Company Announcements Horizon Discovery exclusively licensed in August new X-MAN (gene X-Mutant And Normal) cell lines from the University of Minnesota. Baseclick announced in August that it raised an additional €1.2 million ($1.7 million) from private investors and BASF Venture Capital in a second financing round. In September, ABR-Affinity BioReagents, a Thermo Fisher Scientific company, […]
Company Announcements In August, Pressure Biosciences received a notice from the NASDAQ Stock Market that it was not in compliance with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing and has until February 2012 to regain compliance. In September, Sage Science closed a $2.0 million equity-financing round, according to an SEC filing. Sage Science announced […]
Company Announcements Mettler-Toledo acquired UK-based Triton Technology and its dynamic mechanical analyzer product line in March. In connection with the purchase, Lacerta Technology acquired Triton’s identiPol QA product line. Canadian-based Norton Scientific listed its stock on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s First Quotation Board (Open Market) in June. Norton Scientific named Shoko America its US West […]
Company Announcements A settlement agreement was announced in August in GE Healthcare’s 2010 German suit against Bio-Rad Laboratories for infringement of surface plasmon resonance–related patents. As part of the agreement, GE granted Bio-Rad access to a collection of its patents. Scientific Digital Imaging named Finance Director Mike Creedon acting managing director in August. Helicos Biosciences […]
Company Announcements In September, TESCAN USA opened an applications and demonstrations lab in Pleasanton, California, for customers in the Western Region of North America. FEI in September partnered with Oregon Health & Science University to create the Living Lab for Cell Biology, run by Joe Gray, PhD, to advance cancer research and next-generation research tools […]
Company Announcements In June, Boval Company, a manufacturer of cell culture and diagnostic biological raw materials, acquired Chata Biosystems, a supplier of custom solutions that specialized in HPLC media. Coloradoan.com reported that Boval acquired the name and instruments business, and that the remainder of the firm was renamed CHD Bioscience. In October, Novasep entered into […]
Company Announcements Roche NimbleGen named the University of Iowa’s Roy J. Carver Center for Genomics as a Certified Service Provider for comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) and gene expression. NanoInk named four new exclusive distributors: SciTech for Australia and New Zealand; Gaia Science for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam; NanoGulf for the United Arab […]
Company Announcements GE announced in its quarterly conference call that second-quarter sales for GE Healthcare Life Sciences increased 7%. Sigma-Aldrich’s second-quarter sales grew 15.0% to $637.0 million (see IBO 7/31/11) or 6% organically. Currency effects and acquisitions increased sales 7.8% and 1.6%, respectively. Research Essentials, Research Specialties, Research Biotech and Fine Chemicals revenues grew 17%, […]
Company Announcements In June, Molecular Devices filed suit against BioTek Instruments in Massachusetts District Court, alleging that the company published and disseminated product comparison materials that were false and misleading. In its answer, BioTek denied the allegations and counterclaimed the same allegations against Molecular Devices. Douglas Scientific announced it June that HighRes Biosolutions will integrate […]
Company Announcements In September, Matthew Malenfant, senior vice president and president of VWR North America, Lab Distribution and Services, resigned. In September, Avantor Performance Materials opened an electronics laboratory in Chupei City, Taiwan. In October, RURO partnered with Angelantoni Industrie to integrate their respective FreezerPro software and Smart Freezer line of ultra-low temperature robotic freezers. […]
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