The convergence of highly capable instruments and the need for their performance in many applications is helping the market for TOF GC/MS (GC-TOF) to finally begin taking off. Despite a strong array of products from smaller MS competitors, the technology has now been validated in the eyes of many end-users thanks to the entrance of […]
Illumina has recently been at the center of acquisition-related activity and announcements. The company purchased two companies, Verinata Health and Moleculo, in January (see IBO 1/15/13). It also ended its pursuit of another. On January 8, the company announced it had withdrawn its offer to acquire sequencing service provider Complete Genomics (see IBO 11/30/12). The […]
Late last year, Biocartis began shipping its first commercial product. The biomarker detection platform utilizes the company’s Dynamic Multi-Analyte Technology (DMAT), allowing users to measure 2,000 analytes simultaneously. Most technologies cannot measure nucleic acids and proteins simultaneously, so different technologies or systems are required, said Allison Ballmer, global marketing manager for the DMAT platform. The […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems announced in November 2012 a long-term collaboration with LabCorp to license and deploy its clinical content and applications to rapidly review and annotate clinically relevant sequence variations. Cartagenia integrated Interactive Biosoftware’s Alamut gene visualization software into its BENCHlab platform, a web-based software and database platform that interprets genomic variation in routine […]
Company Announcements Protea named new distributors: Yair Technologies for Israel, BioAnalytic for Poland, Irida Iberica for Spain and Portugal, and IDL Teknolojik for Turkey. Bruker announced in October 2012 a collaboration with Nextval for high-throughput screening of drugs and their metabolites using its ultrafleXtreme MALDI-TOF/TOF. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a collaboration with Immundiagnostik to develop […]
Company Announcements As the result of an expanded licensing and commercialization relationship with Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Rockland Immunochemicals now markets CellCountEZ, OxPhos, RadDose and Intracelluar ThioEZ assays and additional products. StemCells partnered with R Biomedical to develop and commercialize a range of cell lines and reagents to facilitate human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) […]
Company Announcements Horizon Technology appointed Board member Dr. Peter Brown as CEO in September 2012. Previously, he served as general manager of VG Elemental. Claremont BioSolutions announced in October 2012 a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel for its Prep-on-a-Chip. Pressure BioSciences signed a supplier agreement with Cole-Parmer for its PBI Shredder SG3 […]
The European Commission (EC) announced the two winners of its Future and Emerging Technologies competition to fund groundbreaking, large-scale research initiatives involving multiple scientific fields and EU states. Graphene, led by Professor Jari Kinaret of Sweden’s Chalmers University, involves more than 100 research groups and has an initial budget of €54 million ($73 million) over […]
South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye has announced a restructuring of government ministries, including the creation of the Ministry of Future Creation and Science. The new Ministry will incorporate the duties of the former Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, as well as the responsibilities of the Korean Communications Commission for information and communication technology. The […]
BIO Deutschland’s annual survey of German biotechnology companies, which involved 143 companies in December 2012, found 44% of respondents plan to increase R&D spending this year, compared with 40% in last year’s survey. However, 54% plan to keep R&D spending the same, compared with 56% a year ago. Although 95% indicate their current business situation […]
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