue to positively impact revenue growth and operating results, particularly for companies such as […]

Company Announcements Partec GmbH opened a North American office in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, in January. Nikon Instruments opened a cellular imaging center at France’s National Center for Scientific Research. It is the seventh such center set up by Nikon. In January, Leica Microsystems acquired Cell Analysis, a developer of imaging software for histopathology. In […]

Company Announcements In 2007, ThalesNano opened a UK subsidiary and signed distribution agreement for Scandinavia, Italy and India. ThalesNano announced a collaboration for flow/microwave chemistry research with the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Microwave Chemistry at Karl Franzens University in Austria and with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. PolyGen named Blue Lion Biotech its […]

Company Announcements Luminex and Tyson Foods are collaborating to develop food-safety and animal-health tests. In February, Invitrogen expanded its license and supply agreement with Luminex, extending the lifetime of the license and providing it with access to next-generation multiplex detection platforms. Invitrogen offers more than 200 assays based on Luminex’s xMAP Technology. In February, Sigma-Aldrich […]

This month, the markets were extremely resilient, as they shrugged off profuse negative economic data to finish the month in positive territory. For the first time since October 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ all finished higher, improving 4.5%, 4.8% and 5.9%, respectively. Investors seemed primarily focused on several positive earnings […]