Company Announcements Purolite is developing bioseparation resins for chromatography based on agarose media. The new products will launch in 2014 as part of its LifeTech family of products. In November, Repligen elected John G. Cox, executive vice president of Pharmaceutical Operations & Technology at Biogen Idec, to its Board. Product Introductions Shimadzu added LabSolutions Direct […]

Company Announcements Consumer DNA firm Gene by Gene acquired sequencing data management firm Arpeggi in August. Illumina partnered with Global Genomics Group to investigate novel biomarkers and biological pathways involved in the development and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Illumina will conduct whole-genome sequencing as part of a pan-omic study. In September, Illumina applied the EU’s […]

Company Announcements In September, X-Rite entered into a long-term partnership with MAC Group China for its photo portfolio. Centice named John Goehrke CEO in October. Most recently, he was CEO at Nextreme Thermo Solutions. Product Introductions BYK-Gardner introduced in September the portable BYK-mac i spectrophotometer for the quantification of fluorescence light. SciAps released the portable […]

Company Announcements Accelrys elected Heidi Melin, chief marketing officer at Plex Systems, to its Board in July. ChemAxon agreed to distribute Patcore’s CRAIS products globally excluding Japan. Certara partnered in September with the Critical Path Institute to develop a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model of the human lung built in conjunction with its Simcyp Population–based Simulator. […]

Company Announcements Hitachi High-Technologies’ fiscal second quarter 2014 Science and Medical Systems (SMS) sales grew 7.5% to ¥37.1 billion ($375.2 million = ¥98.89= $1) due to the acquisition of SII NanoTechnology (see IBO 12/15/12) and currency. Sales of Electron Microscopes and Other Scientific Instruments climbed 8.3% and 47.7% to account for 21% and 18% of […]

Company Announcements Alpha MOS exclusively licensed its micro-sensor patent portfolio for consumer goods applications, such as mobile phones and home appliances, to France Brevets, an investment fund specializing in commercializing patents. INFICON Emergency Response & Security sales declined 26.2% in the second quarter to $4.8 million, or 7% of total sales. In the third quarter, […]

Company Announcements In July, Fluidigm and Olink Bioscience announced they will comarket their respective BioMark HD System and Proseek Multiplex technology to enable the interrogation of 96 samples across 92 proteins in a single run from 1 µL of sample in less than a day. Source BioScience acquired publicly held Vindon Healthcare, a manufacturer of […]

Company Announcements In September, Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into a value added reseller agreement for IonSense’s ID-CUBE ion sources, which will be sold with the Thermo Scientific Q-Exactive and Exactive Plus LC/MS systems. In September, 908 Devices received $7 million in Series B funding, which included a new investment from Schlumberger. 908 Devices and Schlumberger […]

Company Announcements In October, MTS Systems named Dr. Arthur R. Baker senior vice president and chief technology officer. He was previously general manager of the Test Division. CSC Scientific added the Fungilab Master Series Rotational Viscometer to its product line. Beckman Coulter Life Science announced in October the combination of its Particle Characterization business with […]

Company Announcements In August, Agilent Technologies gave an Agilent Thought Leader Award to Dr. Emmanuel Barillot, director of Bioinformatics and Systems IT at the Institute Curie in Paris, in recognition of his development of user friendly, Web-based bioinformatics tools for systems toxicology. Agilent Technologies opened in August the $25 million Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Center in […]