Newark, DE 10/1/12; Tulln, Austria 10/1/12—SDIX has agreed to sell its Food Safety and GMO businesses to food safety diagnostic firm Romer Labs for $13.5 million. The Food Safety business provides the RapidChek lateral flow test strips, phage-based enrichment systems and CONFIRM immunomagnetic confirmation tools for the detection of pathogens. The GMO business includes test […]
Company Announcements Great Holdings and KFP Partners acquired SpectrAlliance from Expo Technologies in March and renamed the company Prozess Technologie. Advanced Photonix entered into a value added reseller agreement in April with Automation and Control Technology for its T-Gauge measurement system. Process NMR Associates and Quantum Tessera Consulting entered into a strategic partnership in May. […]
Development of a new type of preventive cancer vaccine is generating funding for biotechnology firms and hope for new therapies. The first such vaccine to come to market was Dendreon’s Provenge, which won FDA approval in 2010 for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer and is customized for each patient. The new approach seeks to […]
Company Announcements In August, BIA Separations announced a cooperation agreement with the Centre for Bio Separations Technology at India’s VIT University. Product Introductions Advion introduced in June the affordable and easy-to-use Chip-Mate ESI chip based on a nano-LC ion source. The company also released a fit-for-purpose smaller array ESI Chip with 25 emitter nozzles. Knauer […]
Carlsbad, CA 10/8/12—Life Technologies has acquired cancer bioinformatics firm Compendia Bioscience for an undisclosed amount. Compendia Bioscience’s oncology data, including mutation profiles, gene expression data and cellular biomarkers, are used by pharmaceutical companies to identify new gene targets for drug discovery and development. “Compendia is highly regarded by its customers as a preeminent source of […]
Company Announcements Under a May collaboration agreement, Affymetrix’s QuantiGene ViewRNA In Situ Hybridization Tissue Assay will be automated on Leica Microsystem’s BOND RX staining platform for research applications. In June, Affymetrix announced a research collaboration licensing agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital to codevelop new cancer biomarker tests using its QuantiGene ViewRNA Assay platform. Affymetrix expanded […]
Company Announcements In June, STARLIMS acquired its Asia Pacific distributor, STARLIMS Australasia. Global Helix opened an office in Japan in June and selected Filgen as its exclusive distributor for the country. NextBio and the Cancer Care Institute formed a strategic partnership in June focused on the clinical use of genomics. Certara named the University of […]
On September 28, French President François Hollande announced that, despite reductions for other ministries in the 2013 budget, the Higher Education and Research Ministry will receive a 2.2% funding increase to nearly €23 billion ($29 billion), or €26 billion including funding from other ministries. The budget for research grants will increase 1.2% to €7.86 billion, […]
A report released this month by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Office of Inspector General indicates that many of the 127 immune support and weight loss supplements it analyzed did not adhere to FDA guidance. The Inspector General found that 20% of the supplements’ labels included illegal claims to prevent, diagnose or […]
Earlier this month, the European Commission (EC) released the “Communication on the Second Regulatory Review on Nanomaterials” report (the Review), along with a Working Paper on nanomaterial types and uses (the Working Paper). The Review highlighted the potential benefits of new nanomaterials and new uses, including electronics, solar panels, batteries and biomedical applications. Established uses […]
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