Lansing, MI 6/1/15—Neogen has announced the acquisition of the assets of Sterling Test House, a food testing lab based in southwest India with 40 employees. Financial details were not disclosed. “Much as we did in China, this acquisition is intended to bolster our long-term strategy of accelerating our revenue growth in critical global food safety […]
Minneapolis, MN 6/5/15—Bio-Techne has agreed to acquire Cliniqa, a manufacturer of quality controls, calibrators and bulk reagents for the clinical diagnostic market, with a primary focus on blood chemistry. Financial details were not disclosed. Cliniqa has 75 employees. “I am very pleased with this acquisition as it strengthens not only our Clinical Controls product portfolio, […]
Wetzlar, Germany and Morrisville, NC 6/1/15—Leica Microsystems has agreed to acquire Bioptigen for an undisclosed amount. Bioptigen develops and manufactures optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and software for opthalmological and translational research applications. Leica will integrate OCT into its surgical microscopes. Bioptigen products include the FDA-cleared Envisu C2300 OCT system. “Adding Bioptigen’s OCT capabilities to […]
Brussels, Belgium 6/15/15; Darmstadt, Germany 6/15/15; St. Louis, MO 6/15/15—Merck KGaA announced that the EU has granted clearance of its $17.0 billion purchase of Sigma-Aldrich (see IBO 9/30/14) but will re-quire Sigma to make certain chemical divestments, citing the risk of price increases. Sigma will divest its manufacturing assets in Seelze, Germany, where it produces […]
Company Announcements Genedata announced a collaboration with Bayer Pharma to develop a workflow management system to support the automation of the cell line–development process for mammalian cells used to produce biopharmaceuticals. In April, ChemAxon appointed Ferenc Csizmadia as CEO. He is the company’s founder and was previously chairman and head of R&D. ChemAxon has 120 […]
Ithaca, NY 6/5/15—Advion, a supplier of MS systems and life science consumables, has agreed to be acquired by Bohui Innovation Technology, a publicly traded Chinese firm that develops, manufactures and supplies diagnostics systems. “Bohui intends to fully fund Advion’s R&D projects to strengthen its market position and to promote Advion’s products in the Chinese market,” […]
Over the last few years, understanding of genetic engineering methods has progressed to a new level. The latest method involves clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR). These segments of DNA are characterized by short bacterial virus or plasmid sequences that are interspersed between a series of spacers made up of repeated bases. The function […]
Company Announcements In March, SPECTRO Analytical Instruments appointed Quantum Analytics as the exclusive distribution and financing partner for its elemental analyzers in the US. In April, Bruker Elemental announced a marketing cooperation agreement with XGLab, developer of the ELIO portable XRF system. The system joins Bruker’s US portfolio of products for art conservation. In June, […]
Company Announcements Hitachi announced the development of an atomic-resolution holography electron microscope as part of the Japanese government’s FIRST Program. Hitachi called it the first installation of a spherical-aberration corrector in an ultrahigh-voltage electron microscope. It has a resolution of 43 pm. In April, US-based Nanoscience Instruments began selling Concept Scientific Instrument’s Nano-Observer AFM system. […]
Company Announcements In May, Gardner Denver’s Medical Group acquired TriContinent Scientific, a manufacturer of precision pumps, valves and syringes, XYZ robots, microplate washers and manifolds, and pipettes and dispensers. Applied BioCode licensed its Bardcoded Magnetic Bead technology to Molecular Devices for use on its microplate reading systems within the life science research, food and beverage, […]
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