Company Announcements Agilent and Duquesne University announced the establishment of a Center of Excellence for MS for research in the life sciences and environmental analysis. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Biomarker Research Initiatives in MS Center extended its two-year collaboration with George Mason University’s Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, John Hopkins University and Toronto’s University […]

Company Announcements Autoclave manufacturer SHP Steriltechnik AG signed a joint venture agreement with Vietnam-based Vinacontrol and FCS-Service GmbH to establish a company that will operate food-testing labs in Vietnam. Biohit’s ErgoTube microcentrifuge tubes will be branded and sold by both Biohit and BioCision, and Biohit will copromote BioCision’s CoolRack microfuge tube racks. New Jersey newspaper […]

Company Announcements Sigma-Aldrich announced a corporate partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Advanced Training Center. Sigma-Aldrich will exclusively distribute Highlands Stable Isotope’s set of stable isotope–labeled synthetic reagents through its ISOTEC product lines. International Stem Cell’s Lifeline Cell Technology subsidiary named Veritas as its Japanese distributor. TriLink BioTechnologies named Cedarlane as a distributor for […]

Company Announcements The Automation Partnership agreed to distribute AVISO GmbH’s CellCelector automated stem cell picker in the UK and Ireland. In a March SEC filing, Cyntellect said it raised $3 million from the sale of debt, equity and options or warrants. In May, Accuri Cytometers and eBioscience, a reagent provider, entered into a comarketing agreement. […]

Company Announcements Applied Research & Photonics and the SAIC-Frederick entered into a collaboration to assess terahertz spectrometry for the analysis of structures and materials supporting biopharmaceuticals manufacturing. Stratophase announced in January that it secured £2.5 million ($4.0 million) in follow-on funding. InProcess Instruments named Dr. Andreas Pickuth managing director in February. In February, Thermo Fisher […]

Company Announcements Helicos BioSciences President Steven J. Lombardi resigned in February, and CEO Ronald A. Lowy was named president. DNA sequencer developer Pacific Biosciences launched a partner program in February. Among the 11 initial partners are Agilent, Caliper Life Sciences, Fluidigm, NuGEN Technologies and RainDance Technologies. Gyros AB signed an exclusive distribution agreement with SCRUM […]

Company Announcements As part of a global strategic collaboration, Micromeritics is codistributing Surface Measurement Systems products in China. Biolin Scientific appointed Jan Wahlström, deputy CEO and COO, as CEO in March. HEL granted Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics Instrument brand, exclusive global distribution rights to its Subsieve AutoSizer in February. Particulate Systems was granted exclusive distribution […]

Company Announcements Cresset created the Versaphor desktop-applications division to supply tools based on its Fields (the 3D surface and electrostatic properties of molecules) technology to medicinal chemists, patent teams and others. CAMO Software opened an office in Yokohama, Japan, in March. Ingenuity Systems named Molecule Scientific its exclusive distributor for Taiwan, and Biodiagnostics a distributor […]

Company Announcements FEI’s 2009 sales declined 3.6% to $577.3 million (see IBO 3/31/10). Electronics sales fell 16.9%, Research and Industry Sales declined 3.0%, Life Sciences sales grew 15.5%, and Service and Components revenue was flat to make up 22%, 40%, 14% and 24% of sales, respectively. Veeco Instruments’ 2009 sales declined 14.2% to $380.1 million […]

Product Introductions Cole-Parmer introduced the Oakton pH 700 benchtop meter, which measures the pH, mV and temperature of up to four probes. The system features five-point calibration and recall of up to 100 data sets. Thermo Fisher Scientific released its Orion rugged dissolved oxygen (RDO) biochemical OD STAR bench meter and probe for stir-free, optical […]