Company Announcements Service firm Almac and TTP Labtech formed an alliance to give their customers access to their respective FLEXYTE fluorescence lifetime assay on the Ameon reader. Labcyte announced in January a collaboration with the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, which will apply acoustic liquid handling technology to the discovery of specialized leukemia treatments. In […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker’s N8 Horizon instrument was introduced in November 2012. The N8 has a brilliant microspot source with a 0.5 mm spot size, and a sample holder that can be configured for small-angle and grazing incidence XRD. The standard Vantec area detector can also be augmented by an optional linear detector to provide wide-angle […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker debuted the Aurora Elite inductively coupled plasma (ICP)–MS, a high-performance sibling to its existing Aurora M90. The improved ion optics and fast electronics increase the sensitivity of the system, and Bruker considers it the most sensitive single quadrupole ICP-MS on the market. The base price is $178,000, though a complete system with […]
Company Announcements BioSampling Systems entered into a distribution agreement with Ramcon for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. TAP Biosystems named TrendBio its exclusive distributor for Australia and New Zealand. Tecan and TAP Biosystems announced a comarketing agreement in October 2012 for the automation of TAP’s RAFT 3D cell culture system using Tecan’s Freedom EVO liquid […]
The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening’s (SLAS) 2013 conference took place January 12–16 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Orlando was the location of a past conference of the Society for Biomolecular Sciences, one of SLAS’s forebearers (see IBO 2/15/12). Alas, this is the conference’s last stop in Florida […]
IBO has made some major modifications to the forecast issue’s laboratory equipment market. IBO has expanded the number of categories in the market from eight to 13. The added segments are: gas generators, laboratory washers, shakers and stirrers, laboratory water purification, and concentrators and evaporators. The total market demand for laboratory equipment is forecast to […]
The laboratory automation market accounts for approximately 7% of the analytical and life sciences instrumentation market. It consists of four technology categories, which are liquid handling, microplate readers, robotics and management informatics. It is a medium-size market that encompasses technologies designed to automate repetitive laboratory procedures to increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy of the […]
Instrument and laboratory product companies have been building manufacturing facilities in developing nations for years (see IBO 3/15/11). Such facilities offer more than lower manufacturing costs, as they encompass several components of a company’s strategy for the country and surrounding region. Among these components are expanding local R&D, offering local products and services, and meeting […]
Mobile labs allow users to test in remote locations more quickly and at a lower cost than at many fixed labs. A mobile lab is defined as a lab that operates within a vehicle. Mobile labs are utilized in sectors including environmental testing, mining, oil and gas, construction and food. IBO spoke with three organizations […]
Company Announcements Tecan inaugurated in the spring Tecan Australia. Tecan announced in June a comarketing agreement with Reinnervate to develop automated solutions based on their respective Freedom EVO liquid handling workstations and Alvetex Scaffold 2D cell culture technology. Tecan announced in September the intent to comarket a new automated low-volume, high-sensitivity microfluidic ELISA based on […]
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