Company Announcements Agilent and Sage Science signed a comarketing agreement in February for Agilent’s 2100 Bioanalyzer and Sage Science’s Pippin Prep DNA size-selection system. Life Technologies introduced a fourth $1 million challenge in its Life Grand Challenges Contest: to sequence the genome and all RNA content derived from a single cancer cell using the 5500 […]
Company Announcements In January, RainDance Technologies closed a Series D financing round of $37.5 million, coled by Mohr Davidow Ventures and new investor Quaker BioVentures. Precision System Science entered into a supply and distribution agreement with IntegenX for its SX-8G Compact Automated Nucleic Acid Extractor, which will be cobranded as the Apollo 324. In February, […]
Company Announcements SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH formed a strategic marketing alliance with SII NanoTechnology in February to market its ICP-OES and ICP-MS systems in Japan. SPECTRO will continue to support its existing Japanese customers through its subsidiary. In February, PANalytical acquired the XRF laboratories in Keyworth, UK, from the British Geological Survey (BGS). The labs […]
Company Announcements GenomeQuest and Ingenuity Systems integrated their respective Sequence Data Management platform and IPA software. Analytik Jena’s AJ Blomesystem subsidiary, a LIMS supplier, acquired a 55% share in comicon, which develops software modules for lipid chemistry for food analysis. CLC bio will participate in the EU’s COGANGS (Comparative Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing) project […]
Company Announcements Pyrolyzer maker Frontier Laboratories opened its first US office in October 2010 in Antioch, California. The company is working with Diablo Analytical to assist its existing US distributors, Quantum Analytics and Shimadzu. Shimadzu announced in January that its GC-2010 Plus and GC-2014 systems can now be controlled in a Waters Empower Software environment. […]
Company Announcements NT-MDT announced that its US sales of scanning probe microscopes increased threefold in 2010. Sales in Europe grew more than 35%. Daniel McGee was named president of Carl Zeiss Nano Technology Systems’ North American operations in February. JPK Instruments appointed Lotis Korea as its exclusive Korean distributor and KL Analytical as its exclusive […]
Company Announcements In 2010, sales for Roche Diagnostics Applied Science were flat at CHF 868 million ($835 million), but grew 4% in local currencies, to make up 8% of Roche Diagnostics revenue. Genomic Analysis, Custom Biotech and Other sales grew 17%, 13% and 4%, respectively, but qPCR & Nucleic Acid Purification sales fell 12%. Asia-Pacific […]
Company Announcements Malvern Instruments acquired Sysmex’s industrial particle measurement business in October 2010. Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics brand, announced in December 2010 an exclusive agreement to distribute Material Flow Equipment’s SPECTester material segregation tester. Under a collaboration agreement, Beckman Coulter Particle Characterization will refer customers to ImmunoSite Technologies for particle characterization services, and ImmunoSite will […]
Company Announcements Under a license from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Akonni Biosystems plans to commercialize low-cost, multiplexed tests for research and IVD uses in bio-security applications. The tests are expected to be available in 2012. In February, GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services was the agent for and lender of $55 […]
Company Announcements As part of its restructuring of RTS Life Science, Entologi has formed the Vision Technology Business Unit, which will focus on products for manufacturing, lab and warehouse applications. Tecan and Sword Diagnostics announced in January the availability of Sword’s detection reagents in the US for use with Tecan’s Infinite M1000 and 200 PRO […]
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