Company Announcements In June, Gyros named Bio Laboratories its sole distributor for Singapore. Life Technologies announced in June R&D collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital to develop an end-to-end genetic sequencing lab workflow based on the Ion Proton Sequencer. Life Technologies began in June collaboration with the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Institute for […]

Company Announcements Aspect Imaging expanded its cooperation with Bruker in April for manufacturing and distribution. Aspect will provide Bruker with technology for use in its Icon 1 T MRI system. Aspect will now focus on its clinical and industrial markets and no longer sell its M2 system directly to the preclinical market. It will refer […]

Company Announcements Shimadzu partnered in April with Sugiyama Laboratory, part of RIKEN Research Center’s RIKEN Innovation Center, to research LC/MS/MS quantitative analysis methods to support drug discovery using microdosing. Bruker signed in June an exclusive framework agreement with Turkish diagnostic lab firm Duzen for molecular microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF MS. In June, Bruker entered […]

Company Announcements DKSH agreed in April to exclusively distribute CDS Analytical products in Australia and New Zealand. INFICON’s second-quarter Emergency Response & Security sales grew 58.5% to $6.5 million Product Introductions LECO introduced in May a pulsed electron impact ionization source as an add-on option for its Pegasus GC-HRT system. It is designed to improve […]

Company Announcements BioDot agreed in March to comarket Quantiscientific’s A2 Micoarray System. Protagen announced in April a partnership with Scienion, which will produce protein microarray batches for clinical validation of Protagen’s biomarker panels. The companies also plan to jointly evaluate new platforms for multiplex analytics and codevelop new approaches. In September, Scienion agreed to distribute […]

Company Announcements Testing services firm ILS purchased in June key assets of Beckman Coulter Genomics’ Morrisville, North Carolina, site and formed ILS Genomics. Beckman Coulter acquired the site in its 2009 purchase of Cogenics (see IBO 06/15/09). Anton Paar and its Brazilian distributor Polimate formed Anton Paar Brazil, which will take over the sales and […]

Company Announcements Surety integrated in April its AbsoluteProof data integrity service with KineMatik’s electronic lab notebook. In April, Real Time Genomics appointed Steve Lombardi, former president and CEO of Helicos BioSciences, president and CEO. IDBS added ChemAxon’s Reactor engine parallel-synthesis add-on to its ChemBook electronic lab notebook. IDBS partnered with Thomson Reuters’ Intellectual Property & […]

Company Announcements In June, Bruker appointed Charles F. Wagner Jr. executive vice president and CFO. He has served on the Board since 2010 and was previously CFO of Millipore. Former CFO William J. Knight remains as executive vice president, president of Bruker Detection and US general manager of Bruker Detection. Bruker opened a new applications […]

Company Announcements In May, Russian state company RUSNANO sold its 27.6% equity stake in Advanced Technologies Center, the provider of the FemtoScan scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) and atomic scales, to NPP CPT. Sales for Carl Zeiss’s Microscopy business grew 1.6% to €310 million ($413 million) in the fiscal half year ending March 31. Carl Zeiss […]

Company Announcements Biosearch Technologies acquired the rights from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey to US Patent No. 6,150,097 (Nucleic Acid Detection Probes Having Non-FRET Fluorescence Quenching and Kits and Assays Including Such Probes), as well as counterpart international patents. The company also acquired the rights to sublicense the rights to companies. […]