Company Announcements In January, Cellectis announced that it integrated its Ectycell and Cellectis bioresearch segments. Cellectis bioresearch also completed a capital increase of €3.5 million ($4.8 million) from Caisse des Dépôts, which now holds a 24.5% share in Cellectis bioresearch (see IBO 12/15/13). Biomatrica signed a distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich in January. TGR BioSciences and […]

Company Announcements Rancho BioSciences partnered with OmicSoft in September 2013 for manual data curation. Goinformatics and TeselaGen announced a strategic partnership to integrate their respective GoLIMS platform, and computer-aided design and manufacturing platform for prototyping biomolecules in a cloud-based platform. Core Informatics opened a London, England, office in December 2013. Chemical Abstracts Service and PerkinElmer […]

Company Announcements German distributor Altmann Analytik acquired Dinkelberg analytics in January. Techcomp announced in January that it will acquire the remaining 49% equity interest in Jingke Scientific, a Chinese instrument manufacturer, and 51% equity interest in Jingke Trading from INESA Electron for $2.1 million. The Jingke companies had 2012 sales of $10.2 million. Agilent Technologies […]

Company Announcements In November 2013, ATAC acquired Research Equipment London, a lab cone and plate viscometer firm. Micromeritics acquired in November 2013 PoroTechnology, a provider of mercury injection capillary pressure rock property data. For the fiscal year ending September 28, 2013, MTS Systems reported that Materials Testing orders within its Test segment were flat. Evergreen […]

Company Announcements Biocartis completed a €30 million ($40 million) Series E equity fundraising in November 2013. BioMérieux and Biocartis agreed in November 2013 to terminate their collaboration. BioMérieux remains a Biocartis shareholder. Agilent Technologies announced in November 2013 a collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine’s Medical Genetics Laboratories to provide customized comparative genomics hybridization (CGH) […]

Company Announcements Agilent Technologies is collaborating with Australia’s University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research on oral cancer research. The Centre will use Agilent’s SureSelect target enrichment system. In December 2013, Appistry added new Broad Institute tools for next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis to its Cancer Genome Analysis Suite, including the ContEst tool for estimating […]

Company Announcements Swift Biosciences announced in October 2013 the completion of a $7 million Series B financing. In November 2013, RainDance Technologies named BIOKÉ a distributor for its RainDrop Digital PCR Systems in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. BioMérieux selected Life Technologies’ 7500 instrument range as the preferred thermocyclers for its new molecular biological […]

Company Announcements Cemtrex announced in fall 2013 a US distribution agreement with SensEvolution, a division of BAGGI, for process oil and gas analyzer systems. Industrial Scientific sold its Oldham fixed-point gas detection business to Industrial Safety Technologies in October 2013. In November 2013, ATAC acquired Guided Wave Europe, Guided Wave’s sales and service operation for […]

Company Announcements ANDalyze named Hach an authorized distributor. SciAps received in November 2013 a $2.5 million investment led by new investor Gefinor Ventures. In December 2013, Datacolor opened a sales and service company in São Paulo, Brazil. FOSS announced in January that it will close its site in Höganäs, Sweden, which employs 160, by the […]

Company Announcements Takara Bio expanded its license agreement with iPS Academia Japan in September 2013, enabling it to offer iPS cell construction services and reprogramming vectors, and to sublicense to its customers the right to screen chemicals for drug discovery using cells differentiated from iPS cells derived from the licensed products. Novus Biologicals acquired Imgenex […]