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Pall Corp. in late 2004 finalized the $32-million purchase of Ciphergen Biosystems Inc.’s process chromatography sorbent business. The acquisition of the BioSepra Process Division fills a crucial “missing link” in Pall’s extensive fluid management offerin

Geron Corp. in January announced a worldwide license agreement with Cambrex Bio Science Walkersville Inc. under which the Cambrex subsidiary will develop and distribute cell lines that have been immortalized using Geron’s proprietary telomerase technology

Genomics & Proteomics News Briefs

Predicant becomes the first company to gain technology rights as Caliper adopts a more expansive out-licensing strategy for its intellectual property estate

The lab-on-a-chip (LOC) field may be about to hit its stride with the recent introduction of a fully automated system by Agilent Technologies. Designed to replace gel electrophoresis steps, the Agilent 5100 ALP allows researchers to perform thousands of u

Health science heavyweight PerkinElmer and proteomics technology developer Procognia announced in mid-December a co-marketing agreement that combines PE’s Protein Array Workstation and ProScan Array HT with Procognia’s U-c lectin array-based platform to c

In late 2004, Bookham New Focus introduced the Clarity line of fluorescence filters, developed for use in analytical and diagnostic instruments, including fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, DNA sequencing, microarrays, and other fluorescence applica

Automation & Instrumentation News Briefs

Ricerca Biosciences LLC in December completed a capacity expansion of its in vivo pre-clinical testing capability and was also in the process of a similar expansion in its medicinal chemistry and chemical development services. The additional capacity was

Success of company’s Scaffold-Based Drug Discovery platform puts it on development fast track