With the addition of Oxford Instruments and details of Shimadzu’s financial results, first quarter IBO Laboratory Sales Index revenues are now estimated to have grown 0.6%, 1.9% excluding currency, to $5,905 million (see IBO 5/15/13). Operating profit declined 2.9% to $1,215 million, and operating margin contracted 60 basis points to 18.1% of sales. For the […]
Company Announcements Diba named Kinesis the exclusive distributor of its OmniSep columns. In April, ASI and Chromatan announced an exclusive agreement to combine development, sales, marketing and manufacturing efforts to bring Continuous Countercurrent Tangential Chromatography, a continuous single-use and column-free purification technology, to market. Shimadzu announced in April that Waters Empower chromatography data system (CDS) […]
Company Announcements NETZSCH Instruments North America formed a collaboration with the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop an isothermal calorimeter to test the performance and safety of large-format Li-ion batteries. In April, Izon Science announced a distribution agreement with HORIBA Scientific for France. Malvern Instruments and NETZSCH Grinding & Dispersing announced in April a […]
While they are both based on similar physical principles, atomic fluorescence spectroscopy (AFS) is far less common a technique than atomic absorption spectroscopy (AA). Both provide elemental composition information and rely on the specific wavelengths of light that serve to identify particular elements corresponding to the lines in their atomic spectra. In both, the sample […]
BioTek Instruments will begin shipping its Cytation3 cell imaging multimode microplate reader in July. The system is available as a microplate reader, a microscope or both. The reader uses BioTek’s “hybrid” technology of filter-based and monochromator optics to measure absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence. The microscope uses inverted fluorescence and brightfield imaging and provides CCD-based image […]
Company Announcements CovalX named AMR a representative for Japan. In April, Bruker Daltonics and Biodesix agreed to collaborate to support Biodesix’s VeriStrat diagnostic test, a multivariate serum protein test for personalizing therapy for patients with lung cancer, and future diagnostic tests based on MALDI-TOF MS. Bruker announced a collaborative effort in April with Canada’s University […]
Company Announcements Gerresheimer’s 2012 Life Science Research sales improved 8.6%, 2.0% organically, to €99.6 million ($128.0 million). Currency added 7.8% to revenue growth, while a divested product line lowered growth by 1.2%. BINDER’s 2013 sales totaled €56 million ($72 million). SOTAX opened a subsidiary in the Czech Republic in April. RFCL changed its name to […]
Company Announcements Miltenyi Biotec opened its first office in the Nordic and Baltic region in January in the city of Lund, Sweden, replacing the company’s distributor. Miltenyi Biotec partnered with Tree Star in January to distribute and support FlowJo 10 flow cytometry software in Europe, including Turkey and Israel. Miltenyi Biotech opened an office in […]
Company Announcements Spinomix closed a Series A equity investment of $3 million, led by Debiopharm Group. Pressure BioSciences appointed Dr. Mickey Urdea, founder and managing partner of Halteres Associates, to its Board in February, replacing Wayne Fritzsche. In May, Perfinity Biosciences named Robert H. Ellis president and CEO. He was formerly president and CEO of […]
For the 17 countries for which data was available, public funding for higher educational institutions (HEIs) grew in nine countries and fell in eight from 2012 to 2013, according to the European University Association’s “Public Funding Observatory,” which obtained public funding data from questionnaires sent to the National Rectors’ Conferences earlier this year. In 2012, […]
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