Company Announcements Zwick/Roell acquired LATZKE Prüfmaschinen-Service in February, complementing its service and product offerings for hardness testing. LATZKE provides sales and service for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Benelux countries, Liechtenstein and Denmark. Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics Instrument brand, acquired the HEL Subsieve Autosizer product line for air-permeability particle sizing in March. In April, Quantachrome Instruments […]
Company Announcements Fluidigm named Steven C. McPhail as general manager of its Production Genomics Business in May. He previously served as president and CEO of Expression Analysis. The company also announced its plans to register as a medical device manufacturer with the US FDA, list certain of its products as FDA Class 1 devices and […]
This month, the South Korean government approved the “2016 Government R&D Project Budget Allocation and Arrangement.” The government plans to spend $11.2 billion on R&D projects next year, a reduction of 2.3%. The budget bill applies to 373 projects run by 19 departments. Despite the overall drop in R&D funding, the budget for small and […]
Last month, India’s cabinet approved a bill launching the Bureau of Indian Standards to develop the country’s standards for export products. The national standards are intended to prevent current private standards, such as those imposed on food by some supermarket chains, which may be higher than global standards, from being applied. The commerce ministry will […]
The Japanese government will work with three biobanks to improve medical treatments for patients based on their genetic information. Beginning next year, the country’s budget will include funds for this initiative in genomic medicine. The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the biobanks will standardize data formats of people’s genetic information. The biobanks […]
Scientists in Russia are concerned about how funding for scientific research will be distributed this year. According to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the government will support science with RUB 350 billion ($6.1 billion), the same amount as in 2014. Most of the funds will be awarded through a competitive process, with RUB 115 billion for […]
The pharmaceutical industry’s investment in personalized medicine has jumped almost 90% in the last five years. Developers of diagnostic tests, many with FDA approval of their diagnostic devices, are working with pharmaceutical companies to codevelop drugs and companion diagnostics. This may speed up FDA approval of drugs, as the best-suited patients can be selected for […]
This month, the US government issued a memo on updating the regulation of biotech products—products obtained through genetic engineering or organisms resulting from targeted gene manipulation. The update will address the fact that each federal agency dealing with biotech products (the EPA, FDA and USDA) currently has its own regulations and guidance, and that science […]
Last month’s “Global Nature Index” reported worldwide research contributions by region. With 57,501 papers from 2014 in the “Index,” North America, North and West Europe, and East and Southeast Asia accounted for 91% of the total whole fractional count (WFC) of articles, at 19,425, 15,785 and 11,464, respectively. These regions accounted for most of the […]
Currency and US Demand Drive Biotage Sales First quarter sales for Biotage jumped 26.8%, 6.1% excluding currency, to SEK 144.2 million ($17.3 million = SEK 8.34 = $1). Sales were driven by double-digit growth for sample preparation products as the company introduced the Extrahera system. The new system is freely available to customers agreeing to […]
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