Company Announcements Frank Witney, president and CEO of Dionex, resigned from Transgenomic’s Board in May. Proteome Sciences licensed Axela’s dotLab System to develop assays to measure its brain damage biomarkers. Axela obtained an option to license the assays for research and diagnostic use. In June, Luminex established an office in Shanghai, China. Luminex named Michael […]
Company Announcements Roche Applied Science opened an Application Support Center in Shanghai, China, in May. Thermo Fisher Scientific named two new directors in May: Thomas J. Lynch, CEO of Tyco Electronics, and Tyler Jacks, PhD, David H. Koch professor of Biology at MIT. MDS Analytical Technologies appointed Bio-Strategy as its new distributor for Australia and […]
Company Announcements Park Systems appointed Techcomp as its exclusive Chinese distributor. Masscal Scientific Instruments and NanoSpective announced a collaborative partnership in April. JPK Instruments AG named Bucher Biotec AG as its exclusive representatives in Switzerland. JPK Instruments AG opened a Japanese office in July. In May, Leica Microsystems GmbH licensed four patents named to Dr. […]
Company Announcements Novus Biologicals opened its first international office in Cambridge, UK, this spring. Between 15% and 20% of the company’s business is generated in Europe. In May, Jerini AG agreed to sell JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH to TheraCode GmbH, a subsidiary of BioNTech AG, for €5 million ($7 million) in cash. Under a May […]
Company Announcements PerkinElmer and Accelrys integrated their respective Columbus image data management system for high-content screening (HCS) and Pipeline Pilot data analysis and reporting platform. GE Healthcare agreed in April to commercialize Cytori Therapeutics’ StemSource technology in the North American stem cell banking and research markets. The technology includes automated equipment to process stem and […]
Company Announcements Overbrook Scientific agreed to distribute Phytronix Technologies’ Laser Diode Thermal Desorption ionization technology in the US. In May, Bruker announced that its MALDI Biotyper workflow for microbial identification in clinical microbiology obtained the IVD-CE Mark. Bruker also formed US collaborations for the clinical validation of the workflow for micro-organism identification. Bruker Daltonik GmbH […]
Product Introductions Advanced Chemistry Development released the ACD/NMR Workbook with NMRSync Technology, which reduces the time required to interpret and assign 1D and 2D NMR data. It is available with ACD/Labs Version 12. In May, Varian introduced the Discovery MR901 pre-clinical 7T magnetic resonance imaging system, featuring Varian’s small-bore imaging technology and a clinical front […]
Company Announcements Biotage AB expanded its outsourcing collaboration with PartnerTech, which will take over most instrument manufacturing. Running initially through 2011, the agreement is worth approximately SEK 40 million ($5 million) annually. Manufacturing will be relocated from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Åtvidaberg, Sweden. Syrris reported 80% growth in the first half of 2009. Syrris incorporated its […]
Company Announcements GeneGo and OmicSoft integrated their respective MetaCore pathway analysis platform and Array Studio. Accelrys’s fiscal 2009 revenues for the year ended March 31 rose 1.6% to $81.0 million. Operating loss decreased from $855,000 in the previous year to $319,000 (see IBO 6/15/09). US sales rose 0.5%, European sales fell 1.6% and Asia-Pacific sales […]
Company Announcements In April, a class action complaint was filed in federal court in Maryland against the Republic of Iraq, VWR, Thermo Fisher Scientific (previously Oxoid) and Alcolac (whose assets are owned by Rhodia). The suit alleges violation of the Geneva Convention, UN Security Council resolutions and international law, as well as negligence, strict liability, […]
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