Articles from Instrument Business Outlook (October 15, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
3M acquires Biotrace.		Brief article	206
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.			35
A. Blaine Bowman, former president and CEO of Dionex, and Roy Whitfield, former CEO of Incyte, joined Solexa's Board.			25
ABB.			14
ADS, a Nova Analytics company, acquired Severn Trent Pipeline Services.			16
Alesco's Scientific and Medical Division (Biolab) acquired App-Tek Group, a manufacturer of gas detection equipment.			25
Applied Biosystems.			30
Applied Biosystems.			20
Applikon Analytical named five new distributors.			22
AppliTek NV.			17
As part of a research collaboration with Jacobi Medical Center to develop a genetic screening platform for neonatal, prenatal and maternal/adult healthcare.			34
Axela Biosensors.			20
Baseline-MOCON.			34
Beckman Coulter adds to assay miniaturization capabilities.			147
Beckman Coulter expands chemistry offerings.			178
Brazil.		Brief article	233
Bruker Daltonics licensed Health Discovery's Support Vector Machine pattern recognition technology.			17
Bruker Daltonics was named the exclusive worldwide manufacturer of Ibis Pharmaceuticals' T5000 biosensor systems.			37
Bruker Daltonics.			21
Bruker Daltonics.			13
Business Climate Survey: optimism amid uncertainty.			1041
California Analytical Instruments acquired Liston Scientific, a provider of gas analyzers.			13
Caliper Life Sciences.			22
Caliper Life Sciences.			16
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (CRi) and Invitrogen will jointly promote the use of CRi's Maestro small animal.			28
China's Ministry of Health, PerkinElmer.			32
China.		Brief article	102
Cohesive Technologies entered into a collaborative agreement with the Mayo Clinic.			28
Enzo Biochem acquired licenses from LBS Technologies for linear amplification technology.			25
EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard: oil & gas R&D grows.			1705
EU.		Brief article	141
Government.		Brief article	153
In April, IDEAL Industries, a manufacturer of professional quality tools, acquired Casella Measurement.			36
In August, Fisher HealthCare became the exclusive distributor of Nanogen's MGB.			22
In August, Joseph Whitters, former CFO of First Health Group, joined Solexa's Board.			22
In August, Olympus signed an exclusive Japanese distribution agreement for VisEn Medical's fluorescence molecular tomography imaging systems.			24
In August, Paul W. Hawran, CFO at Neurocrine Biosciences, joined SEQUENOM.			12
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.			28
In September, Takara Bio and its Clontech Laboratories subsidiary entered into license agreements with Applied Biosystems.			19
In the first half of 2006, Cepheid's total revenues declined 2% to $40.0 million.			70
Invitrogen and Prodesse signed a license agreement in July for the first diagnostics assays.			21
Kreatech Biotechnology BV is marketing QIAGEN NV's REPLI-g Whole Genome Amplification Kits in combination with its Universal Linkage System.			28
LumaSense Technologies acquired Innova AirTech Systems A/S in July.			28
Luminex.			44
Market profile: animal ultrasound imaging.			466
Metals.			223
Metara.			30
New England Biolabs will provide Solexa with certain key enzymes and other reagents for use with the Solexa Genome Analysis System.			27
NuGEN.			31
PerkinElmer entered into a multi-year license and research collaboration agreement with the University of Leicester, UK.			23
PerkinElmer entered into multi-year research agreements with John Hopkins University and the University of Birmingham, UK.			28
Pharmaceuticals.			151
Q2 operating profit decline for Life Science Index.			1359
SEQUENOM: A. Michael Monko.			24
SEQUENOM: Betty Dragon.			34
Severn Trent Services.			19
Siemens.			15
Siemens.			17
Sigma-Aldrich buys chiral chromatography firm.			148
Solexa.			20
SpectraSensors.			21
SRU Biosystems stated in August that a district court rejected Corning's injunction (see IBO 5/31/06) and entered its proposal.			27
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.			46
The bottom line.		Statistical table	436
The clinical proteomic technology centers.			1344
Thermo Electron.			28
Thermo Electron.			14
Under a partnership agreement, Royal Philips Electronics and BG Medicine will develop molecular healthcare products.			36
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.			33
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.			33
Under an expanded cooperative marketing agreement, Proteome Systems will provide Agilent.			17
Varian.			15
VWR acquires Singaporean distributor.			91
Waters will develop its ACQUITY UPLC System software controls for use with Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX's.			19
Waters.			23
X-Rite.			14