Company Announcements In June, Spark Holland named LEAP Technologies as a value-added partner for US distribution. LEAP will initially focus on automated at-line systems integrated with the CTC PAL3 platforms and universal CHRONOS software. Phenomenex acquired Micron Analytica, its Spanish distribution partner, in June. Illumina, Merck KGaA and Genea established the Global Fertility Alliance to […]
Company Announcements In April, Singulex announced a partnership with the Dutch Technology Foundation to form the Biomarker Development Center. In May, MBio Diagnostics closed a $6.3 million Series B financing to further develop its portable, easy-to-use multiplex system that can detect all key analytes. Emulate announced in June research collaboration with Janssen Biotech to deploy […]
This year’s winners of IBO’s Design Awards for portable instrument utilize industrial design to integrate portability and utility. These battery-powered, instruments are designed for transport and use outside a lab. Gold Award The 2015 Gold IBO Design Award for portable instrumentation goes to DetectaChem’s SEEKERe colorimetric system for explosives and narcotics detection. The 2.6 x […]
This year’s winner of the IBO Design Award for laboratory equipment present new approaches to standard lab equipment industrial design that are both visually appealing, and increase the device’s functionality and ease of use. Lab equipment is defined as systems used in the lab that receive an electrical current, are operational for a minimum of […]
Central European countries spend less than 1% of GDP on R&D, besides Slovenia, which spends 2.6%. But a survey of 411 firms from 11 Central European countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) revealed that companies in the region as a whole plan to increase their short- […]
R&D is on the rise in China, as the country attracted $5.5 billion in 88 foreign greenfield R&D projects from 2010 to 2014, according to fDi Markets. This places China at the top globally in amount invested in such projects, and second in number of projects to the US, which had 91. The pharmaceuticals, business […]
An assessment of 265 biopharmaceutical facilities in the 35 countries comprising the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region found that the combined production of the sites in 2014 was more than 2.4 million L. Among the sites, 26%, 18%, 15% manufactured recombinant proteins only, vaccines only, or “other” (excluding mAbs and blood processing), […]
This month, US President Obama and the EPA unveiled the Clean Power Plan, which regulates emissions from new, modified and reconstructed power plants. The Plan, when fully implemented, calls for carbon, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions from power plants to be reduced nationally to 32%, 90% and 72% below 2005 levels, respectively. States must […]
By using electrons instead of light to investigate surfaces, SEMs routinely provide imagery at a resolution that exceeds the capabilities of optical microscopes by a couple orders of magnitude. The basic method of SEM involves an electron optics column directing an accelerated beam of electrons at the sample. The interaction of the sample with the […]
Company Announcements MR Solutions announced in March that it now provides maintenance and upgrade support for existing Agilent Technologies MRI preclinical imaging systems. ASD, a PANalytical company, named PT Multi Teknindo Infotronika as an Indonesian distributor. In May, Spectro Scientific announced a joint marketing agreement with Wärtsilä Services Switzerland to develop a specialized version of […]
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