Waltham, MA 7/18/11; Basingstoke, England 7/18/11—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired TREK Diagnostic Systems from Magellan Biosciences for an undisclosed amount. TREK Diagnostic Systems provides microbiology solutions, including blood culture, micro-organism identification and antibiotic susceptibility products. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, TREK had 2010 revenues of $34 million. “Advances in automation and the development of more rapid […]
New Castle, DE 7/27/11—TA Instruments, a Waters’s company, has acquired Anter Corporation and Anter Laboratories. Anter is a manufacturer of high-performance systems that measure thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and heat capacity of a wide range of materials. “This acquisition adds powerful technologies which complement TA Instruments’ market leading thermal analysis product line,” said […]
Thanks to the new ASTM annex, D7566-11, the 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions that is contributed by passenger jets will be reduced. Standards for testing the “second generation” of biofuels, derived from inedible plants, tallows (animal fats) and organic waste, have been approved to power commercial planes. ASTM has approved testing standards for a […]
In January, when IBO issued its industry forecast for 2011 (see IBO 1/15/11), we were just coming off a year of robust growth and a sense of euphoria. The question was: could we keep up the momentum? Of course, we thought. Early in the year, without the benefit of fourth-quarter results from the previous year, […]
Atomic absorbance (AA) spectroscopy is one of the most common techniques for elemental analysis in the lab. Standard flame or graphite furnace AA can analyze most elements with little difficulty and with excellent detection levels. However, certain elements present particular difficulties with AA due to their atomic and chemical natures. On the periodic table, these […]
It may not yet be a household name like competitors Bruker or JASCO, but BioTools is holding its own, thanks to a risky investment ten years ago. The firm was incorporated in 2000 with the goal of commercializing vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and Raman optical activity (ROA) spectrometers. “We were the first company to commercialize […]
Company Announcements In April, Oxford Nanopore raised $41 million in new funding via a private placement of ordinary shares. Dolomite signed a collaboration agreement to exclusively distribute Sphere Fluidics’ picodroplet products and to develop and sell new picodroplet products. Pacific Biosciences announced in May a collaboration with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in areas […]
Company Announcements Sage-N Research and Nonlinear Dynamics agreed to comarket their respective SORCERER proteomics platform and Progeneis LC/MS label-free quantification software. In May, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics entered into a comarketing agreement for Bruker’s MALDI Biotyper MALDI-TOF MS system for microbial identification. In June, Prosolia named GSG Meß- und Analysengeräte a distributor for its Omni Spray […]
Company Announcements In May, RainDance Technologies named Andy Watch vice president and chief marketing officer. Most recently, he was vice president of SOLiD Sequencing Product Management at Life Technologies. RainDance Technologies announced in June a multiyear collaboration with Sony DADC Austria for the codevelopment and manufacture of microdroplet-based “smart consumables.” The first product released is […]
Company Announcements The Automation Partnership changed its name to TAP Biosystems in March. In March, Tecan entered into an agreement to commercialize products based on HP’s inkjet-dispensing technology for pharmaceutical drug discovery. The digital drug titration device enables the fast delivery of picoliter to microliter sample volumes. Tecan will provide exclusive sales, marketing, service and […]
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