Company Announcements Bigneat, a UK-based manufacturer of hoods and enclosures with 50 employees, opened its first US office in October 2014. Huber announced in December 2014 the establishment of a US subsidiary in North Carolina to serve the US, Canada and Mexico. ATCC and LGC agreed to provide proficiency-testing programs to support the food, beverage, […]
Company Announcements ES Cell and GE Healthcare agreed in December 2014 to cross license their respective stem cell patents for the development of cellular assays and models derived from stem cells for use in drug discovery and toxicity screening. SI BIO signed a distribution agreement in January with 2BScientific for the UK and Ireland. Indi […]
Company Announcements Bruker announced in November 2014 that Techcomp will continue to manufacture the SCION GC and GC single-quadrupole MS product lines it acquired from Bruker (see IBO 10/15/14) in California. Bruker will continue to provide service and support for the product lines. Techcomp has a deferred option to acquire the service business in the […]
Company Announcements JEOL announced in its fiscal 2014 annual report that it acquired a stake in JEOL RESONANCE in December 2013 and formed a subsidiary. JEOL France donated a 400 MHz NMR to France’s International Bureau of Weights and Measures for its new lab as part of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance: Metrology […]
Company Announcements Eppendorf licensed patents covering gradient technology for thermal cyclers to SensoQuest in September 2014. Rubicon Genomics named new distributors in October 2014: CliniSciences for France, Spain and North Africa; Nerliens Meszansky for Norway; Shanghai Nanodigmnio Biotechnology for China; and GeneLabs Life Science for Taiwan. Rubicon Genomics 2014 sales grew 28%. RainDance Technologies named […]
Company Announcements Rosario National University in Argentina opened the Nikon International Center for Microscopy and Excellence in Latin America in December 2014, the first such site in Latin America. JPK Instruments opened its first US-based offices in Southern California in January. ZEISS sublicensed its Lattice light-sheet microscopy rights to Intelligent Imaging Innovations. ZEISS Microscopy revenue […]
Company Announcements Simulations Plus named John K. Paglia, PhD, associate dean at the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, to its Board in November 2014, replacing Harold Wayne Rosenberger. Under a collaborative agreement, synthetic-biology software firm Genome Compiler integrated DNA2.0’s gene-synthesis services into its design platform. According to a November 2014 report […]
Company Announcements Genomics, a developer of an analytical platform for genomic-sequence data analysis and interpretation, completed a £10.3 million ($16.1 million) fundraising round in November 2014. In December 2014, Tute Genomics, a provider of a cloud-based genome analytics platform, raised $2.3 million in Series A1 funding. Kapa Biosystems expanded its partnership with Roche NimbleGen to […]
Product Introductions Metrohm launched in September 2014 the 912 conductometer, 913 pH Meter and 914 pH/conductometer for lab and field use. Hanna Instruments released in October 2014 the HALO pH probe with Bluetooth Smart technology. In November 2014, Mettler-Toledo launched the Seven2Go portable pH meter for one-handed operation. Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced in December 2014 […]
Company Announcements Horizon Discovery named Tegent Scientific as its exclusive distributor for China, Hong Kong and Vietnam. Alpaqua Engineering signed a distribution agreement in October 2014 with NimaGen for the EU and certain neighboring countries for magnet plates and accessories. Pressure BioSciences signed a three-year, exclusive distribution agreement with Powertech Technology for China. AutoGen named […]
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