Company Announcements Tiger Optics announced in October 2010 the addition of eight European and US distributors. In November 2010, gas analysis company Servomex, part of Spectris, announced the acquisition of Delta F for $25 million. Delta F manufactures premium, trace and ultratrace oxygen and moisture analyzer technologies. H2scan announced that its core sensor technology will […]
Company Announcements Biosearch Technologies licensed access to its BHQ, CAL Fluor and Quasar patents to DuPont Qualicon in October 2010 and is now manufacturing Scorpions primer oligonucleotides for DuPont. In November 2010, MDxHealth licensed its methylation-specific PCR (MSP) technology to Takara Bio for the scientific research market. QuantaLife closed $17.2 million in Series B financing […]
Company Announcements Affymetrix has contributed genotyping data for a large set of validated rare and common genetic variants to the 1000 Genomes Project. It has also released a larger data set of approximately five million variants on its website. In January, Affymetrix signed a distribution agreement with Fisher Scientific for its GeneAtlas System and related […]
Company Announcements Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products announced a partnership with SGE Analytical Science in fall 2010 to distribute SGE’s ProteCol HPLC columns. BioSystem Development announced in November 2010 a collaboration with BAC BV to develop high-affinity ligands for its AssayMAP platform. BAC will contribute its CaptureSelect Antibody Toolbox affinity ligands. Semba Biosciences partnered with […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems integrated its IPA software with TransMed System’s XB Bio-Integration Suite, Geospiza’s Genesifter software for next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflows, and CLC bio’s software for array and NGS data analysis. Advanced Chemistry Development entered into a five-year research collaboration with the FDA to develop quantitative structure-activity relationship toxicity models for regulatory and research […]
Company Announcements Shrink Nanotechnologies gained an exclusive right to use and sublicense Corning’s modular “plug-and-play” microfluidic system for at least eight years. Caliper Life Sciences is collaborating with Sony DADC Austria AG to develop and manufacture plastic consumables for its next-generation microfluidics products using Sony’s Blu-ray Disc manufacturing technology. They have developed consumables for the […]
Company Announcements Hitachi High-Technologies filed a new suit in September 2010 in Tokyo District Court to request damages related to its charges of infringement by FEI Japan of focused ion beam patents. This suit involves different patent rights than an earlier suit (see IBO 7/15/10). FEI is collaborating with Nanonics Imaging to explore the possibility […]
Japan’s total R&D expenditures declined for the second year in a row in fiscal 2010 (April 1, 2009–March 31, 2010). The country’s total R&D expenditures reached ¥17,246.3 billion ($185.4 billion = ¥93 = $1), a decrease of 8.3%. Total R&D expenditures as a percentage of GDP declined 0.18% to 3.62% in fiscal 2010. The figures […]
Company Announcements Following the acquisition of 95% of GENEART’s shares, Applied Biosystems GmbH agreed in November 2010 to pay €14.60 ($20.06) per share for minority shareholders’ shares (see IBO 4/30/10, 6/15/10). Contract research organization Domainex will collaborate with Sigma-Aldrich to use its Combinatorial Domain Hunting technology to produce soluble domains of a number of proteins […]
Company Announcements CETAC Technologies, a provider of sample preparation products for elemental analysis, acquired CDS Analytical, a GC injection systems firm, in November 2010. In December 2010, FLSmidth announced an offer to acquire ESSA, a provider of laboratory equipment for mining, for AUD 38.7 million ($38.4 million). As of January 17, FLSmidth had acquired 53.66% […]
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