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Articles in Oct 15, 2006 issue of Instrument Business Outlook
- The clinical proteomic technology centers
- Sigma-Aldrich buys chiral chromatography firm
- Beckman Coulter expands chemistry offerings
- Beckman Coulter adds to assay miniaturization capabilities
- 3M acquires Biotrace
- VWR acquires Singaporean distributor
- Q2 operating profit decline for Life Science Index
- EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard: oil & gas R&D grows
- Government
- Metals
- Pharmaceuticals
- China
- Brazil
- EU
- Business Climate Survey: optimism amid uncertainty
- In April, IDEAL Industries, a manufacturer of professional quality tools, acquired Casella Measurement
- California Analytical Instruments acquired Liston Scientific, a provider of gas analyzers
- Applikon Analytical named five new distributors
- LumaSense Technologies acquired Innova AirTech Systems A/S in July
- Alesco's Scientific and Medical Division acquired App-Tek Group, a manufacturer of gas detection equipment
- ADS, a Nova Analytics company, acquired Severn Trent Pipeline Services
- Under a strategic agreement, the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry of the University of Washington will use Aspectrics' EP-IR MultiComponent 500 analyzers to develop advanced BTX
- Siemens
- Siemens
- ABB
- Severn Trent Services
- AppliTek NV
- Metara
- X-Rite
- SpectraSensors
- Baseline-MOCON
- SEQUENOM: Betty Dragon
- SEQUENOM: A. Michael Monko
- In August, Paul W. Hawran, CFO at Neurocrine Biosciences, joined SEQUENOM
- Luminex
- New England Biolabs will provide Solexa with certain key enzymes and other reagents for use with the Solexa Genome Analysis System
- Solexa
- In August, Joseph Whitters, former CFO of First Health Group, joined Solexa's Board
- A. Blaine Bowman, former president and CEO of Dionex, and Roy Whitfield, former CEO of Incyte, joined Solexa's Board
- SRU Biosystems stated in August that a district court rejected Corning's injunction and entered its proposal
- In August, Olympus signed an exclusive Japanese distribution agreement for VisEn Medical's fluorescence molecular tomography imaging systems
- Under a partnership agreement, Royal Philips Electronics and BG Medicine will develop molecular healthcare products
- Caliper Life Sciences
- Cambridge Research & Instrumentation and Invitrogen will jointly promote the use of CRi's Maestro small animal
- Caliper Life Sciences
- Axela Biosensors
- Kreatech Biotechnology BV is marketing QIAGEN NV's REPLI-g Whole Genome Amplification Kits in combination with its Universal Linkage System
- In July, Beckman Coulter acquired an in vitro diagnostics product license to all real-time PCR patents and pending patent applications controlled by Roche Diagnostics
- Invitrogen and Prodesse signed a license agreement in July for the first diagnostics assays
- In August, Fisher HealthCare became the exclusive distributor of Nanogen's MGB
- A trust managed by Drug Royalty acquired an interest in royalties on Nanogen's MGB technology for 5' nuclease real-time PCR applications for biomedical research for $20 million
- Under a strategic alliance announced in August, Warnex will combine its pathogen detection kits and software with Eppendorf AG's Mastercycler ep realplex real-time PCR system
- Stratagene entered into a joint development and license agreement with Rosetta Inpharmatics, a unit of Merck & Co., to create an automated solution for the isolation of nucleic acids from a variety of clinical samples
- In September, Takara Bio and its Clontech Laboratories subsidiary entered into license agreements with Applied Biosystems
- In the first half of 2006, Cepheid's total revenues declined 2% to $40.0 million
- Enzo Biochem acquired licenses from LBS Technologies for linear amplification technology
- Applied Biosystems
- Applied Biosystems
- NuGEN
- As part of a research collaboration with Jacobi Medical Center to develop a genetic screening platform for neonatal, prenatal and maternal/adult healthcare
- PerkinElmer entered into multi-year research agreements with John Hopkins University and the University of Birmingham, UK
- PerkinElmer entered into a multi-year license and research collaboration agreement with the University of Leicester, UK
- Waters
- Bruker Daltonics was named the exclusive worldwide manufacturer of Ibis Pharmaceuticals' T5000 biosensor systems
- Bruker Daltonics licensed Health Discovery's Support Vector Machine pattern recognition technology
- Under an expanded cooperative marketing agreement, Proteome Systems will provide Agilent
- Cohesive Technologies entered into a collaborative agreement with the Mayo Clinic
- Waters will develop its ACQUITY UPLC System software controls for use with Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX's
- Thermo Electron
- Thermo Electron
- Varian
- Bruker Daltonics
- Bruker Daltonics
- China's Ministry of Health, PerkinElmer
- Market profile: animal ultrasound imaging
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