Tools & Techniques

With the $11-million purchase of Transfluor technology assets from Xsira Pharmaceuticals in early March, Molecular Devices Corp. officials say the company significantly strengthened its position as a provider of tools for imaging and G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) assays.

Nanotechnology and materials specialist NanoHorizons announced early in February that it had been issued a patent for its deposited thin-film system, QuickMass, for high-throughput small-molecule MS.

In late January, Thermo Electron announced that it would dramatically enhance its product portfolio by acquiring Kendro Laboratory Products, a division of SPX Corp.

In an effort to speed adoption of the company’s flagship product, the AFRICA flow microreactor, Syrris Inc. last month opened its first U.S. office in Ridgewood, N.J. smack in the heart of the East Coast pharmaceutical hotbed.

In a move that further broadens its offerings in bioinformatics software, Tripos Inc. closed its acquisition earlier this month for Austin, Texas-based Optive Research, a two-year old technology and software spinout of the University of Texas at Austin.

Funding boosts capital pool by $11.8 million and adds informatics expertise

With $100 million in its coffers, Amgen Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund initiated by Amgen Inc. in late 2004, will provide monetary assistance for emerging biotechnology companies that work in Amgen’s areas of interest related to human therapeu

After several months of discussions, GenoLogics Life Sciences Software Inc., based here, and Nonlinear Dynamics of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, have entered into a global partnership agreement that will result in an integrated protein informatics softwar

Bioinformatics 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