Company Announcements Nova Instruments, which owns Dantec Dynamics A/S, acquired Brookhaven Instruments, a provider of technology for laser light scattering, molecular weight, particle size, zeta potential and chromatography, in July. Spectris purchased Zhuhai Omec Instruments, a Chinese company that specializes in particle characterization, in July for £7 million ($11 million). In September, Micromeritics’ new Japanese […]
Company Announcements Roche NimbleGen named Macrogen as a Certified Service Provider for Korea for CGH/copy number variation (CNV) services. Microarrays Inc. was sold by Vanderbilt University in July to its management team and independent investors. Affymetrix will develop and commercialize the Axiom Chinese myDesign Genotyping Array for genome-wide association studies specifically on Chinese populations. In […]
Company Announcements Revenue for Takara Bio’s Genetic Engineering Research unit declined 0.3% for the fiscal year ending March 31 to ¥16,689 million ($179.7 million) to make up 87% of Takara Bio sales. Operating income rose 8.7% to ¥4,151 million ($44.7 million) (see IBO 9/30/10). Sales of research reagents declined, partly due to the yen’s appreciation, […]
Company Announcements Axiogenesis AG in-licensed the Yamanaka patent portfolio from iPS Academia for iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and other cell types. Sigma-Aldrich entered into a five-year agreement with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to develop methods to measure several potential biomarkers for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease using plasma samples. Sigma Life Science expects to develop antibody […]
Company Announcements Novasep and instrAction entered into a strategic alliance to provide API-selective stationary phases and large-scale chromatography processes for purifying synthetic and semi-synthetic compounds. Chiral Technologies Europe entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Vienna, Austria, for exclusive manufacturing and marketing rights for novel Cinchona alkaloid-based zwitterion-exchange type chiral stationary phases. […]
Company Announcements Galvanic Applied Sciences’ revenues for the year ending April 30 fell 19.2% to CAD 11.2 million ($10.3 million) (see page 12). The loss after income taxes was $206,000. Sales of Analytical Measurement Equipment declined 19.0% to CAD 6.0 million ($5.5 million). Sales of Liquid Process Analyzers fell 14.0% to CAD 4.6 million ($4.2 […]
Company Announcements Pressure BioSciences elected investor Alan I. Goldberg to its Board in July. The company also elected Gregory G. Freitag, Esq., increasing its Board to seven members. He is CEO and CFO of LecTec, an intellectual property licensing and holding company. Precision System Science announced in July that it filed a provisional disposition with […]
Company Announcements RETSCH established a Russian subsidiary earlier this year. The head office is located at Khimanalit Institute in St. Petersburg. Gilson named A. Daigger and Company its exclusive General Services Administration (GSA) distributor for GSA advantage contracts. Gilson also appointed DOT Scientific and Genesee Scientific as distributors of its PIPETMAN products. Eli Manchester Jr. […]
Company Announcements Biomatrica launched Biomatrica Connect, a solution-centric partnership program with industry and academia for ambient room temperature storage and management of nucleic acids. Industry members include BioStorage Technologies, Matrical Biosciences and NEXUS Biosystems. BioTek Instruments named Dr. Dirk Frese as managing director, Europe, in July. He was previously director and global category manager for […]
Company Announcements Roenalytic GmbH in July named Eastern Applied Research as its exclusive service and support representative for the US. In August, Rigaku announced the formation of a locally incorporated company in Berlin, Germany. Product Introductions Horiba Scientific launched the EMIA-V2 analyzer for simultaneous carbon-sulfur analysis, featuring a redesigned furnace area and “maintenance navigator” software. […]
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