Company Announcements Illumina reduced the price of its individual genome-sequencing service in June from $19,500 to $9,500. Fox Chase Cancer Center will use Life Technologies’ SOLiD system, the Ion Torrent sequencer and novel biological information technology systems as part of a new program to provide next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of solid tumors. The program includes […]
Company Announcements Grant Instruments opened a regional office in Shanghai, China, in March. In April, Henry Schein, a provider of health care products to office-based practitioners, acquired Alpha Scientific. Alpha Scientific, a distributor of medical/surgical, pharmaceutical and lab products to physician offices and medical labs, had 2010 sales of $10 million. Bibby Scientific opened a […]
Company Announcements In April, Metrohm became the exclusive distributor of Analytik Jena’s analytical measurement products in India and Scandinavia. In May, Anton Paar opened its 14th foreign subsidiary in Malmö, Sweden, to serve Sweden, Denmark and Finland. In June, Corning hired Dr. Richard Eglen as vice president and general manager of its Life Sciences business. […]
Company Announcements Atago opened a Chinese branch in Guangzhou in March. Micromeritics Instruments (China) was incorporated in April as a full-service import/export company. The company currently has 25 employees located in four offices. In March, MTS Systems announced it was notified by the US Department of the Air Force that it is temporarily suspended from […]
Company Announcements WaferGen Biosystems announced in May that it raised $30.4 million in a private placement financing of equity and debt. In May, Roche Applied Science signed an exclusive OEM agreement with IT-IS Life Sciences for the distribution of IT-IS’s low-throughput LightCycler Nano Instrument. Halo Genomics appointed Ozyme as a distributor for France and Nacalai […]
Company Announcements In April, Olympus named Hidenao Tsuchiya vice president and general manager of its Scientific Equipment Group in the Americas. He was most recently the division manager for the Life Science Business Division of the Life Science and Industrial Systems Group. In June, Carl Zeiss entered into an agreement enabling it to offer Digital […]
Company Announcements In April, Showa Denko transferred its HPLC instrument business to Shoko Scientific and stated it will concentrate on its Shodex HPLC columns business. In April, Phenomenex opened an office in Hyderabad, India, for directly serving the Indian market. YMC announced in April the establishment of YMC Korea. In June, BAC announced a strategic […]
Company Announcements Cellular Dynamics raised $30 million in April in a Series B Preferred Stock financing, led by an entity affiliated with Tactics II Stem Cell Ventures. New England Biolabs named two new exclusive distributors, extending it distribution network to 39 firms: BIOKE for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg; and Imperial Life Sciences for India. […]
Company Announcements In April, Oxford Nanopore raised $41 million in new funding via a private placement of ordinary shares. Dolomite signed a collaboration agreement to exclusively distribute Sphere Fluidics’ picodroplet products and to develop and sell new picodroplet products. Pacific Biosciences announced in May a collaboration with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in areas […]
Company Announcements Sage-N Research and Nonlinear Dynamics agreed to comarket their respective SORCERER proteomics platform and Progeneis LC/MS label-free quantification software. In May, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics entered into a comarketing agreement for Bruker’s MALDI Biotyper MALDI-TOF MS system for microbial identification. In June, Prosolia named GSG Meß- und Analysengeräte a distributor for its Omni Spray […]
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