San Diego, CA 7/28/14—Independent service organization (ISO) Zef Scientific has filed suit against Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) in US District Court for the Southern District of California, alleging monopolization, restraint of trade, tortious interference with contractual relations, tortious interference with prospective business advantage, and unfair competition. In the complaint, Zef states that SSI changed its […]
San Diego, CA 8/21/14; London, England 8/21/14—Illumina has formed collaborative partnerships with AstraZeneca, Janssen Biotech and Sanofi to develop a universal next-generation sequencing (NGS)–based oncology test system. The system will be used for clinical trials of targeted cancer therapies with a goal of developing and commercializing a multigene panel for therapeutic selection. The partnership involves […]
Calendar-year second quarter revenues for major, publicly held analytical instrument companies showed steady growth, despite purchase delays in China and uneven academic spending. Combined quarterly revenues for seven businesses whose quarterly results are profiled on pages 9–11 grew 4.8%, or 4.4% on an organic basis. Illumina recorded double-digit sales growth, while revenues for Bio-Rad Laboratories […]
As part of its move into the clinical market, Illumina has formed a collaboration with pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca, Janssen Biotech and Sanofi to develop a companion-diagnostic test for oncology based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) (see page 2). Intending to extend the partnership to additional companies, Illumina plans to develop the Universal Oncology Test System, to […]
Company Announcements In May, QIAGEN cofounder Dr. Detlev Riesner stepped down from the Supervisory Board. Dr. Elaine Mardis, codirector of the Genome Institute at Washington University and the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine, was proposed as a new member. Endress+Hauser revenues rose over 7% in 2013 to €1.8 billion ($2.4 […]
Bioreactors are vessels for cell culturing and have been widely used for much of the past century. Systems employ glass vessels for smaller applications (up to 20 L) and stainless steel tanks for larger reactions, and were cleaned or autoclaved and reused. In the past decade, the technology underwent a technological change with the introduction […]
Company Announcements In May, Igenbio opened an office in Japan. In June, One Lambda, a Thermo Fisher Scientific company, gained exclusive rights to GenoDive Pharma’s long-range primers and amplification conditions for HLA-locus–specific amplification in order to develop an IVD next-generation sequencing (NGS) kit. Rubicon Genomics added multiple European distributors, including Cambridge Bioscience for the UK […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific and Evans Analytical Group announced in May a collaboration to add pulsed ion-source technology to glow-discharge MS. In June, Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into a collaboration with Nuclea Biotechnologies to develop multiplexed-MS–based research methods for high-throughput quantification of native insulin and its therapeutic analogs. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in June […]
Company Announcements Johnson Matthey reported that 2013 sales for Alfa Aesar were flat at £79 million ($123 million). Avantor Performance Materials named Helen Evans as vice president, Laboratory Products, in April. Most recently, she served as general manager, Research Markets, US and Canada, for GE Healthcare. In May, Avantor Performance Materials appointed Michael Stubblefield as […]
The winners of IBO’s portable analytical instrument design awards are products that are not only compact and stylish but address the unique challenges of doing analyses outside of the laboratory. A portable instrument is defined as one that is battery powered and is designed to be transported and used outside of a lab. Gold Award […]
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