Company Announcements Takara Bio granted QIAGEN GmbH a license in April to make, use and sell LA PCR–related products. QIAGEN NV acquired rights in May to 70 real time PCR–based molecular food safety tests developed by the Institute for Product Quality. The first kits will be available in the fourth quarter. The company plans to […]
Company Announcements Six-month revenue for INFICON AG’s Emergency Response and Security segment rose 51.9% to CHF 11.7 million ($6.3 million), primarily due to military sales in Asia, to represent 8% of company sales. The company disclosed that it paid $3.5 million to acquire Agilent’s Micro GC business in May (see IBO 3/31/10). Alpha MOS announced […]
Company Announcements Gerresheimer announced the closure of its Life Science production facility in Vineland, New Jersey. The plant’s activities will be transferred to China and Mexico. ATAGO announced in February that it opened a subsidiary office in Brazil. Artel began offering direct sales of its Multichannel Verification System and Pipette Calibration System in Germany, Switzerland […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies announced the closure of manufacturing sites in Camarillo, California, and Bromborough, UK. Operations will be consolidated at the Frederick, Maryland, and Warrington, UK, facilities. Life Technologies formed the GIBCO Cell Therapy Systems product portfolio in June, which offers products to support cell therapy applications, including regenerative medicine. Biotage A/S named Andres […]
Company Announcements BioTime acquired ES Cell International, a provider of human embryonic stem cell technology, in May. Under an OEM agreement, Exiqon A/S will package BioDiscovery’s array image analysis and data analysis and visualization software with its miRNA arrays. Tocris Bioscience will distribute Jena Bioscience GmbH products in the US. ZyGEM acquired in May MicroLab […]
Product Introductions Advanced Chemistry Development released in March its processing software for 1D and 2D NMR, free of charge to students and educators. Bruker introduced the SampleXpress autosampler for medium-throughput NMR automation. It can hold up to 60 standard-length NMR tubes and is compatible with all Bruker AVANCE NMR spectrometers. The product line includes the […]
Company Announcements CEM formed a Japanese subsidiary with headquarters in Tokyo and an office in Osaka. The offices will begin operation this fall with approximately 10 employees. Bayer Technology Services named Dr. Joachim Heck as managing director of Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS GmbH in March. He was formerly unit manager and a member of the management […]
Company Announcements Under a strategic product licensing, manufacturing, comarketing and collaborative R&D agreement, Pressure BioSciences was licensed by Target Discovery to manufacture and sell a line of reagents for use with its Pressure Cycling Technology for the extraction and recovery of intact, functional proteins associated with cell membranes in tissue samples. BioSystem Development and ProZyme […]
Company Announcements IDBS entered into a strategic partnership with Soluzioni Informatiche for distribution of its E-Workbook Suite in Italy. TIBCO Software partnered with IDBS to integrate their respective Spotfire Analytics Platform and ActivityBase chemistry technology for exploring the extended effects of chemical structures on biological activity. Bio-IT World reported in April that Microsoft spun off […]
Company Announcements Biotage AB announced a distribution partnership with John Morris Scientific for Australia and New Zealand. In April, Biotage announced long-term financial goals that can be achieved by 2012: organic growth of at least 10%, an increase in gross margin by 1–2 percentage points per year with a goal of achieving a gross margin […]
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