In January, when IBO issued its industry forecast for 2012 (see IBO 1/15/12), the industry had just finished two consecutive years of robust growth, which suggested it might be possible for such strong growth to continue. Although at the time we developed the forecast, we did not have the benefit of fourth quarter results for […]

The 23rd Analytica exhibition and conference took place in Munich, Germany, from April 17 to 20. As usual, it was a roaring success. Although the attendance of 30,000 was down slightly from 32,061 in 2010, it was hard to tell, given the general enthusiasm throughout the exhibition’s five halls. The number of exhibitors was up […]

Company Announcements Bruker announced in November 2011 a collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to develop and distribute new structural biology methods and tools to integrate small-angle X-ray scattering with NMR. In March, Oxford Instruments entered into an agreement for Active Spectrum to develop and manufacture micro-electron magnetic resonance (EMR) products to be sold […]

Company Announcements In September, Agilent and the Agilent Technologies Foundation gave Professor Gerhard Wanger at Harvard Medical School an Agilent Thought Leader Award totaling $373,000 over three years in support of his work using high-magnetic field NMR to analyze large proteins. The award will help him develop fast and efficient assignment methods for large proteins […]

Company Announcements Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance named Folio Instruments a Canadian distributor of its MQC benchtop NMR analyzer. Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance announced in April a strategic partnership with Green Imaging Technologies (GIT) to develop NMR solutions for core analysis. GIT’s LithoMetrix and GIT Systems software will be available exclusively on Oxford’s GeoSpec2 systems. The […]

Company Announcements In March, SCP Science announced that it is a North American distributor of Spinlocks’s NMR spectrometer and accessories. Sales/Orders of Note Bruker announced in December 2010 that the University of British Columbia placed an order for its AVANCE III 850 spectrometer. The system will be used for research on microbial diseases. In January, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]