Company Announcements In July, Rigaku acquired Emerald Bio’s reagent and consumables business, including the Wizard screens, to broaden its solutions for protein crystallography. GE Measurement & Control agreed in October to sell Thermo Fisher Scientific’s XL PMI, XL PMI+ and XL PMI+ Ultra handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) systems.This broadens GE’s non-destructive testing offerings for the […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies announced in July an agreement to distribute CEERAM’s (the European Centre for Expertise and Research on Microbial Agents) RT-qPCR assays for the detection of Norovirus GI and Norovirus GII, Hepatitis A and the Mengovirus Extraction Control Kit. Under a joint development agreement announced in July, Rheonix will supply its technology to […]
Company Announcements Miltenyi Biotec opened an office in South Korea in June, enlarging its presence to six locations in five countries. IntelliCyt opened an office in Los Altos, California, in July. Bulldog Bio is now a North American distributor of Fluxion Biosciences’ products. In August, ViroCyt named Biotech Europe a distributor for the Commonwealth of […]
Company Announcements In August, HORIBA Scientific agreed to distribute AIST-NT’s scanning probe microscope products in most of Europe, China and South America. Bruker joined SEMATECH, a consortium of semiconductor chipmakers, in October. Product Introductions FEI introduced in August the Metrios transmission electron microscope (TEM) for semiconductor manufacturing metrology, the Talos TEM for high speed imaging […]
Company Announcements Helicos BioSciences licensed its intellectual property to Complete Genomics, Fluidigm, Illumina and Life Technologies. In September, Life Technologies introduced the Ion AmpliSeq Exome Certified Service Provider program. Life Technologies named TriCore Reference Laboratories a regional Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Center of Excellence. The NIH National Human Genome Research Institute awarded a research consortium […]
Company Announcements In September, Omega Engineering, a Spectris company, opened an office in Singapore to coordinate business through Southeast Asia. Product Introductions Xylem’s YSI brand introduced several new instrument lines, including the MultiLab IDS 4010 series of single- and multiparameter optical instruments and sensors for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)-5 , pH, oxidation reduction potential (ORP) […]
Company Announcements Nanalysis opened a Boston, Massachusetts, office in August located at the Cambridge Innovation Center. Product Introductions Oxford Instruments launched in May the Pulsar benchtop NMR analyzer, featuring a 1.4 T (60 MHz) rare earth permanent magnet. Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced in August the Thermo Scientific picoSpin 80 portable benchtop NMR, featuring a 2 […]
Company Announcements Ionicon appointed RJ Lee its exclusive US distributor. Servomex named Charles Hurley, director of Sales and Marketing, managing director in June. Sartorius Stedim Biotech entered into a partnership to market and distribute BlueSens’ oxygen and carbon dioxide sensors, which will be sold as private label products under the name BioPAT Xgas. In July, […]
Company Announcements Michael E. Falk resigned for personal reasons from Cellular Dynamics International’s Board in August. In August, JSR became a minority owner in SCIVAX Life Sciences and will develop and expand SCIVEX’s 3D cell culture business and distribute products. AMSBIO agreed to distribute Sanguine BioSciences’ biospecimen collection products in Europe. ATCC announced in August […]
Company Announcements In August, the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine and CombiMatrix entered into a collaboration agreement to market chromosomal microarray analysis testing for prenatal testing. In August, NanoString Technologies announced net proceeds of $47 million from its IPO (see IBO 6/30/13). NanoString Technologies’ Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay received FDA 510(k) clearance […]
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