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Articles in Nov 30, 2007 issue of Instrument Business Outlook

• New partnerships, new opportunities
• Quarterly sales buck seasonal slowdown
• Dako flow cytometry business sold to Beckman Coulter
• Analytik Jena adds microarrays to bioinstrumentation business
• IDEX invests in flow monitoring
• Two companies delay IPOs
• Electrophoresis company acquired
• Servomex acquires process GC company
• Two IBO indexes thankful for positive returns
• Under a comarketing agreement, Sigma-Aldrich Research Specialties is selling Hy-Energy's PCTPro-2000 gas sorption analyzer and related materials
• Horiba
• Zwick Roell
• Zwick Roell
• MTS Systems
• Malvern Instruments
• In November, Horiba Instruments agreed to exclusively distribute Clemex Technologies' Clemex PS3 particle size and shape analysis instrument in the Americas
• RheoSense
• Tinius Olsen
• Mettler-Toledo
• Mettler-Toledo
• Horiba
• Anton Paar GmbH
• Wyatt Technology
• Malvern Instrument
• Thermo Fisher Scientific
• US Academic R&D spending
• Molecular Sensing exclusively licensed Vanderbilt University's technology
• ForteBio
• NextGen Sciences
• Precision System Science reported fiscal 2007 sales rose 1.7% to [yen] 3,698 million
• Sequenom will develop a third-generation single molecular nucleic acid analysis technology based on an exclusive license from Harvard University
• DeltaDOT received 3 million [pounds sterling] in a fourth round of funding
• 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, and Perlegen will collaborate to conduct a large-scale genetic resequencing of hundreds of DNA samples
• Helicos BioSciences
• Akubio, a developer of acoustic biosensor technology, entered administration in September
• Luminex reached a settlement with its spinout Rules Based Medicine
• Farfield Scientific launched the Cellulose AnaChip, developed in collaboration with YKI
• Seno Medical Instruments
• Arcxis Biotechnologies
• Sequenom
• Applied Biosystems
• Decision Sciences exclusively licensed Los Alamos National Laboratory's Muon Tomography technology for detection of nuclear and other weapons in car and vehicles
• Smiths Detection LiveWire exclusively licensed Argonne National Laboratory's PROTECT warning system
• Bm-t Beteiligungsmanagement Thuringen GmbH and Erfurt and Deutsche Effecten- und Wechsel-Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG acquired a 31% and 39% stake
• OSI Systems
• In September, NanoSensors terminated business operations and repositioned the company as a shell company
• Smiths Detection's fiscal 2007 revenues rose 6%, 10% in constant currency, to 438 million [pounds sterling] and operating profit grew 6%, 10% in constant currency, to 79 million [pounds sterling]
• Acro has agreed to acquire RAY Detection Technology
• Smiths Detection named Sionex a partner in its UK Ministry of Defense contract
• In October, OSI Systems entered into a private label distribution agreement with Brijot Imaging Systems
• InfrAegis
• ICx Technologies
• ICx
• Smiths Detection
• GE Security's CTX 9400 achieved US Transportation Security Administration certification in October
• OSI
• Market profile: cell disrupters
• The bottom line