Company Announcements MKS Instruments Analytical Solutions Group sales declined 10.3% in 2013 to $56.3 million, or 8% of revenues. In March, MKS Instruments agreed to purchase the assets of Granville-Phillips from Brooks Automation for $87 million in cash. Granville-Phillips provides vacuum measurement and control instruments and had 2013 sales of $28 million. In February, Hobré […]
Company Announcements In the fourth quarter of 2013, PerkinElmer acquired Google Ventures–backed Wingu, a developer of a cloud-based platform for research collaboration. Cambridge Semantics integrated ChemAxon’s search and visualization capabilities into its Anzo software. IDBS and Osthus, a global systems integrator, announced a strategic partnership, which includes development of new integration modules for additional services, […]
Company Announcements In January, Bruker named Andy Boorn as president of its CAM division. Mr. Boorn previously served as president of AB SCIEX. Bruker also announced plans to narrow CAM’s strategic focus. In February, the company merged the commercial management organizations of its CAM and LSC divisions. In February, Avacta named Michael Albin, PhD, to […]
Company Announcements Under a February partnership agreement, N-of-One and Appistry will jointly market and sell N-of-One’s interpretation services and content together with Appistry’s bioinformatics next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis solutions and services. Sweden’s Science for Life Laboratory joined the Illumina Genome Network (IGN) in February, making it the 13th IGN partner and first IGN partner in […]
Company Announcements DeNovix announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Uniscience do Brasil for Brazil. Alliance Global signed an exclusive master distribution agreement with Trinean for emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In February, B&W Tek signed a distribution agreement with VWR for the distribution of its Raman products in the US and […]
Company Announcements Calbiotech, a provider of immunoassays, acquired Moduline Systems, a microplate-dispensing and vial-filling equipment manufacturer, in December 2013. The companies were previously partners. In January, TTP Labtech acquired AssayMetrics’ propelled fluorescence-lifetime technology (FLT) assets. The acquisition enhances the use of TTP’s ameon FLT plate reader. In March, Brooks Automation announced a $4 million equity […]
Company Announcements Exiqon’s 2013 revenues grew 5.3% to DKK 123.6 million ($22.0 million) (see page 12). Life Sciences product sales rose 13.6% to 78% of total sales. Fourth quarter 2013 sales were negatively affected by supplier problems. For the first three quarters, North American sales increased 14.0% to DKK 34.3 million ($6.1 million). The company […]
Company Announcements Sony announced in January the establishment with M3 of a new company, P5, which will launch a genomic-information platform in Japan for genome analysis services for research institutes and enterprises. It will also provide a service platform to support the use of genetic data for personalized medicine. Illumina is a minority investor. In […]
Company Announcements Zeiss Microscopy sales fell 3.2% to €629 million ($828 million) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, to make up 15% of revenues. The decline was due to restrained public sector investments in the US and Europe. Tescan established a UK subsidiary in December 2013, including a sales and service facility in […]
Company Announcements NanoString Technologies secured in January an exclusive option from Massachusetts General Hospital to license intellectual property related to a novel approach for multiplex protein analysis using its nCounter system. Agilent Technologies entered into a comarketing agreement in January with Picometrics Technologies to provide combined solutions for capillary electrophoresis (CE), laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection […]
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