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Volume 34, Issue 7 (July 15, 2025)
Articles
Waters Enters New Territory with BD Businesses
R&D in 2024: Lab Tool Companies Raise R&D Spending
New Labs Summer 2025: New Labs Announced in South Korea and Indonesia
Executive Briefing
Acquistions announced, an acquisition finally closes, a new CEO named and more
Financial
First Quarter Results: 10x Genomics, Biotage, Oxford Instruments and Pacific Biosciences
Market Profile
FT-NIR for Microplastics Analysis
Industry Watch
Government: Court Rules on Large-Scale Layoffs
Food & Beverage: Synthetic Dyes Found in Many Products
Academia and Government: Postdocs Report Funding Impact
Region Watch
UK: NHS Discusses Genomics Focus
EU: EC Issues Life Science Communication
News
Life Science Instruments
Gene-Based Analysis
Cell-Based Analysis
Protein-Based Analysis
Informatics
Chromatography
Sequencing
Bottom Line
Companies’ latest financial results
Syncell: Advancing Spatial Proteomics
Founded in 2020, Syncell launched its first products at the beginning of last year. The Microscoop Mint and Synlight photolabeling kit and Synpull protein extraction reagents together offer a subcellular solution for spatial proteomics by utilizing laser nano-pulldown (LNP). In 2024, the company closed a $15 million Series A funding, led by Taiwania Capital. The […]
SDi Forecasts Growth in Demand for Analytical Instruments 2024–2029
Tariff announcements and changes in the academic and government funding landscape in the US are the latest challenges facing the laboratory tools industry. But, according to Strategic Directions International’s (SDi’s) 2025 “Global Assessment Report,” despite these challenges and others, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for laboratory instruments will increase in coming years. Five-Year Market […]
NIH Disruptions and Lab Tool Companies: Stocks React
One likely effect of the new US government’s recent actions to disrupt NIH grant funding to US universities has been a hit to stock prices of suppliers of life science instrumentation for university R&D. The Trump Administration’s actions include restrictions and terminations of grants, as well as delays or cancellations of grant review meetings and […]
Federal R&D Obligations for the NIH Decline in FY24
The recent plan by the Trump Administration to cap indirect costs for NIH academic research, which has been put on hold by a federal judge, as well as cuts to several other agencies that are major funders of R&D, has put the spotlight on federal R&D spending. This month, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) National […]
Paving The Way for Change: 10x Genomics Announces Corporate Strategies for a Fruitful 2025
10x Genomics (10x) is a US-based life science technology company that manufactures genomic and cell analysis technology for scientific research applications. Specifically, the firm’s products and offerings cater to end-users conducting bulk, single-cell and spatial biology analyses. Due to being part of the research scientific tools market, 10x’s co-founder and CEO Serge Saxonov, Ph.D., presented […]