Company Announcements Fluidigm established a Chinese subsidiary in January. In May, Fluidigm and the Broad Institute established a research center for the development of research methods and discoveries in mammalian single-cell genomics. Aushon BioSystems entered into an exclusive North American distribution agreement with Fisher Scientific in February. In April, Sequenom purchased Helicos BioSciences’ US Patent […]
Company Announcements QIAGEN’s first-quarter sales rose 13% at constant exchange rates, including 7% growth from acquisitions and a 1% decline from currency. At constant exchange rates, sales in the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia-Pacific grew 15%, 12% and 14% to make up 47%, 34% and 18% of sales, respectively. Seven emerging countries accounted for 10% […]
Company Announcements DNAnexus announced in February strategic alliances with Geisinger Health Systems and the University of California San Francisco for the development of clinically relevant workflows for DNA sequencing. Biomatters promoted Managing Director Dr. Brett Ammundsen to CEO in March. Cartagenia opened its first North American office in Boston, Massachusetts, in March. Partek announced in […]
Company Announcements In June, ESK Ceramics, a Ceradyne subsidiary, which supplies flow-chemistry reactors for the industrial scale, acquired a minority interest in Chemtrix, a provider of microreactors, for an undisclosed amount. Product Introductions Uniqsis introduced the ArrheniusOneFlow, a microwave-based flow chemistry system that integrates its FlowSyn liquid handling technology with WaveCraft’s ArrheniousOne microwave application technology […]
Company Announcements In April, Halma acquired Sensorex, a manufacturer of electrochemical sensors for water analysis, for $37.5 million. Existing management remained with the company. In 2011, Sensorex recorded an operating profit of $3.9 million. In-Situ announced in May that its RDO methods are the only optical or luminescence-based dissolved oxygen (DO) methods to pass the […]
Company Announcements In April, Sigma-Aldrich entered into a license agreement with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to offer two membrane scaffold proteins used in Nanodiscs, which are self-assembled systems that render soluble in aqueous media typically insoluble yet biologically and pharmacologically significant targets. In April, BioTime agreed to acquire Xeenex, which holds the exclusive […]
Company Announcements Gilson announced in February that its PIPETMAN products are now available through Fisher Scientific. Analytik Jena and SOTAX partnered in February to pair their respective SPECORD PLUS UV/Vis spectrometers and online dissolution systems. In March, Kewaunee Scientific named David M. Rausch president and COO. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of […]
Company Announcements Rigaku announced in February an expanded collaboration with the University of Tokyo School of Engineering for X-ray diffraction spectroscopy. XRF Scientific agreed in April to enter into a fifty-fifty joint venture with Scott Technology’s Rocklabs subsidiary, which will be known as XRock Automation, to develop and promote automated system for mining. Rocklabs supplies […]
Company Announcements Oxford Gene Technologies entered into an exclusive licensing agreement in February with the Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo for 12 colorectal cancer tissue DNA methylation biomarkers. In March, Procognia signed a binding letter of intent, granting Beijing Cy-Tech Biotech exclusive rights to sell the lectin array–based GlycoScope solution in the […]
Company Announcements Agilent and BGI announced in February a collaboration to develop methods for next-generation genome-wide association studies, with the goal of creating a next-generation super exome using Agilent’s SureSelect technology. In March, Pressure Biosciences named LA Biosystems its exclusive distributor for the Benelux countries. Pressure Biosciences is collaborating with Sage-N Research to develop software […]
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