Company Announcements Advanced Chemistry Development expanded its direct sales and support in Europe to include France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. Under a collaboration agreement, Ariadne will distribute Aureus Pharma’s offerings in the US. GenoLogics raised $1 million in equity financing in May, according to an SEC filing. QIucore named JH BIO an […]
Company Announcements Lonza licensed in June Axxam’s Photina, i-Photina and Clytin Photoproteins as calcium biosensors for its range of Clonetics Primary Cells. Promega partnered with SignalChem Pharmaceuticals in July to launch a complete solution for profiling kinase inhibitor compounds against the human kinome. The solution combines unique Kinase Enzyme Systems with Promega’s ADP-Glo Kinase Assay. […]
Company Announcements Agilent provided Stemina Biomarker Discovery with its 1290 Infinity UHPLC, 6530 Q-TOF MS and Mass Profiler Professional software to help accelerate Stemina’s metabolomic analysis of stem cells for the discovery of biomarkers for use in drug screening and development. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments partnered with Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD) to bring together LCMS-IT-TOF MS […]
Company Announcements Datacolor established an Indian subsidiary in Mumbai earlier this year. Cannon Instrument assumed exclusive representation for KEM’s (Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing) products in the US and portions of North America for applications in the petroleum, polymer and petrochemical industries. MTI Instruments acquired in March the tensile stage line of products from Ernest F. Fullam. […]
Company Announcements Chip-Man Technologies appointed Ionovation GmbH as its German distributor. Nanion Technologies GmbH announced in April that a European Patent Office’s (EPO) Board of Appeal overturned a decision to uphold EP No. 1 040 349 owned by Molecular Devices, stating the patent must be amended to exclusively describe a positioning method using electrical fields […]
Company Announcements Merck Millipore updated its 2010 nonGAAP guidance for Millipore as a stand-alone company, estimating that revenue will increase 8.8% to $1,800 million and operating income will grow 18.8% to $405 million. In June, the University of California San Diego, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Life Technologies initiated stem cell research on […]
Company Announcements Bio-Works agreed to provide agarose-based chromatography gels for use with Knauer GmbH’s BioFox line of separations columns for protein purification. Bio-Works will provide prepacked columns and bulk media. PAC and Metrohm are working together to develop combustion IC applications using their respective MultiTek and IC systems. Product Introductions Gilson launched the PLC 2020 […]
Company Announcements Helicos BioSciences launched a diagnostics business in June, including plans for a CLIA-approved genetic testing lab. Dr. Robert Wassman, founder of Good Start Genetics, was named chief medical officer. Protein-detection and -quantitation system developer BioScale secured $25 million in a June financing round. Advanced Analytical opened a sales office and lab in Heidelberg, […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific acquired Polychromix, the provider of the PHAZIR handheld NIR instrument, in May. The company had 20 employees. In June, Ocean Optics acquired Sandhouse Design, a designer and manufacturer of modular mid-IR spectrometers, LEDs, light sources and other photonics products. Ocean Optics stated that with the purchase it now offers close […]
Company Announcements McCrone Microsocopes & Accessories announced in May that it is a licensed distributor of the JEOL NeoScope benchtop scanning electron microscope (SEM). Hamilton Thorne announced in May a vendor partnership with Leica Microsystems GmbH under which Leica will market and distribute Hamilton Thorne’s core laser products and select products in North America. Olympus […]
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