Company Announcements In April, IDBS integrated its ELN for life sciences with Neural ID’s Intelligent Waveform Solution for automated biosignal recognition and analysis. IDBS partnered with Rancho Biosciences in April, enabling the companies to provide mutual customers with manual data-curation services for IDBS’s E-WorkBook products in the translational and clinical-research arenas. Ayasdi announced in April […]

FOSS 2013 sales rose 1.2%, 6% organically, to DKK 1,760 million ($313 million) (see IBO 3/15/14). Nanounity agreed to distribute HybriScan Technologies’ Raman spectrometers, which are designed for integration with SEMs. In April, Trinean entered into a manufacturing and supply agreement with Sony DADC for the production of disposables for storage and microcuvette analysis. Product […]

Company Announcements Clontech Laboratories, a subsidiary of Takara Bio, partnered with Vectalys in May to combine its Living Colors fluorescent protein and Tet-On 3G technologies with Vectalys’s expertise in providing ready-to-use lentiviral particles as vectors for gene delivery. The initial product offering will include somatic-cell–reprogramming kits used to generate iPSCs. Horizon Discovery entered into a […]

Company Announcements Ibidi announced in March a collaboration with SiMPore to develop live-cell imaging tools combining their respective Cell Biochips and G-Flat Microporous Glass Membranes to create bio-slides. Sysmex entered into a clinical-research, licensing and joint-development agreement with Merck Millipore to use Millipore’s imaging flow cytometry technology for the creation of diagnostic tools for hematologic […]

Company Announcements Freiberg Instruments, a provider of inline metrology solutions, announced in January the acquisition of German firm Magnettech, a supplier of electron spin resonance (ESR) systems. Dr. Kay Dornich succeeded Dr. Eberhard Friese as CEO, but Dr. Friese will remain with the company. More than 300 of Magnettech’s MS 400 ESR/EPR systems are installed […]

Company Announcements Repligen’s 2013 Bioprocessing Product sales increased 13.5% to $47.5 million to make up 70% of total revenues. Novasep’s 2013 Synthesis sales grew 5.2% to €155.1 million ($206.8 million) to make up 49% of revenues. In April, FloDesign Sonics, a developer of core acoustic separation technology for bioprocessing, closed a $10 million Series A […]

Company Announcements Personal Genomics announced in April an exclusive sales alliance for Knome’s knoSYS platform in Italy. Under a distribution agreement, Bina Technologies will include runtime licenses for Appistry’s Genome Analysis Toolkit and Cancer Genome Analysis Suite analysis tools as part of its Bina Analytical genomics platform. First quarter Pacific Biosciences sales soared 108.7% to […]

Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific sold Separation Technology, a manufacturer of IVD devices for the hematology-testing market, to EKF Diagnostics for $4.0 million in March. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a memorandum of understanding in May with the National University of Singapore to develop a strategic alliance to advance basic and applied research. For up to […]

Product Introductions Sensorex launched the SAM-1 Smart Aqua Meter in March, which measures and records pH, ORP or conductivity values. The SAM-1 plugs into the headphone jack of a smartphone or tablet and connects to Sensorex sensors. In April, Mettler-Toledo introduced version 2 of the SevenExcellence Series of electrochemical benchtop instruments, which now include DO […]