Arthur Holden, Illumina Senior Vice President of Corporate and Market Development, resigned from the company in fall 2007. Rosetta Biosoftware’s Syllego System achieved Affymetrix GeneChip-compatibility status. Eppendorf Biochip Systems GmbH certified Girus Life Sciences as a service provider. Oxford Gene Technology granted a license to Phalanx Biotech to fabricate and sell arrays in the US. […]
Following two weeks of speculation and a bidding process involving at least four companies, on February 4, GE Healthcare announced that it would acquire Whatman for $713 million in cash (see page 2, IBO 1/15/08). The 268-year-old company with forecasted 2007 revenues of £116 million ($232 million), Whatman is a name long associated with laboratory […]
President Bush’s proposed budget, released February 4, for fiscal year 2009 calls for a 3.3% increase in the federal R&D investment to $145.4 billion. Federal support of basic and applied R&D would drop 0.5% to $57.1 billion, with a 3.1% increase in basic research spending to $29.3 billion and a 4.0% decrease in applied research […]
Battelle and R&D Magazine estimate that federal support of R&D in 2008 will increase 2.46% to $102 billion. Industry support will increase 3.61% to $235.7 billion, 3.58% to $2.6 billion, and 3.23% to $1.4 billion with respect to the industrial, academic and nonprofit sectors. Academic R&D spending is predicted to rise 3.70% to $13 billion. […]
Biomotif AB entered into an agreement to distribute Analytica of Branford’s MS systems. Caprotec Bioanalytics GmbH, a developer of Capture Compound MS technology for targeted isolation of protein or protein classes, received €6 million ($8.8 million) in January in two rounds of financing. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the integration of Matrix Science’s Mascot search engine […]
On January 15, the Korean Science and Technology Ministry released a plan to place Korea among the top three countries for nanotechnology by 2020. According to the plan, by 2020, Korean companies would control 20% of the global nanotechnology market, generating sales of $260 billion per year by 2015 and $500 billion in 2020. Nano-element […]
Affymetrix awarded premier application status to Beckman Coulter’s ArrayPlex application for automated target RNA preparation on the Biomek 3000. Platicell entered into an agreement with Hamilton to automate its Combinatorial Cell Culture technology for determining optimal protocols to direct stem cell differentiation. Tecan AG and pION launched the PAMPA (Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay) Explorer […]
: In January, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a $13.4 million loan for Kazakhstan’s Technology Commercialization Project (TCP). The TCP has a total budget of $75 million, $61.6 million of which comes from Kazakhstan’s government, and seeks to restore some of the country’s scientific capacity, which was strong during the Soviet era. […]
The Science and Technology (S&T) budget for Japan’s fiscal year 2008 (April 1, 2008–March 31, 2009) was approved in December 2007 and totals ¥3.57 trillion ($32.5 billion), an increase of 1.7% (see IBO 1/15/08). Sixty-five percent of S&T spending will go to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Within the MEXT, […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific is now distributing EDAX’s electron backscatter diffraction systems to complement its Noran System Six X-ray microanalysis system. Xstream Systems named Blue Ridge X-Ray a distributor of its XT250 ED-XRF for identification of counterfeit drugs in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Shimadzu Japan introduced the ICPE-9000 ICP emission spectrometer. Available in multitype and sequential […]
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