Company Announcements ES Cell and GE Healthcare agreed in December 2014 to cross license their respective stem cell patents for the development of cellular assays and models derived from stem cells for use in drug discovery and toxicity screening. SI BIO signed a distribution agreement in January with 2BScientific for the UK and Ireland. Indi […]
London, UK 1/22/15—Publicly held Judges Scientific has acquired Armfield, a supplier of engineering equipment and research instruments for educational applications, and R&D systems for the food, beverage, diary, vegetable oil and pharmaceutical industry. The purchase price was £8.3 million ($12.6 million = £0.66 = $1) and up to a £1.5 million ($2.3 million) earn out. […]
Ann Arbor, MI 2/2/15; Roanoke, VA 2/2/15—Advanced Photonix (API), a supplier of optoelectronic sensors, devices, and test and measurement instrumentation, has agreed to merge with Luna Innovations, which develops and manufactures fiber optic sensing, and test and measurement products, in a stock-for-stock transaction. Both companies are publicly held. For each share of API stock, API […]
Hong Kong 12/15/14; Hong Kong 12/29/14; Hong Kong 1/19/15—Shanghai-based BBI Life Sciences, a provider of life science–research products and services, has completed a public offering of its common stock on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company offered 91,815,000 shares at a price of HKD 1.75 per share ($0.23 = HKD 7.76 = $1) on […]
Washington, DC 12/15/14—The US Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial in Promega and Max Planck’s 2010 suit against Life Technologies, now Thermo Fisher Scientific, for infringement of five patents related to multiplex amplification of STR loci. In 2012, the jury’s $52 million award for Promega (see IBO 2/29/12) was overturned for failure to […]
Tokyo, Japan 2/15/15—Hitachi High-Technologies has named Masahiro Miyazaki as president and CEO, effective April 1. Mr. Miyazaki currently serves as senior vice president and executive officer, general manager, Corporate Strategy Division, Fine Technology Systems Business Division and CSO. He replaces Masao Hisada, who is retiring.
Despite improvements in the US and China and in pharmaceutical and academic markets, currency effects curtailed sales and profit growth for major publicly held instrument and laboratory-product businesses in the fourth quarter of 2014. For the year, the businesses maintained revenue growth, helped by pharmaceutical sales and improved academic markets. Combined sales for the six […]
Epigenetics, the study of heritable phenotypic changes that are not attributable to changes in DNA sequence, is a rapidly advancing field that is increasingly providing insight into a range of genetic phenomena. Epigenetic changes regulate gene expression independent of genetic sequence. Questions addressed by the field include cell differentiation, tumorogenesis and expression of traits inherited […]
Held for the first time in Washington, DC, the SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening) 2015 conference and exhibit hosted 4,964 attendees and 296 exhibitors at the Walter E. Washington Conference Center, February 7–11. Attendance declined 14.7% from 2014, when the show was held in San Diego, California (see IBO 1/31/14), but was up […]
Gel electrophoresis uses electrical charge to separate macromolecules, such as DNA, RNA and proteins, by size or charge within a matrix. The matrix, or gel, is typically made of agarose or polyacrylamide. Samples are loaded into wells at the edge of a gel along with a ladder— a premade mixture of molecules with a known […]
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