Sales of biosimilars, or follow-on biologics, could reach $10 billion by 2015, according to The Economist. US healthcare reform legislation signed into law earlier this year created an abbreviated FDA approval pathway for biosimilars. This month, the FDA held a two-day hearing about how to implement this pathway. Also this month, the European Medicine Agency […]
Fluorescence spectroscopy is useful for the analysis of a broad range of organic compounds. A subset of fluorescence spectroscopy is lifetime fluorescence, which offers advantages compared with conventional steady-state fluorescence. Although there are less than half a dozen significant competitors in the market, the strong growth forecast for lifetime fluorescence offers potential for new market […]
FT-Raman instruments have been used for laboratory analysis in myriad industries since they were introduced in the 1980s. These industries include finished polymers, pharmaceuticals and certain specialty chemicals. Raman instruments have not been as successful for process measurements outside the laboratory due to Raman’s technical limitations, such as sampling issues and fluorescent interferences, according to […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific acquired Polychromix, the provider of the PHAZIR handheld NIR instrument, in May. The company had 20 employees. In June, Ocean Optics acquired Sandhouse Design, a designer and manufacturer of modular mid-IR spectrometers, LEDs, light sources and other photonics products. Ocean Optics stated that with the purchase it now offers close […]
A niche but rapidly growing segment of the molecular spectroscopy market is terahertz spectroscopy. It offers a number of advantages over other analytical techniques, and can provide unique molecular information that is complementary to other molecular spectroscopy techniques. There are quite a few vendors that offer or are developing terahertz instrumentation. There is also a […]
Product Introductions Advanced Chemistry Development released in March its processing software for 1D and 2D NMR, free of charge to students and educators. Bruker introduced the SampleXpress autosampler for medium-throughput NMR automation. It can hold up to 60 standard-length NMR tubes and is compatible with all Bruker AVANCE NMR spectrometers. The product line includes the […]
MS technology has continued to advance at a rapid pace. While advanced lab-based MS applications receive the majority of attention, portable and in-field MS has grown as well. Technological improvements over the past decade have allowed the portable and in-field MS market to blossom, leading to strong demand from several industries. Rapid technological development has […]
Product Introductions Accelrys released a new version of the Pipeline Pilot Analytical Instrumentation Collection for integrating NMR data into scientific workflows containing other data, such as images, chemistry and text. Automation of analysis tasks is supported by an out-of-the-box integration with Modgraph Consultants’ NMRPredict. Active Spectrum announced its new Micro-ESR series of online and portable […]
Company Announcements BioTools opened its first international subsidiary in Surrey, UK, in January. CAMO Scientific partnered with Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, which will provide its Unscrambler multivariate data analysis software to FT-IR customers. David M. Cohen resigned from X-Rite’s Board in March and was replaced by Bradley J. Coppens, managing director of OEP Holding. FOSS A/S […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS launched the D8 DISCOVER X-ray diffractometer. The D8 DISCOVER further increases ease of use with real-time component detection, plug-and-play functionality and fully integrated two-dimensional X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) capabilities. These capabilities allow the user to switch between all materials research XRD applications, including reflectometry, high-resolution diffraction, grazing incidence diffraction and small angle […]
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