The recent news of the presence of the industrial chemical melamine in US pet food and diethylene glycol in Central American toothpaste has heightened concern over the chemical contamination of imported products. Chinese toothpaste has been linked to the deaths of 51 people in Panama last year. Pet food made with melamine, contained in mislabeled […]
In 1984, Applied Biosystems introduced the first DNA sequencer, revolutionizing genomic analysis. Amersham Biosciences (now GE Healthcare), Beckman Coulter and other companies followed, creating a market estimated at more than $800 million. The most widely used technology for DNA sequencing is a capillary electrophoresis–based (CE) system employing the Sanger method. Although chemistries and automation advances […]
If you open the paper, it is hard not to read about a major company establishing manufacturing facilities in a foreign country. Intel’s announcements about facilities in China and Vietnam are recent examples of this phenomenon. Clearly, Asia has been the most attractive region for locating manufacturing facilities for industry in general. However, the instrument […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS, following the acquisition of Quantron (see IBO 9/15/06), released “Brukerized” versions of Quantron’s arc-spark instruments around the first of the year. The Q6 Columbus is a laboratory system, as is the Q8 Magellan, which is priced at about $65,000. The Q8 Coronado (based on the Magellan) is an automated system for […]
Company Announcements CETAC Technology entered into a marketing and partnership agreement with Coherent for its GeoLasPro Laser Ablation System in fall 2006. CETAC Technology named StarLab SaS as its Italian distributor in fall 2006. PANalytical, a Spectris company, opened a direct sales and support organization in Mexico in November 2006. The employees of PONA, the […]
According to the FDA, 10% of drugs in the world are counterfeit. The World Health Organization (WHO) takes a more nuanced view: according to the organization, less than 1% of drugs in developed nations are counterfeit, but 10% of drugs in developing economies are counterfeit. However, in parts of Latin America, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan […]
Company Announcements Proxeon appointed Mårten Winge CEO in 2006. He joined the company from Olink Bioscience. Cenix BioScience GmbH, Applied Biosystems and the Biotechnology Center of the Technische Universität Dresden established a joint facility to develop tools and methods to enable more detailed and probative analyses of the cellular functions of therapeutically relevant genes. Applied […]
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