Company Announcements Empire Genomics announced in January the acquisition of ID Labs, a molecular diagnostics–reagent firm. StoneCalibre announced that its portfolio company, Anatrace, acquired Microlytic, a provider of solutions for soluble protein crystallization, in January. The companies partnered in 2014 to develop and commercialize Analytic, a brand targeted at membrane-protein researchers. Exiqon 2014 sales grew […]
Company Announcements Biolin Scientific 2014 revenues grew 9.1% to SEK 215 million ($31.3 million). EBITA rose 52.4% to SEK 32 million ($5 million). Spectris disclosed in its 2014 financial filing that it acquired MicroCal Biosensors (see IBO 6/15/14) for £28.7 million ($47.0 million) and Affinity Biosensors for £9.6 million ($16 million), including £0.7 million ($1.1 […]
Company Announcements In December 2015, Novasep opened an office in Bangkok, Thailand. In February, ChromaCon acquired an exclusive license to Synthetic Fermentation Technology from Professor Jeffrey Bode and colleagues at ETH-Zürich and Nagoya University for generating highly stable affinity binders as reagents and for other diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Product Introductions Biotage introduced the SNAP […]
Company Announcements Arrayit sold its Avant Diagnostics subsidiary to American Liberty Petroleum in December 2014. Fluidic Analytics announced in January that it raised $2.4 million in a Series A financing. The company has developed a chip-based technology for characterizing proteins’ sizes and concentrations. Toxic Reports announced it January the acquisition of the assets of PathoGenetix […]
Company Announcements Eurocontrol announced that its letter of intent to acquire Austin Automation and Instrumentation (see IBO 11/30/14) expired as of December 31, 2014. Austin will continue to distribute the products of Xenemetrix, a Eurocontrol subsidiary, in the US and Asia. Anton Paar announced that it will integrate DECTRIS’s EIGER R 1 M detection into […]
Company Announcements In January, Agilent Technologies named Alacris Theranostics as an Agilent Certified Service Provider for target enrichment. PreAnalytiX, NuGEN Technologies and RUCDR Infinite Biologics partnered to validate an end-to-end workflow for the reproducible collection and processing of whole blood for RNA-Seq in clinical studies. In February, Japan’s Quantum Biosystems announced that it raised ¥2.4 […]
Company Announcements Aqua Metrology Systems, a provider of on-line trihalomethane monitoring for drinking-water applications, acquired TraceDetect, a trace-metals–analysis and –monitoring equipment company, in December 2014. Finesse Solutions opened an office in Shanghai, China, in January. In February, Dutch firm microLAN announced the acquisition of Austria-based mbOnline, enabling microLAN to offer a full range of fully […]
Company Announcements BioMérieux 2014 Industrial Applications revenue declined 0.9%, up 0.8% on a like-for-like basis, to €327 million ($436 million) to represent 19% of sales. Sales for Industrial Applications rose in all regions except China. R&D-related revenue was flat at €7 million ($9 million). GE Healthcare announced on its quarterly conference call that 2014 Life […]
Company Announcements Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Ottica-CNR and Planetary Emissions Management announced in December 2014 that they are developing a portable system based on the saturated-absorption cavity ring-down method for measurement of atmospheric radiocarbon dioxide. In January, B&W Tek opened an office in Taipei, Taiwan, its fifth international office. In February, Datacolor announced that it […]
Company Announcements ACEA Biosciences and Hurel entered into a technology and marketing alliance in October 2014. Hurel cocultures of primary cryopreserved hepatocytes will be made to order in ACEA’s xCELLigence microtiter E-Plates. Seahorse Bioscience and Volpi announced in November 2014 a liaison to develop and manufacture optical modules for the Seahorse XF Extracellular Flux Analyzer. […]
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