Company Announcements BioSampling Systems entered into a distribution agreement with Ramcon for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. TAP Biosystems named TrendBio its exclusive distributor for Australia and New Zealand. Tecan and TAP Biosystems announced a comarketing agreement in October 2012 for the automation of TAP’s RAFT 3D cell culture system using Tecan’s Freedom EVO liquid […]

Company Announcements Fluidigm announced in November 2012 a lawsuit in California District court against NanoString Technologies for false advertising, unfair competition and unlawful trade practices in relation to an advertising campaign. BioMérieux entered into a strategic agreement in November 2012, giving it exclusive rights to Quanterix’s Simoa technology for clinical labs and industrial applications. Quanterix […]

Company Announcements PerkinElmer opened a customer center in Krakow, Poland. Analytik Jena was among the supporters of an endowed professorship in fiber optics awarded to Markus Schmidt at Germany’s University of Jena. HORIBA inaugurated in November 2012 its research and technology center at France’s Saclay Technopole. The facility, which is 7,500 square feet with the […]

Company Announcements Phenomenex and ChromaDex announced a collaboration agreement to provide solutions, consisting of a combination of reference standards, methods and application support, for dietary supplements. NovaSep named Patrick Glaser, head of the Synthesis division, president and CEO, effective October 1, 2012. SiliCycle opened a Chinese office in November 2012. Product Introductions AB SCIEX introduced […]

Company Announcements Protea named new distributors: Yair Technologies for Israel, BioAnalytic for Poland, Irida Iberica for Spain and Portugal, and IDL Teknolojik for Turkey. Bruker announced in October 2012 a collaboration with Nextval for high-throughput screening of drugs and their metabolites using its ultrafleXtreme MALDI-TOF/TOF. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a collaboration with Immundiagnostik to develop […]

Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems announced in November 2012 a long-term collaboration with LabCorp to license and deploy its clinical content and applications to rapidly review and annotate clinically relevant sequence variations. Cartagenia integrated Interactive Biosoftware’s Alamut gene visualization software into its BENCHlab platform, a web-based software and database platform that interprets genomic variation in routine […]

Company Announcements As the result of an expanded licensing and commercialization relationship with Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Rockland Immunochemicals now markets CellCountEZ, OxPhos, RadDose and Intracelluar ThioEZ assays and additional products. StemCells partnered with R Biomedical to develop and commercialize a range of cell lines and reagents to facilitate human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) […]

Company Announcements Horizon Technology appointed Board member Dr. Peter Brown as CEO in September 2012. Previously, he served as general manager of VG Elemental. Claremont BioSolutions announced in October 2012 a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel for its Prep-on-a-Chip. Pressure BioSciences signed a supplier agreement with Cole-Parmer for its PBI Shredder SG3 […]

Company Announcements Genia Technologies announced in October a collaboration with investigators at Columbia University and Harvard University to develop a nanopore-based sequencing system for use in the clinic. The system would combine Genia’s COMOS integrated circuit, Professor George Church’s novel protein constructs and Columbia’s unique Tag-based sequencing chemistry approach. Genia entered into an exclusive license […]

Product Introductions Vapourtec launched the E-Series range of flow chemistry systems, including the easy-Scholar, the easy-Polymer and the easy-Medchem. The systems feature a new pump, which offers smooth flow and strong acid capability. Mettler-Toledo introduced the 100 mL Hastelloy Pressure Reactors EM20- 100-HC and EM60- 100-HC, designed for use with the EasyMax synthesis workstation. Intavis […]