Company Announcements Cellix named Crisel Instruments as an Italian distributor and Chromaphor Analysen-Tecknik as a German distributor. GE Healthcare named Stephen Minger, PhD, as head of R&D for Cell Technologies in September. He was previously senior lecturer and director of King’s College London’s Stem Cell Biology Laboratory. In October, Enzo Biochem Life Sciences announced a […]

Company Announcements ThalesNano appointed former New York Governor George Pataki to its Board of Advisors in September. ThalesNano named Donau Lab AG as a distributor for central Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. In October, Sigma-Alrich announced a distribution agreement for ThalesNano’s complete line of approximately 400 CatCart catalyst products for flow chemistry. […]

Company Announcements Royal Philips Electronics and Bruker BioSpin signed a memorandum of understanding in September for the development of a Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) scanner for the preclinical market. Bruker would manufacture the product, which both companies would comarket. MPI uses the magnetic properties of iron-oxide nanoparticles. Bruker BioSpin signed a memorandum of understanding with […]

Company Announcements Genetix’s first-half revenues grew 13.7% to £14.1 million ($20.9 million). Operating profit rose 59.7% to £1.2 million ($1.8 million) (see IBO 8/31/09). Sales for the clinical instrument business grew 12% to £4.8 million ($7.1 million), cell biology sales rose 20% to £4.0 million ($5.9 million), genomics-based instrument sales increased 17% to £2.1 million […]

Company Announcements BD Biosciences integrated Ingenuity’s Knowledge Base and Search and Pathway Navigation technologies into its new website. Strand Life Sciences named François Mandeville executive vice president, Marketing, Technology and Strategy. He was previously with Agilent Technologies. Biomatters and GenomeQuest integrated their respective Geneious Pro 4.8 and GenomeQuest 6.0Beta to offer a top-down discovery methodology […]

Company Announcements Sigma-Aldrich elected Dr. George M. Church to its Board in October. He is a professor of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. Sigma-Aldrich expanded its license with Sangamo BioSciences to include exclusive rights to develop and distribute zinc finger DNA binding protein-modified cell lines for commercial production of protein pharmaceuticals. STEMCELL Technologies announced […]

Company Announcements Rigaku formed Applied Rigaku Technologies (ART), a new R&D, manufacturing, sales, service and support subsidiary, which includes the EDXRF Center of Excellence in Austin, Texas. ART is an affiliated company of the Rigaku XRF product group in Japan and aims to deliver partnership-level service and support. Product Introductions InXitu introduced the BTX, a […]

Company Announcements In September, Denator AB announced an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Scientific & Medical Products for its Stabilizor T1 system. Life Technologies and febit holding GmbH entered into a strategic comarketing agreement for re-sequencing studies for their respective SOLiD next-generation sequencing system and HybSelect Sequence Capture solution. Febit also […]

Company Announcements RiNA GmbH acquired the RTS Protein Expression portfolio of cell-free expression kits from Roche Applied Science in September. 5PRIME will assume responsibility for sales, support and distribution. New England Peptide opened a West Coast development office in San Francisco, California, in September. Sigma-Aldrich will distribute BioLife Solutions’ HypoTermosol and CryoStor biopreservation media products. […]

Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific is collaborating with the integrative network biology initiative at The Institute of Cancer Research in the UK. Bruker Daltonics and the Mass Spectrometry Research Laboratory of Professor Catherine Costello at the Boston University School of Medicine are collaborating on the application of ion trap MS and FT-MS to glycomics and […]