Millipore to Sell Guava’s Flow Cytometers

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Billerica, MA and Hayward, CA 3/4/08­—Milipore has announced that it will exclusively distribute Guava Technologies’ nonclinical flow cytometers within defined fields in North America, Europe and countries in Asia. Millipore will also provide field service and develop cobranded reagent kits. In addition, the companies will jointly develop new instruments.

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Merck Acquires HPLC Column Company

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Darmstadt, Germany 2/29/08—Merck KGaA has acquired SeQuant AB, a developer of silican-gel and polmer-based sorbents for ZIC-HILIC (zwitterionic hydrophilic interaction chromatography). SeQuant has joined Merck’s Performance & Life Science Chemicals division. “[SeQuant] offers Merck superb opportunities for the future expansion of the chromatography business,” stated Klaus Bischoff, head of Merck Performance & Life Science Chemicals. […]

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Digestion

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Digestion is a widely used sample preparation method and a primary dissolution method for several industries. Digesters typically feature a standard hotplate design or microwave technology, which heats a sample, breaking it down into its constituents. Standard hotplate/block digesters use conventional acids like hydrochloric and nitric acids, usually in open flasks or other glass containers. […]

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Academia

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The United States Council for Aid Education’s Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey, which tracks data from 1,023 institutions, reports that charitable contributions to US colleges and universities increased 63% in 2007 to $29.75 billion. Twenty institutions raised $7.66 billion in total for 2007, making up 25.8% of all contributions to colleges and universities. The […]

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Life Science Instruments: Company Announcements

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Mobious, which is developing molecular resonance sequencing technology, joined the X Prize competition last year (see IBO 12/31/07). Covaris entered into a supply and distribution agreement with Applied Biosystems for its S2 sample preparation instrument system for use with Applied Biosystems’ SOLiD DNA sequencer. Microfluidics developer RainDance Technologies appointed Christopher McNary president and CEO. He […]

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Security Technologies: Company Announcements

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TraceGuard Technologies signed a letter of intent with Smiths Detection to cooperate in marketing its CompactSafe Automated Trace Extraction system. TraceGuard Technologies appointed Avi Kostelitz CEO in January. He was formerly CEO of the Israel Airports Authority. As part of a management buyout, Midwest Research Institute made a $1.3 million investment in biological detection firm […]

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RNAi Dispute Resolved

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St. Louis, MO 3/7/08—Sigma-Aldrich and Oxford Biomedica have settled their patent litigation against Open Biosystems (see IBO 6/15/06). Under the confidential settlement, Open Biosystems will acquire certain license rights for use of Oxford BioMedica’s LentiVector gene delivery technology in research activities. Other details were not disclosed.

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Italy

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Blossom Associati and Assobiotec report that since 2000 the Italian biotech industry has grown 7% on average, adding about 15 new companies per year. Sales of Italian biotech products and licensing operations have reached $5.5 billion, or 0.04% of the Italian GDP. From 2006 to 2007, the value of the country’s biotech market increased 19.3%. […]

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Chemicals

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Chemical firms will increase their capital spending 8.6% to nearly $8.8 billion, according to an early February survey of 17 companies by Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). For 2007, C&EN reports that the actual capital spending of the 18 companies surveyed increased by 13.2% to $8.1 billion. Survey results from 14 companies indicate R&D spending […]

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