Articles from Instrument Business Outlook (May 15, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
3M to buy CUNO for $1.35 billion.		Brief Article	272
Advanced ChemTech sells synthesizer division.		Brief Article	139
Applied Biosystems and Phenomenome Discoveries will collaborate to develop software.		Brief Article	28
Applied Biosystems and Roche settle lawsuits and expand PCR licensing.		Brief Article	192
Applied Biosystems announced a joint, research protocol with the Cohort Consortium of the National Cancer Institute for the study of breast and prostate cancer.		Brief Article	45
Applied Biosystems expanded its collaboration with Stanford University and University of Miami to continue the study of genetic biomarkers associated with treatment response and survival in diffuse large B cell lymphoma, the most common form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.		Brief Article	55
Applied Biosystems.		Brief Article	45
Beckman Coulter.		Brief Article	47
Becton, Dickinson acquires electrophoresis maker.		Brief Article	150
Cambrex Bio Science Walkersville licensed Geron's telomerase technology.		Brief Article	21
Cambrex Bio Science Workingham agreed to purchase Xcellsyz's conditionally immortalized cell lines.		Brief Article	17
Carl Zeiss AG.		Brief Article	17
Cepheid's 2004 revenues rose 186% to $53.0 million.		Brief Article	83
Cepheid.		Brief Article	18
Chemicon International, a Serologicals subsidiary, acquired the assets of Specialty Media, a division of Cell & Molecular Technology, for $6.5 million in cash.		Brief Article	55
Contract research lab MicroConstants installed a second Waters Micromass Quattro Premier LC/MS/MS.		Brief Article	16
Corning Life Sciences.		Brief Article	43
Evotec Technologies acquires Zeiss uHTS product line.			182
Executives reap the rewards of performance last year.		Illustration	4899
FEI and IMEC, a European nanoelectronics and nanotechnology research center, commenced a joint development project.		Brief Article	25
FEI reported 2004 sales increased 29% to $465.7 million and bookings grew 41% to $504.1 million.		Brief Article	56
FEI.		Brief Article	23
FEI.		Brief Article	33
First quarter lab instrument sales index growth slows.			1352
GE Healthcare became the exclusive Japanese distributor of Dharmacon's RNAi research products in 2004.		Brief Article	21
Illumina.		Brief Article	29
In April, Applied Biosystems and MDS Sciex launched the 3200 QTRAP triple quadrupole-linear ion trap MS, priced at $250,000, and the bench-top API 3200 triple quad LC/MS/MS, priced at $220,000.		Brief Article	46
In February, Roche Diagnostics announced that the European Patent Office's Technical Board of Appeals maintained in slightly amended form Roche's European Patent No. 0395736 directed to DNA sequences encoding native and modified thermostable Thermus aquaticus (Taq) DNA polymerases and method for preparing such polymerases.		Brief Article	51
In January, MDS Pharma Services became the first contract research organization to adopt Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex's API 5000 LC/MS/MS for small molecule quantification studies.			39
In January, Roche granted Idaho Technology worldwide access to its PCR patents for in vitro diagnostics.		Brief Article	40
In March, Agilent and Bruker Daltonics announced a multiyear extension of their ion trap MS and LC/capillary electrophoresis OEM agreement.		Brief Article	68
JEOL.		Brief Article	12
Leica Microsystems.		Brief Article	24
Market profile: near-field scanning microscopy.			504
Molecular Devices.		Brief Article	16
Nanosurf AG installed its 500th scanning tunneling microscope.		Brief Article	20
NextGen Sciences licensed the flashBAC technology from Oxford Brookes University for protein expression.		Brief Article	26
Nikon Instruments.		Brief Article	32
QIAGEN and the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility signed a three-year joint R&D agreement.		Brief Article	22
QIAGEN's GenoVision subsidiary licensed and gained exclusive commercialization rights.		Brief Article	21
QIAGEN.		Brief Article	48
QIAGEN.		Brief Article	27
Roche Diagnostics.		Brief Article	34
Roche.		Brief Article	35
Shimadzu.		Brief Article	17
Siemens buys CTI molecular imaging.		Brief Article	183
SII Nanotechnology.		Brief Article	42
Spring business climate survey: moderate expectations.			1177
Stratagene filed suit in May against Third Wave Technologies for infringement of Stratagene's FullVelocity reagent system for quantitative PCR and QRT-PCR.			27
Stratagene.		Brief Article	24
Taylor Hobson.		Brief Article	17
Thar Technologies selected Waters as its exclusive supplier of single quadrupole MS systems.		Brief Article	33
The bottom line.		Illustration	445
The University of Sydney purchased Imago Scientific Instruments' LEAP Atom Probe Microscope.		Brief Article	18
Thermo Electron completes Kendro acquisition.		Brief Article	148
Under a collaborative agreement, Applied Biosystems and BIOCRATES life sciences GmbH, a bioscience application systems and consumables provider, will develop metabolomics methods, instruments and applications using Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex's QSTAR and API 4000 LC/MS/MS systems.		Brief Article	45
Under a Cooperative R&D Agreement announced in February, the EPA Region 5 Central Regional Laboratory will create mass spectral libraries of water soluble compounds using Waters's Alliance HPLC with the Micromass ZQ MS or the Alliance with the Micromass Quattro micro.		Brief Article	62
Veeco Instruments.		Brief Article	61
Whatman names new chief executive.		Brief Article	138