Beverly, MA and Boulder, CO 9/6/13—Enzymatics, a producer of reagents, kits and assays, has acquired ArcherDx, a developer of kits and software for next generation sequencing (NGS) for use in investigating cancer treatments, for cash, equity and potential milestones worth up to $50 million. Enzymatics stated that the acquisition expands its Enzymatics Diagnostics group, adding […]
Billerica, MA 9/12/13—Bruker has acquired Prairie Technologies, a supplier of life science fluorescence microscopy products, for an undisclosed amount. Prairie had 2012 revenues of $11 million and has 30 employees. “Their Ultima two-photon microscopy product line and the new Opterra swept field multipoint scanning confocal fluorescence product line present new exciting areas of growth for […]
Marcy l’Etoile, France 9/3/13—IVD firm bioMérieux has agreed to acquire PCR provider BioFire Diagnostics for $450 million and BioFire’s net financial debt. BioFire manufactures the multiplex PCR FilmArray System for the diagnosis of infectious disease. Based in Utah with 500 employees, BioFire is estimated to have 2013 revenues of $70 million, including $40 million in […]
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, extracts natural gas from underground shale by drilling vertically and then horizontally and injecting water, chemicals and proppants under high pressure into the well to release the trapped gas. According to the Energy Information Administration, US production of shale gas increased from 1,990,145 million cubic feet (mcf) in 2007 to 8,500,983 […]
As the use of single-use technologies for bioprocessing grows, sensor manufacturers have expanded their offerings to include single-use sensors for pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) measurements. These sensors are typically incorporated into another manufacturer’s disposable bioreactor system and sold to customers as a single unit. The two types of single-use sensors utilized in such systems […]
Major US equity markets were volatile in August due to uncertainty surrounding the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy, potential military intervention in Syria and mixed economic data. In the US, second quarter GDP was revised up from 1.7% growth to 2.5% growth and unemployment claims declined to a five-year low. However, US orders for both […]
Triple quadrupole LC/MS has established itself as the leading MS technique, as it can provide extremely accurate quantitation of trace level compounds in almost any type of sample. This has made it popular across a diverse range of industries and applications. Despite the size and relative maturity of the market, competitors have continued to enter […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems, a QIAGEN firm, and Affymetrix announced in April they will copromote the Ingenuity iReport with Affymetrix expression microarray products. Real Time Genomics and the J. Craig Venter Institute announced in May a long term strategic collaboration to understand de novo mutations for stem cell progression studies and to deliver validated datasets. […]
Company Announcements In June, CovaIX and Bruker Daltonics announced a strategic collaboration. They jointly support the CovalX High Mass Detection System for all autoflex and ultraflex series instruments and provide new and existing Bruker MALDI customers with access to CovalX applications for protein identification and macromolecular analysis. Waters named the Flavor Research and Education Center […]
Company Announcements Oxford Nanopore licensed technology from the University of Cambridge for a hybrid nanopore that combines a solid state nanopore and DNA origami, which are small, well-controlled shapes made of DNA. Bloomberg reported that Illumina’s agreement related to Oxford Nanopore exonuclease sequencing technology will expire in 2016. Illumina holds a 15% stake in Oxford […]
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