Company Announcements LGC Genomics and Covaris announced in June a partnership to integrate their respective DNA purification solution and FFPE extraction workflow. In July, QIAGEN partnered with Exosome Diagnostics to develop and commercialize sample preparation kits for the processing of nucleic acids from exosomes. The exclusive agreement includes the life science and translational medicine markets. […]
Company Announcements Japanese firm JSR signed a business alliance agreement with antibody supplier Medical & Biological Laboratories in March and acquired a 33% stake in the company for ¥4.5 billion ($47.6 million). Areas of codevelopment include latex bead reagents and epigenome-related reagents. Vitro Biopharma expanded its agreement with distributor Neuromics to include the drug discovery […]
Company Announcements Teledyne Technologies promoted Al Pichelli, president and CEO of the Instrumentation, and Aerospace and Defense Electronics segments, to executive vice president. In July, Thermo Fisher Scientific established the China Innovation Center in Shanghai. The $9.5 million Center is expected to add 200–300 engineers over the next two to three years. The Center includes […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems, a QIAGEN firm, and Affymetrix announced in April they will copromote the Ingenuity iReport with Affymetrix expression microarray products. Real Time Genomics and the J. Craig Venter Institute announced in May a long term strategic collaboration to understand de novo mutations for stem cell progression studies and to deliver validated datasets. […]
Company Announcements In June, CovaIX and Bruker Daltonics announced a strategic collaboration. They jointly support the CovalX High Mass Detection System for all autoflex and ultraflex series instruments and provide new and existing Bruker MALDI customers with access to CovalX applications for protein identification and macromolecular analysis. Waters named the Flavor Research and Education Center […]
Company Announcements Oxford Nanopore licensed technology from the University of Cambridge for a hybrid nanopore that combines a solid state nanopore and DNA origami, which are small, well-controlled shapes made of DNA. Bloomberg reported that Illumina’s agreement related to Oxford Nanopore exonuclease sequencing technology will expire in 2016. Illumina holds a 15% stake in Oxford […]
Company Announcements Hach announced in April a sales partnership for LuminUltra’s microbiological monitoring solutions. In May, ASD named United Spectrometer Technologies a primary mining reseller in Southern Africa for its TerraSpec system. Korean firm Mecasys opened its first US office in Seattle, Washington, in May. In June, Analyze IQ announced a partnership under which Shimadzu […]
Company Announcements In April, Nikon named Alta Tecnologia en Laboratorios an authorized dealer for Mexico for its Eclipse and SMZ Biological Microscopes, Digital Sight Microscope Cameras and NIS-Elements Microscope Imaging Software. In May, ZEISS reported that revenue for its Microscopy business group for the half year ending March 31 fell 2.3% to €303 million ($394 […]
Company Announcements In May, QIAGEN opened the QIAGEN (Suzhou) Translational Medicine Center to accelerate the discovery and validation of biomarkers and create companion diagnostics for the Chinese market. The Center is a joint venture with BioBAY, a life sciences cluster located near Shanghai. QIAGEN (Suzhou) is expected to grow to about 50 employees within three […]
Company Announcements Sigma Life Science agreed in April to distribute the European Collection of Cell Cultures, a collection of human and animal cell cultures. Sigma has exclusive distribution rights, excluding the UK, Australia and Japan. The Business Standard reported in April that Sigma-Aldrich will distribute GE Healthcare’s Whatman products in India. In April, BellBrook Labs […]
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