New York, NY 12/19/07—Enzo Biochem’s Life Sciences subsidiary has signed a letter of intent to purchase 10 P’s BVBA, a Belgium-based distributor of life science products that serves the Benelux countries. Financial terms were not disclosed. “10 P’s will not only provide us with the opportunity to improve and expand relationships with the end-users of […]
Waltham, MA 12/20/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific has purchased La-Pha-Pack, a provider of chromatography consumables and accessories. Based in Langerwehe, Germany, La-Pha-Pack has revenues of approximately $25 million. “This acquisition will significantly strengthen our chromatography offering in Europe by complementing our existing specialty brand, Chromacol, which is manufactured in the UK,” said Thermo Fisher Scientific President and […]
According to government estimates, 2007 Canadian R&D spending reached almost CAD 29.0 billion ($27.1 billion), a 3.3% increase over 2006’s CAD 28.1 billion ($24.8 billion). Academia accounted for 50.0%, or CAD 459 million ($428.2 million) of the increase, and industry accounted for 45.4%, or CAD 416 million ($388.1 million). Industry was the largest performer of […]
Waltham, MA 12/19/07; Fort Lauderdale, FL 12/19/07—PerkinElmer has definitively agreed to acquire Pediatrix Medical Group’s newborn metabolic screening business and its StepOne newborn screening product for cash. Pediatrix’s newborn screening laboratories provide neonatal screening and collaborative services to hospitals, medical groups, five states (Maryland, Mississippi, Louisiana, Nebraska, Pennsylvania) and the District of Columbia. The business […]
San Diego, CA 12/21/0—-Illumina has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will reexamine four of the five patents (US Patent Nos. 5,545,531; 5,795,716; 6,355,432 and 6,646,243) that are the subject of Affymetrix’s patent infringement suit against the company. In March, a jury ruled in favor of Affymetrix, finding that Illumina infringed or […]
Wilmington, DE 12/13/07—According to documents filed with the US District Court for the District of Delaware, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has agreed to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s request to reexamine US Patent No. 4,963,736 (“Mass Spectrometer and Method Improved Ion Transmission”), held by MDS and licensed to Applera/Applied Biosystems. The patent is the […]
Datacolor introduced the Spyder3Elite and Spyder3Studio display calibration and printer profiling solutions for photographers and digital imaging professionals. Camspec released the M108 programmable Vis spectrophotometer, the result of a design, production and supply partnership with a Chinese-American company. Sensor Technologies launched the three-channel, benchtop QuantumXpert fluorescence correlation spectrometer. Quantitech released the portable InfraCal Filtometer and […]
Park Systems released the XE-NSOM/Raman AFM for near-field optical microscopy and Raman spectrometry, featuring Raman technology provided by Horiba Jobin Yvon. Leica Microsystems introduced the SD6000 Spinning Disk Confocal module for visualizing biological processes in live cells in real time. Oxford Instruments released the 50 mm2 Si(Li) transmission electron microscope (TEM) energy dispersive detector for […]
In 2007, several analytical instrument and laboratory product companies went public. However, as shown below, the stock prices for most of these companies were unable to prosper under this year’s volatile market conditions. The best performing IPO was DNA sequencer developer Helicos Biosciences (see IBO 5/31/07). The company, which has yet to officially release its […]
QIAGEN NV released the QuantiFast Probe RT-PCR Kit, featuring QuantiFast RT Mix for cDNA synthesis in 10 minutes. Analytik Jena AG introduced the compact SatelliteSC and high-end AlphaSC thermocyclers. Applied Biosystems introduced the TaqMan Array Human MicroRNA Panel, configured in an array format. Applied Biosystems launched the Fast SYVR Green Master Mix for real-time PCR. […]
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