The UK’s GDP expenditure on R&D for 2014 was £30.6 billion ($23.0 billion), a 4.4% increase from 2013 and a 4.1% annual average increase since 1990. The business sector had the highest R&D output in 2014, responsible for £19.9 billion, or 65%, of total R&D expenditure in the UK, a 5.9% increase. Business received R&D […]
Although Japan has long been a hub of scientific innovation, the nation’s overall scientific output has been declining. The Nature Index is a database that records the number of research papers associated with a particular institution each year, calculating a weighted fractional count (WFC) that associates authors with specific studies. Although the University of Tokyo’s […]
In a Pew Charitable Trusts’ analysis of the National Residue Program (NRP), implemented by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the USDA, issues were found regarding the type of drug and chemical compounds that are selected for public health assessment, as well as the documenting and reporting of testing results. This is considered […]
Last week, the Canadian government released details of its federal budget for fiscal 2016. To further scientific and technological innovation, Budget 2016 proposes CAD 95 million ($72.1 million) be provided per year on an ongoing basis for “discovery research.” This includes CAD 30 million for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Natural Sciences […]
In 2015, there were 61 IPOs across western stock exchanges, down from 87 in 2014, with companies raising $4.68 billion, compared to $6.3 billion in 2014. Total US and EU venture capital (VC) funding grew 34.4% and 46.4% to $7.04 billion and $2.02 billion, respectively, although the number of rounds for each region declined. To […]
Although energy firms are cutting costs and reducing employees due to bottoming oil prices, North American research organizations and companies are increasing efforts to enhance the productivity of oil production. By creating new labs and hiring more employees, research institutions are taking advantage of the slowdown in the oil industry to come up with new […]
US equity markets steadily advanced in March with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ improving 7.1%, 6.6% and 6.8%, respectively. Investors reacted favorably to US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s dovish stance, as she advocated a more cautious approach to policy changes due to the fragile global economic environment. Consequently, the US […]
Following each Pittcon (see IBO 3/15/16), IBO details the new products introduced at the show. These are products that began shipping in winter 2015 or later. Part 1 of this article appeared in the March 15 issue. The list is not all inclusive. Atomic Spectroscopy Alpha Resources displayed a new elemental analyzer from Eltra, the […]
Uppsala, Sweden and Tucson, AZ 3/16/16—Gyros, a Swedish provider of automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays, and Protein Technologies, a supplier of peptide synthesizers, have agreed to form Gyros Protein Technologies. “The fields of proteins and peptides have merged, and hence so have we, creating a biotherapeutics discovery-to-production offering ideally positioning us for future expansion,” commented Protein Technologies […]
Minneapolis, MN 3/31/16—Bio-Techne has purchased Zephyrus Biosciences for an undisclosed amount. Zephyrus’s Z1 System is designed for western blotting of individual cells. “This new technology brings this technique to the single-cell level, allowing us to address both homogeneous sample populations with our Simple Western platforms and now heterogeneous populations at the single-cell level with Zephyrus […]
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