Holliston, MA 7/1/11—Harvard Bioscience has acquired the preclinical research business of CMA Microdialysis through a purchase of assets. Microdialysis is used for in vivo sampling and monitoring of organs and tissues. “The acquisition of CMA Microdialysis’ preclinical business provides Harvard with a leading technology to add to our line of specialized tools for biological research,” […]
Stockholm, Sweden 7/6/11; Västra Frölunda, Sweden 7/6/11; Ballerup, Denmark 7/6/11—Biolin Scientific has agreed to acquire Sophion Bioscience, a provider of automated patch clamp products for ion channel research, for DKK 145 million ($28.1 million = DKK 5.15 = $1) and an additional DKK 10 million ($1.9 million) related to sales milestones. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, […]
Santa Clara, CA 7/6/11—Affymetrix has announced that it expects second-quarter revenues of $64–$65 million. This would be a 10%–11% decrease from a year ago. Product revenue is expected to be $58–$59 million for a 9%–11% decline. Product revenue includes $55 million in consumables sales and $3.5 million in instrument sales. Service revenue is estimated to […]
White Plains, NY and Yellow Springs, OH 7/11/11—ITT has definitively agreed to acquire, via merger, YSI. YSI develops and manufactures sensors, instruments, software and data collection platforms for environmental water monitoring. YSI had 2010 revenues of $101 million and employs 390 people with locations in the US, Europe and Asia. YSI will join ITT Analytics, […]
This year marks a new chapter in the second-generation (next-generation or NGS) DNA sequencing market, as a new set of NGS systems hit the market. The first generation of DNA sequencers consisted of capillary electrophoresis (CE) systems employing Sanger sequencing. Third-generation, or single-molecule, systems directly sequence DNA molecules. NGS sequencing technology, which is characterized by […]
According to a new Thomson Reuters Global Research Report, materials science research publications have grown rapidly over the last decade. Close to 60,000 materials science research articles and reviews are published annually. The figure is based on an analysis of the Web of Science database, which contains publications from 11,500 scientific journals. The figure includes […]
Label-free cell analysis is a fast-growing technology segment in the life science instrumentation industry. There are a handful of label-free cell analysis systems on the market based on measuring the impedance changes of cells in a solution. In order to perform this type of label-free cell analysis, the cells of interest are either adhered to […]
Last month, Waters released the ACQUITY UPLC I-Class System, the successor to the original ACQUITY System, which debuted seven years ago. “The system has been designed primarily to increase the capacity, which makes it ideal for LC/MS,” said Liz Hodgdon, senior product manager for Waters. She told IBO that the system is designed for customers […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies partnered with BioTeam in February to provide extended service and support for the Ion Torrent Server and Torrent Suite Software, including a subscription-based support package. In February, Ingenuity Systems announced a collaboration with Covance Genomics Laboratory for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis. Pacific Biosciences named Biomatters an Informatics and Computational Infrastructure […]
Company Announcements Kyoto University, iPS Academia Japan and iPierian entered into intellectual property agreements in February that create a unified patent estate covering induced pluripotent stem cell technology. In March, Life Technologies’ StemPro MSC (mesenchymal stem cells) SFM (serum-free medium) stem cell culture medium received FDA 501(k) clearance, which is required for researchers involved in […]
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