Pune, India 5/31/11—Persistent Systems, an India-based provider of outsourced software product development, has agreed to acquire Agilent’s software and marketing and development business based in Grenoble, France. The business is focused on supplying data acquisition and control software for instruments in life science, environmental, energy, applied research and other markets. “Agilent and Persistent have had […]
Lansing, MI 6/20/11—Microbiology kit firm Neogen has purchased the assets of the VeroMara seafood-testing laboratory from GlycoMar, an early-stage discovery company, for an undisclosed amount. VeroMara’s services include testing for shellfish toxins and general foodborne pathogens. The company has annual revenues of $800,000. “VeroMara’s services are complementary and a nice fit with our existing product […]
Essen, Germany 6/28/11—Elster has acquired the GC assets, including intellectual property, of SLS Micro Technology. Elster offers solutions for electricity, gas and water measurement and control providers. It had 2010 sales of $1.8 billion. “The addition of this innovative gas chromatography technology from SLS further strengthens Elster’s position in the emerging biogas and shale gas […]
Austin, TX 6/21/11; Austin, TX 6/27/11—Luminex has acquired EraGen Biosciences, which provides molecular diagnostic testing technologies for infectious disease and genetic applications, for $34 million in cash. EraGen Biosciences’ MultiCode platform is designed for both real-time PCR and multiplex PCR-based applications and includes FDA-cleared products, analyte-specific reagents and research use–only products. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, […]
Instrument and laboratory product companies brought new employees on board last year, indicating the strength of their recovery following the 2009 recession. In fiscal 2010, productivity growth for 20 major publicly held laboratory instrument and product companies climbed 5.1%, compared with a decline of 2.5% in fiscal 2009 for the same companies (see IBO 6/30/10). […]
Apprehensions over the strength of the US economy and the sovereign debt crisis in Greece sent equity markets tumbling in early June. For the first half of the month, ending June 15, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 5.4%. However, equity prices regained some ground as investors focused on the new austerity measures in Greece […]
Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services provided Congress with fiscal 2012 budget details for the proposed National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The NCATS would replace the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) as one of the 27 centers and institutes that comprise the NIH. NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins […]
As the application of LC/MS entered ever more challenging areas, the demand for an added dimension of differentiation was needed, which helped to give rise to ion mobility–enabled MS. Several major vendors now offer the technology. Ion mobility is a technique that utilizes an applied electric field to separate molecular ions based on their mobility […]
At ASMS 2011, several companies discussed future product introductions. AB SCIEX announced at its press conference that it expects to obtain IVD-CE marking for its API 3200 triple quadrupole system and 3200 QTRAP triple quadrupole/linear ion trap LC/MS systems by the end of the year, enabling the use of the systems in Europe for clinical […]
Company Announcements Roche 454 Life Sciences and RainDance Technologies announced in March that they will develop and commercialize a targeted next-generation sequencing solution for ADME and will launch a core ADME gene-screening research panel that enables the detection of known and unknown functional mutations associated with drug metabolism and response. Fluidigm’s 2010 revenues increased 32.3% […]
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