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IBO July 15, 2026 (Volume 35, Issue 7)
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Articles
Lab Tool Companies’ R&D Spending Declines for Second Year in a Row
New NIST Consortium Announced Will Address Food Products
Executive Briefing
A report indicates a large M&A deal may be in the works, NMR company makes acquisition, and more
Financial
First Quarter Results: Oxford Instruments, Rigaku, Shimadzu AMI, and QIAGEN
Market Profile
Holotomography Imagers
Industry Watch
Pharma & Biotech
Chemicals
Government and Academia
Regional Watch
Canada
EU
China
News
Broad-Based Companies
Informatics
Life Science Instruments
Gene-Based Analysis
Cell-Based Analysis
Protein-Based Analysis
Bottom Line
Companies’ latest financial results
SDi Predicts a Recovery Amid Headwinds
In 2025, the analytical and life science instrumentation industry weathered challenges such as funding constraints in the early-stage biotech and US academic and government sectors, as well as changes in tariff policies. Nonetheless, Strategic Directions International (SDi) predicts in its 2026 “Global Assessment Report” that the industry will overcome these obstacles by meeting demand in […]
EU Roadmap Provides Further Impetus for New Approach Methodologies
Overview One of the latest major developments in the quest for greater use of new approach methodologies (NAMs), which are broadly defined as alternatives to animal testing for studying environmental and human health hazards, is the EU’s publication of its “Roadmap Towards Phasing Out Animal Testing for Chemical Safety Assessments.” Adopted by the European Commission […]
MOBILion Expands into Proteomics MS Market
MOBILion Systems set out in 2015 to disrupt the LC-MS market. The company’s Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulation (SLIM)technology utilizes a printed circuit board and electrical fields to move ions along what the company describes as a “serpentine path,” replacing the shorter straight ion flight path found in other high-resolution IMS systems. Because the ions […]
Carterra Introduces Faster SPR
At the Society for Lab Automation and Screening (SLAS) 2026, Carterra introduced its latest surface plasmon resonance (SPR) system, the Carterra Vega High-Throughput Surface Plasmon Resonance (HT-SPR) instrument. The system will expand the company’s presence into primary screening, one of the first stages of drug discovery, in addition to secondary screening, where SPR has traditionally […]
New Report Details Higher Education Science R&D Spending
According to a report from the National Science Foundation published this month, in FY24 (ending September 30, 2024), overall R&D spending (science and engineering and non-science and engineering) by US higher education institutions grew 8.1% to $117,719 million. The federal government was the leading source of spending. But spending growth was the fastest for state […]