Company Announcements Nobel Laureate Paul Berg, PhD, retired from Affymetrix’s Board in May. In March, Gentel Biosciences acquired the SilverQuant trademark from Eppendorf. Gentel acquired the rights to the array-based chromogenic detection technology in 2008 for use in protein-detection assay applications. In June, Microarrays Inc. named three new exclusive distributors: Cambio for the UK and […]
Company Announcements FEI and CEA-Leti announced in March a three-year agreement to characterize advanced semiconductor materials for the 22 nm technology node. Research will focus on the use of holography to improve the sensitivity of dopant profiling and the use of nanobeam diffraction techniques to measure changes in strain and other crystallographic parameters. In March, […]
Company Announcements YSI announced in March that it is looking for a strategic partner as some shareholders are seeking liquidity for their investment. The company reported that 2010 sales totaled $100 million for the first time. The Yellow Springs News reported that the company’s outside shareholders include Antioch College and Antioch University. Product Introductions Hach […]
Company Announcements In April, ThalesNano named Utek International a distributor for Taiwan. Product Introductions ThalesNano launched the H-Cube Pro flow reactor, which expands the range and throughput of hydrogenation reactions compared with the H-Cube and offers active cooling for more selective reactions. Asynt introduced the ReactoMate Compact, a small, safe and super-stable lab reaction system, […]
Company Announcements Bruker announced that in January it entered into a settlement agreement with Isis Pharmaceuticals regarding the companies’ 2008 legal dispute (see IBO 12/31/08). In February, AB SCIEX announced a collaboration with Europe’s Institute of Cancer Research to improve and standardize methods of MALDI-TOF/TOF–based tissue imaging for studying cancer metastasis. In March, the National […]
Company Announcements Avacta announced in February an exclusive sales and marketing agreement with Pall for North America. In March, Avacta signed an exclusive distribution agreement with DKSH Japan. In March, ChromaDex announced a codevelopment and comarketing agreement with Bruker Optics for dietary supplement testing that will initially focus on NIR technology for raw-material identity testing. […]
Company Announcements DataApex opened its second European Clarity Training Center, which is run by RECIPE Chemicals + Instruments, in Munich, Germany, in January. Product Introductions GE Healthcare introduced Capto ImpRes ion exchange chromatography media for late-stage purification of a wide range of biomolecules. The first products to be launched are the Capto SP ImpRes strong […]
Company Announcements In March, Transgenomic expanded its license with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to include Ice COLD-PCR (CO-amplification at Lower Denaturing temperature PCR), a technique that further extends sensitivity of mutation detection, and an exclusive license for analysis of COLD-PCR products by Pyrosequencing. WaferGen Biosystems and NuGEN Technologies agreed to codevelop and comarket integrated workflows […]
Company Announcements Merck Millipore’s 2010 sales grew 81.0% to €1,681 million ($2,211 million). Legacy Millipore products represented 38% of sales. Organic revenue grew 5.6%. Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia/Africa/Australasia accounted for 39%, 24%, 9% and 28% of revenue, respectively. Sales this year are forecast to grow 51%–56%. In March, Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed […]
Company Announcements Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance named Folio Instruments a Canadian distributor of its MQC benchtop NMR analyzer. Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance announced in April a strategic partnership with Green Imaging Technologies (GIT) to develop NMR solutions for core analysis. GIT’s LithoMetrix and GIT Systems software will be available exclusively on Oxford’s GeoSpec2 systems. The […]
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