Danaher to Separate Environmental and Applied Segments into New Company
Washington, DC, September 14, 2022: Washington, DC-based conglomerate Danaher will separate its Environmental & Applied Solutions segment into a new, independent, publicly traded company. The new company will contain Danaher’s Water Quality and Product Identification businesses, including Hach, a manufacturer of water quality testing instruments and reagents, and X-rite, a manufacturer of spectrophotometers and other color analysis products. After the separation, which is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2023, Danaher will be composed of its Life Sciences and Diagnostics segments, including companies like Beckman Coulter, Leica Biosystems, and Integrated DNA Technologies.
More about Neurescence: Neurescence’s microscopes are used to image and stimulate neurons in free-moving animals via fiber-bundles connected to devices mounted off the animals’ heads. Their flagship Chromatone system enables simultaneous calcium imaging and optical stimulation of neurons and includes customizable software for data visualization and analysis.
More about Evident: Previously known as Olympus Scientific Solutions, Evident manufactures life sciences and industrial microscopes and accessories as well as non-destructive testing solutions and x-ray fluorescence analyzers.
Bruker Acquires Neuroscience Microscope Providers Inscopix and Neurescence
Mountain View, CA, November 8, 2022: Bruker announced it acquired Inscopix, a manufacturer of miniaturized microscopes for neuroscience applications founded in 2011 and based in Mountain View, CA. With the acquisition, Inscopix joins Bruker’s portfolio of in-vivo brain imaging technologies, including multiphoton microscopes and preclinical MRI systems. Based in Billerica, MA, Bruker also provides mass spectrometry, gas and liquid chromatography, X-ray, and molecular spectroscopy technologies. Financial details were not disclosed.
More about Inscopix: Inscopix offers a 2-gram fluorescence microscope that can be mounted on the head of a freely moving mouse to monitor and study brain activity. In addition to this miniscope, the company’s products include platforms that allow for in vivo calcium imaging, visualization of multiple cell populations in distinct colors, and behavioral imaging as well as software for analysis of imaging data.
Billerica, MA, November 14, 2022: Bruker will also purchase 100% of the shares of Neurescence, a Toronto-based provider of miniature fiber-bundle fluorescence microscopes for neuroimaging in live animals, which was founded in 2015. Along with our recent addition of Inscopix, this acquisition bolsters Bruker’s position as the leading provider of freely behaving animal imaging and photostimulation, said Dr. Mark R. Munch, PhD, president, NANO Group, Bruker. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
More about Neurescence: Neurescence’s microscopes are used to image and stimulate neurons in free-moving animals via fiber-bundles connected to devices mounted off the animals’ heads. Their flagship Chromatone system enables simultaneous calcium imaging and optical stimulation of neurons and includes customizable software for data visualization and analysis.
More about the separation: The spin-off will be known as EAS until a new name is announced at a later date, and current Danaher executive vice president Jennifer L. Honeycutt will become president and CEO of the new company. While part of Danaher, the EAS segment generated revenue of approximately $4.7 billion in 2021.
Olympus Sells Microscope Unit Evident to Private Equity
Tokyo, August 29, 2022: Tokyo-based Olympus, a manufacturer of optical products, announced it will sell its microscope unit Evident to private equity firm Bain Capital for about $3.1 billion. After all shares of Evident are transferred to Bain on January 4, 2023, Olympus will operate as a global medical technology company focusing on its endoscopic and therapeutic solutions sections, the company said in a release announcing the deal.
More about Evident: Previously known as Olympus Scientific Solutions, Evident manufactures life sciences and industrial microscopes and accessories as well as non-destructive testing solutions and x-ray fluorescence analyzers.
Bruker Acquires Neuroscience Microscope Providers Inscopix and Neurescence
Mountain View, CA, November 8, 2022: Bruker announced it acquired Inscopix, a manufacturer of miniaturized microscopes for neuroscience applications founded in 2011 and based in Mountain View, CA. With the acquisition, Inscopix joins Bruker’s portfolio of in-vivo brain imaging technologies, including multiphoton microscopes and preclinical MRI systems. Based in Billerica, MA, Bruker also provides mass spectrometry, gas and liquid chromatography, X-ray, and molecular spectroscopy technologies. Financial details were not disclosed.
More about Inscopix: Inscopix offers a 2-gram fluorescence microscope that can be mounted on the head of a freely moving mouse to monitor and study brain activity. In addition to this miniscope, the company’s products include platforms that allow for in vivo calcium imaging, visualization of multiple cell populations in distinct colors, and behavioral imaging as well as software for analysis of imaging data.
Billerica, MA, November 14, 2022: Bruker will also purchase 100% of the shares of Neurescence, a Toronto-based provider of miniature fiber-bundle fluorescence microscopes for neuroimaging in live animals, which was founded in 2015. Along with our recent addition of Inscopix, this acquisition bolsters Bruker’s position as the leading provider of freely behaving animal imaging and photostimulation, said Dr. Mark R. Munch, PhD, president, NANO Group, Bruker. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
More about Neurescence: Neurescence’s microscopes are used to image and stimulate neurons in free-moving animals via fiber-bundles connected to devices mounted off the animals’ heads. Their flagship Chromatone system enables simultaneous calcium imaging and optical stimulation of neurons and includes customizable software for data visualization and analysis.