Company Announcements INFICON fourth quarter 2014 Emergency Response & Security sales rose 23.1% to $13.3 million. In 2014, segment sales grew 32.0% to $35.9 million to account for 12% of revenues, due largely to government spending in North America. First quarter segment revenue declined 55.7% to $3.9 million. In February, Alpha MOS announced the creation […]
Company Announcements Half-year sales for Abcam rose 7.7%, 13.8% in constant currency, to £66.7 million ($107.6 million) (see IBO 3/31/15). Product sales grew 10.4%, 16.7% excluding currency, to £62.7 million ($101.2 million). Sales of core and RabMAb primary antibodies grew 13.3% and 19.4% excluding currency to make up 68% and 15% of Product revenue, respectively. […]
Company Announcements In March, Qlucore partnered with TATAA Biocenter, which will use Qlucore’s Omics Explorer Software for providing NGS data analysis and for training courses. Illumina formed a collaboration with Merck Serono to develop a universal NGS-based oncology diagnostic. The assays will be used to detect and measure multiple variants simultaneously to support clinical trials. […]
Company Announcements PicoQuant entered into an agreement with the Max Planck Society and the German Cancer Center to use gated STED (stimulated emission depletion) technology in its MicroTime 200 STED time-resolved confocal microscope for increased photostability and live-cell capability. In February, FEI and the Tsinghua University Branch of National Center for Protein Sciences Beijing announced […]
Company Announcements Dassault Systèms announced that 2014 revenue for its BIOVIA brand (formerly Accelrys) increased around 5% excluding currency effects. New license revenue rose more than 20% excluding currency effects. GenoLogics opened a new office in Redwood City, California, in February. Dotmatics joined the Pistoia Alliance. In March, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount […]
Company Announcements Under a commercial supply agreement announced in February, MRM Proteomics granted Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) exclusive rights to its PeptiQuant kits for quantitative proteomics, including its Stable Isotope Standards as part of the kits, which CIL will distribute. The first Biomarker Assessment Kit allows for 76 proteins to be quantitated in a single […]
Company Announcements Cepheid 2014 Non-Clinical revenue declined 29.9% to $29.0 million, or 6% of total revenues, primarily due to lower sales of anthrax test cartridges. North America accounted for 86% of Non-Clinical sales. Non-Clinical revenue is expected to decline again this year. WaferGen Bio-systems entered into a research collaboration with the Familial Breast Cancer Research […]
Company Announcements In January, Shimadzu opened a subsidiary in Malaysia with 44 employees. The company also plans to establish a manufacturing facility for Analytical and Measuring Instruments and an applications lab at the location. The new plant is expected to begin operation in December 2016. Local distributors will still be utilized for XRF spectrometers, optical […]
Company Announcements In February, LifeMap Sciences announced a commercial partnership agreement with Toldot Genomics involving their respective GeneCards Suite and next-generation sequencing (NGS) data-analysis capabilities. BD Life Sciences and Cellular Research announced the joint promotion of their respective BD FACS single-cell sorter and Precise assays for single-cell sequencing. In February, Illumina received regulatory approval from […]
Company Announcements In March, Freeslate announced a partnership with the Center for Intelligent Research in Crystal Engineering (CIRCE), a CRO, for utilization of CIRCE’s predictive modeling for solid-state challenges. Tecan proposed Lars Holmqvist as a new Board member, replacing Erik Walldén. Most recently, he was senior vice president, and president of Life Sciences and Diagnostics […]
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