Company Announcements In December 2011, BioTek Instruments dismissed its suit against Molecular Devices (see IBO 10/31/11). BioTek Instruments announced in January the establishment of a second Chinese office in Shanghai. In January, BioTek Instruments opened a French subsidiary in Colmar. Serlabo Technologies will provide service, maintenance and qualification for its products. In January, Tecan announced […]
Company Announcements In March, a Delaware District Court consolidated shareholders’ class action suits against Illumina’s Board, alleging breach of fiduciary duties in connection with Roche’s tender offer (see IBO 1/31/12). In February, Waters acquired the net assets of its Israeli sales and service distributor for $6 million in cash. DKSH, a provider of market expansion […]
Company Announcements Expanding their current agreement, in March, Cosmo Bio assumed a leadership position in Japan for the promotion, sale and high-level support of Enzo Life Sciences products. Also, Enzo will expand its global distribution of Cosmo Bio’s research biotools. Cellular Dynamics expanded its agreement with iPS Academia Japan to include iCell Neurons and iCell […]
Company Announcements Techcomp announced in January that it is the exclusive distributor of Scientific Analysis Instruments’ MiniSIMS (secondary ion MS) in China, including Hong Kong. FEI entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement in January with the NIH, creating a “Living Lab Structural Biology Center” to promote structural biology research through the integration of […]
Company Announcements Hichrom announced in March the acquisition of the Partisil and Partisphere HPLC column consumables product line from Whatman, a division of GE Healthcare. In March, Novasep completed a €310 million ($410 million) recapitalization, including €30 million ($40 million) from Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement (see IBO 11/15/11). Product Introductions Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the Thermo […]
Company Announcements Alpha MOS acquired Swiss firm Smart Nose, which makes an MS-based electronic nose, in January, following its liquidation, for CHF 40,000 ($43,000). Alpha MOS stated that the acquisition expands its intellectual property and its consumables offerings. In March, Prosolia exclusively licensed from the Estate of Professor John B. Fenn sample introduction and ionization […]
Company Announcements Alpha MOS’s fiscal 2011 sales for the year ending September 30, 2011, increased 22.3% to €9.9 million ($13.8 million). System sales increased 37.2%. The food and beverage sector represented 65% of revenues. Sales in the Americas grew 34%, and sales in Asia, outside of Japan, rose 27%. Japan accounted for 36% of revenues. […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific appointed C. Martin Harris, MD, MBA, to its Board, effective March 30. He is the chief information officer and chairman of the information technology division of Cleveland Clinic. He is also responsible for strategic business planning. Thermo Fisher Scientific named David M. Sabatini, MD, PhD, to its Scientific Advisory Board […]
Company Announcements Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, and OligoCo (formerly Blue Heron Biotechnology) entered into a collaboration in January to develop a next-generation oligonucleotide synthesizer that provides high throughput and low error rates at a low cost. Oxford Nanopore announced in February that it will commercialize its GridION and MinION scalable, nanopore-based DNA sequencers this […]
Company Announcements In February, New England Biolabs (NEB) and Synthetic Genomics entered into a licensing agreement. NEB will introduce a master mix based on the Gibson Assembly method, which enables the rapid assembly of multiple DNA fragments using a one-step, isothermal approach. Eppendorf licensed patents covering gradient technology for thermal cyclers to Agilent Technologies in […]
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