Harvard Bioscience Buys Anthos Labtec Assets from Beckman Coulter
June 21, 2006
Holliston, MA —Harvard Bioscience’s Austrian subsidiary, AsysHitech GmbH, has purchased select assets of the microplate reader andwasher product lines of Anthos Labtec Instruments GmbH, a BeckmanCoulter subsidiary. Financial details were not provided. “This acquisi-tion provides us with a new design platform, software and a luminescencecapability which complement our current Asys product line,” said DavidParr, managing [...]
Waters Corporation Enters Into Collaborations with Chinese Partners
June 21, 2006
Beijing, China,– Waters Corporation formally announced collaborations with the China Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control (China CDC), Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control (BJCDC) and The Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to provide technology and expertise for food safety analysis and environmental regulatory compliance. [...]
GE Healthcare to Acquire Biacore for $390 Million
June 20, 2006
Little Chalfont, UK: Stockholm, Sweden- GE Healthcare Life Sciences has agreed to acquire surface plasmon resonance company Biacore AB in an offer valued at SEK2,860 million ($390 million), net of Biacore cash and equivalents. GE Healthcare will pay SEK330 ($44.70) per share, a 17% premium over the stock’s closing price on June 19, and a [...]
June 15, 2006
Paoli, PA – AMETEK has acquired Land Instruments, a maker of infrared temperature measurement, combustion efficiency and emission monitoring instrument, from a private investor group led by private equity company 3i. Headquartered in Dronfield, UK, Land Instruments has annual sales of approximately £22 million ($41 million). “Land Instruments is an excellent addition to our high-end [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Files Suit for Infringement of RNAi Patents
June 15, 2006
St. Louis, MO; Huntsville, AL- Sigma-Aldrich and Oxford BioMedica have filed suit in US District Court against Open Biosystems. The suit alleges that Open Biosystems’ products, including the Lentiviral shRNAmir Library, infringe two patents covering lentiviral-based systems for the delivery of foreign DNA to mammalian cells that Sigma-Aldrich exclusively licensed for research use from Oxford [...]
Symyx Acquires Lab Automation Company
June 14, 2006
Santa Clara, CA 6/14/06—Symyx Technologies has acquired Autodose SA, a Swiss maker of precision powder dispensing equipment for CHF 8.5 million ($6.9 million)in cash and additional considerations up to CHF 7.7 million. AutoDose will become a subsidiary of Symyx and will serve as its European headquarters. “This acquisition underscores our commitment to serving the European [...]
AMETEK Acquires SPECTRO Analytical
June 14, 2006
Paoli, PA ; Kleve, Germany -AMETEK has acquired SPECTRO Beteiligungs GmbH, the holding company of SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH & Co. KG, for approximately €80 million ($98 million) from a group led by German Equity Partners BV. With annual sales of around €85 million ($104 million) and over 22,000 instruments shipped, SPECTRO designs and manufacturers [...]
Invitrogen and Solexa Collaborate to Supply Reagents for Next Generation Sequencing Technology;
June 13, 2006
CARLSBAD, Calif. & HAYWARD, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom--Invitrogen Corporation (Nasdaq:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for disease research and drug discovery, and Solexa, Inc. (Nasdaq:SLXA), a provider of next-generation genetic analysis systems, announced a collaboration through which Invitrogen will supply many of the reagents for Solexa's sequencing, gene expression, and small RNA [...]
Strategene and Takara Settle PCR Suits
June 12, 2006
Shiga, Japan: La Jolla, CA-Takara Bio and Stratagene have settled their patent disputes regarding enzyme blends used in PCR technology. Financial details were unavailable. “We believe that there are a number of competitors selling products that are covered under our patent portfolio. It is our intention to make limited licenses available and recognize resulting licensing [...]
Eksigent and Phenomenex Establish HPLC Marketing and Technology Alliance
June 12, 2006
Dublin, California, - Eksigent, a leading provider of capillary HPLC systems and Phenomenex, Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of HPLC columns, announce a strategic marketing and technology collaboration to develop columns optimized for capillary HPLC systems. Under the agreement, Phenomenex will offer a line of capillary HPLC columns that are tested and optimized [...]
