Company Announcements In May, RainDance Technologies named Andy Watch vice president and chief marketing officer. Most recently, he was vice president of SOLiD Sequencing Product Management at Life Technologies. RainDance Technologies announced in June a multiyear collaboration with Sony DADC Austria for the codevelopment and manufacture of microdroplet-based “smart consumables.” The first product released is […]
Company Announcements The Automation Partnership changed its name to TAP Biosystems in March. In March, Tecan entered into an agreement to commercialize products based on HP’s inkjet-dispensing technology for pharmaceutical drug discovery. The digital drug titration device enables the fast delivery of picoliter to microliter sample volumes. Tecan will provide exclusive sales, marketing, service and […]
Company Announcements In May, Bruker opened a new Singapore Center of Excellence, which provides sales and after-sales services for Southeast Asia. The Center has a staff of 45 and expects to hire 10 to 20 more employees. Bruker opened in May a major applications, training and service center in Shanghai, China. The center brings together […]
Company Announcements Kyoto University, iPS Academia Japan and iPierian entered into intellectual property agreements in February that create a unified patent estate covering induced pluripotent stem cell technology. In March, Life Technologies’ StemPro MSC (mesenchymal stem cells) SFM (serum-free medium) stem cell culture medium received FDA 501(k) clearance, which is required for researchers involved in […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies partnered with BioTeam in February to provide extended service and support for the Ion Torrent Server and Torrent Suite Software, including a subscription-based support package. In February, Ingenuity Systems announced a collaboration with Covance Genomics Laboratory for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis. Pacific Biosciences named Biomatters an Informatics and Computational Infrastructure […]
Company Announcements Hamilton acquired Inline Messtechnik, its former German distributor for process products, in December 2010. In February, Modern Water acquired Cogent Environmental, a provider of portable and on-line water-monitoring products, from Sultan Scientific. Modern Water also established a new division, MW Monitoring. Environics Oy and IUT Institut fuer Umwelttechnologien formed Environics-IUT GmbH, a joint […]
Company Announcements In its fiscal second-quarter 2012 conference call, Becton Dickinson said that it paid $205 million to buy Accuri Cytometers (see IBO 2/15/11). Accuri is expected to contribute approximately one percentage point to BD Biosciences revenue in fiscal 2012 and approximately one to two percentage points annually over the next three years. In March, […]
Company Announcements Roche 454 Life Sciences and RainDance Technologies announced in March that they will develop and commercialize a targeted next-generation sequencing solution for ADME and will launch a core ADME gene-screening research panel that enables the detection of known and unknown functional mutations associated with drug metabolism and response. Fluidigm’s 2010 revenues increased 32.3% […]
Company Announcements In March, Halma acquired Wagtech’s Water Technology Division for £3.0 million ($4.9 million). The Division, which supplies water test kits and arsenic test kits, was merged with Palintest. Esco named XQ Lin CEO in March. He previously served as president of the North American subsidiary. Biohit announced in March a net sales target […]
Company Announcements First-quarter Roche Applied Science revenue declined 12%, down 3% in local currencies, to CHF 198 million ($211 million) due to a large one-time order a year ago. Custom Biotech sales grew 13%, Genomic Analysis sales increased 1%, Other revenue fell 10% and qPCR & Nucleic Acid Purification sales fell 16%. Europe/Middle East/Africa and […]
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