Wilmington, DE 7/13/15—454 Life Sciences, a Roche business, has filed a patent infringement suit in the US District Court in Delaware against Ion Torrent, a Thermo Fisher Scientific business. The complaint alleges infringement of three patents related to performing emulsion PCR and DNA sequencing of emulsion PCR products: US Patent Nos. 7,323,305 (Methods of Amplifying […]
Rishon LeZion, Israel 7/14/15—Citing anonymous sources, Israel’s Globes newspaper reports that Danaher has signed a letter of intent to purchase Applied Spectral Imaging (ASI) for $30 million. Headquartered in Israel, ASI provides computer imaging solutions for microscopes for genetic testing applications. ASI sells software and hardware. Its products are FDA approved. The newspaper reports that […]
For only the second time in five years, median R&D spending for 22 major publicly held analytical instrument and lab product companies (see table, page 6) climbed at a faster rate than revenues. In 2014, the companies’ median R&D spending advanced 7.3%, while sales grew 5.2%. Consequently, total R&D spending as a percentage of sales […]
Since its introduction in 2013, the use of the CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas (CRISPR-associated) 9 system for genome editing has exploded. Products for CRISPR/Cas9 range from plasmids and oligonucleotides to transgenic animals and screening services. According to Bioinformatics LLC’s report, “The Market for CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing Products,” published in May and based […]
Evaporation can be a key part of experimental and production processes. At the production level, it can extend the shelf life of products such as foods and pharmaceuticals. In the laboratory, evaporation can remove solvents from completed chemical syntheses or obtain analytes from wet samples. Evaporation occurs when the molecules at the surface of a […]
Since IBO’s article on federal R&D obligations from fiscal 2013 (FY13) to FY15 (see IBO 6/15/15), the NSF has released additional and more detailed tables on funding. The tables include information on obligations for individual departments within agencies, such as obligations by performer. The table below lists nine federal agencies and departments that are major […]
Product Introductions Hanna Instruments introduced the HI2002 pH/ORP, HI2003 EC/TDS/Salinity and HI2004 DO edge meters for benchtop or portable use. Hanna Instruments launched the HI9819X family of portable meters for pH/ORP, EC/TDS, resistivity/salinity, and DO/barometric pressure/BOD. In July, Hanna Instruments introduced the edge blue, calling it the first pH meter that uses pH electrodes with […]
Company Announcements MyDx signed an exclusive patent sublicense agreement in May with Next Dimension Technologies for chemical sensing technology. In June, Techcomp named Hitachi High-Tech Science as a distributor for its Scion GC and GC/MS products in Japan. Product Introductions Restek released a new GC-MS/MS pesticide reference standards kit, containing over 200 compounds. Restek launched […]
Company Announcements SYGNIS named several distributors: D-Mark Biosciences distributes the TruePrime Single Cell WGA Kit in North America, Cambridge Bioscience distributes TruePrime products in the UK and Ireland, Welgene Biotech distributes the product portfolio in Taiwan, and Biotop distributes the product portfolio in Finland. In March, LGC announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Hua-zhi Rice […]
Company Announcements BIA Separations appointed Hichrom as a UK distributor in March. In March, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the listing of its Thermo Scientific Prelude LX-4 MD HPLC as a FDA Class 1 medical device for general clinical use. BIA Separations named new distributors: Medi Analytika for India, Guangzhou Bairui Medicine for China, Labena for […]
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