Company Announcements In March, Real Time Genomics, a US subsidiary of NetValue, received a $3 million investment from Catamount Ventures. Real Time Genomics provides the SLIM Search sequence-comparison technology for genomic mapping and alignment functions that are tolerant of mismatches. Systat Software and Rescentris agreed to globally offer their joint product, the SigmaCERF electronic lab […]
Company Announcements Carl Zeiss SMT, the University of Ulm and CEOS GmbH announced a partnership to develop a low-voltage transmission electron microscope (TEM). The five-year €11.5 million ($14.7 million) project will receive €4.2 million ($5.4 million) from the German Research Foundation and €3.7 million ($4.7 million) from Carl Zeiss. NanoInk’s NanoFrabrication Systems Division appointed Quantum […]
Company Announcements In March, Merck KgaA appointed Christina Shasserre, general manger of the Laboratory Business, as global head of Bioscience. She is based at EMD Chemicals’ Bioscience site in San Diego, California, where all of EMD’s core US Bioscience capabilities will be consolidated by year end. For the fiscal year ended March 31, Biotechnology-related Business […]
Company Announcements Exiqon’s Research Product sales grew 43% in 2008. Exiqon expects the business to be cash flow positive by the end of 2009. Norgen Biotek signed an OEM manufacturing and supply agreement to supply Exiqon with RNA purification kits. Stemgent will market certain research reagents for inducible stem cell technology based on TET Systems’ […]
Company Announcements GE Healthcare and Tecan entered into a marketing collaboration for process development applications involving their respective PreDictor 96-well plates and Freedom EVO workstations. CyBio AG’s 2008 sales fell 13.4% to €16.6 million ($24.4 million) (see page 12). Adjusted for the divestment of CLS (see IBO 11/15/08) and CyBio France, sales rose 106.5%. The […]
Company Announcements Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) and Optra Systems are developing software to visualize and analyze data from high-resolution scanners. In March, OGT acquired Sense Proteomic, which uses its protein array platform to identify autoantibody signatures for biomarker discovery. Gentel will use Eprogen’s ProteoSep protein fractionation technique to create whole-proteome microarrays from individual cell lines […]
Company Announcements CovaIX AG and BioAnalyte are codeveloping software for discovering how proteins interact in large complexes. Prosolia received an NIH Small Business Technology Transfer grant to develop with Indiana University an atmospheric pressure glow discharge for direct analysis of samples under ambient conditions. Agilent announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the EPA’s […]
Company Announcements PerkinElmer is developing an interface for Agilent’s EZChrom Elite chromatography data systems to control the Clarus family of GCs. It will be available in July. Under a strategic alliance announced in February, Markes International’s thermal desorption systems (TD) and accessories are now available as OEM items through Agilent and are supported by Agilent. […]
Company Announcements Fluxion Biosciences announced exclusive distribution agreements with IUL Instruments GmbH for Germany and Austria, and with EuroClone for Italy, Spain, Portugal and countries in Eastern Europe and Northern Africa. PerkinElmer announced a collaboration with IDBS for the integration of their respective Columbus image data-management system for high-content screening (HCS) and AcitvityBase XE screening […]
Company Announcements In March, BioOptics closed a $3 million Series A financing round, led by Boulder Ventures. In conjunction, COO Richard Whitcomb was promoted to president and CEO. In March, NextGen Sciences sold its electrophoresis business, consisting of the a2Deoptimizer automated gel casting unit and the optigels large-format precast gels, to Sigma-Aldrich for $560,000 in […]
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