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Companies:

Danaher has acquired the Precision Measurement Division and test tool product line of Wavetek Wandel Goltermann, which will become part of Danaher's Fluke subsidiary...Agilent has signed a collaborative research agreement with Cyrano Sciences...Quantech has formed HTS BioSystems to develop and market SPR technology for scientific research, using intellectual property from both Quantech and PE Biosystems...Merck and Hitachi have extended their agreement for HPLC, preparative chromatography and MS for another ten years...Biacore International and Diffchamb AB have signed a collaboration agreement, under which Diffchamb has the exclusive right to sell Biacore food analysis products in the UK...Sepragen announced three new European distributors, Analis, Proteigene and KronLab, for its biotech separations products...MetaChem Technologies, a HPLC columns and SPE products supplier, has become the wholly owned Separations Division of ANSYS Diagnostics, a medical diagnostic and laboratory products manufacturer..Thermo Bioanalysis has established a scientific advisory board...Perbio Science has acquired Pierce & Warriner, a biotech product company, which will be renamed Perbio Science UK...Shimadzu will market Olympus optical laser microscopes in Japan...Agilent has expanded its agreement with Rosetta Inpharmatics (see IBO 12/31/99) to include FlexJet DNA microarray technology...Oxford Instruments has formed a new business unit, Oxford Instruments Process Systems, to focus on Oxford's NMR product line, on-line x-ray fluorescence systems and flow and electrostatic systems...Toe Electronics will merge with DKK, an analytical equipment manufacturer...Zygo has signed a letter of intent to acquire Firefly Technologies...Applied Precision announced its complete catalog is now available through Ventro...Fisher Scientific has combined its e-commerce businesses into the Alchematrix subsidiary, which it intends to take public in twelve months...Comdisco's selection of "as is" analytical, life science and bioprocessing equipment is available for purchase or lease at laboratory.comdisco. com...SciQuest.com and Vista Capital have launched an auction site for lab equipment leasing...

Products:

Agilent has introduced its 1100 Series capillary LC system for HPLC, which uses a capillary pump that incorporates electronic flow control that measures and controls the actual flow rate, ensuring stability...Dionex introduced the new BioLC System for HPLC...The company also introduced the ASI-100T Automated Sample Injector, a highly flexible autosampler for automating HPLC methods...Applied Research Laboratories introduced the ADVANT'X Series of sequential XRF spectrometers and the ARL 9800 XP, a high-performance process control X-ray spectrometer...APT Instruments has introduced the portable, hand-held DL-300 data logger and a portable refractometer with a Spreeta SPR Sensor...PerkinElmer Instruments has introduced the Princeton Applied Research DLK-60, a low-cost, portable electrochemical analyzer...Horiba has introduced its new U-20 multi-parameter water quality checker and the Camsizer digital camera particle size analyzer...