Company Announcements Affymetrix entered into an agreement in October 2011 with the Broad Institute to chart the genomic changes involved in more than 20 types of cancer as part of the Broad’s work on the Cancer Genome Atlas. Using Affymetrix’s Genome-Wide Human SNP 6.0 Array, 13,500 cancer samples will be processed. In November 2011, Affymetrix […]
Company Announcements Diffinity Genomics signed in November 2011 a distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich for the RapidTip for PCR Purification product line. Denator named three new distributors: Bio-xplorer International for China, Bosung Scientific for Korea and GenDiscovery Biotechnology for Taiwan. In December 2011, Pressure BioSciences announced a distribution agreement with IUL Instruments for Germany and Switzerland. […]
Company Announcements Nikon partnered with the Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia for the study and development of new methods in super-resolution fluorescence optical microscopy for oncology and neurodegenerative diseases. Leica Microsystems entered into an agreement in November 2011 with the Max Planck Society and the German Cancer Research Center to develop gated super-resolution simulated emission depletion […]
The US Department of Agriculture’s Global Agricultural Information Network published a translation in early February of China’s “12th Five-Year Plan on National Food Safety Standards.” The Plan was released by the Ministry of Health on January 30 and comments were accepted until February 28. According to the document, China currently has 1,900 national food standards, […]
St. Louis, MO 2/24/12; Sheffield, UK 2/24/12; Sheffield, UK 2/24/12—Certara, a provider of drug discovery and development software and scientific consulting services, has acquired Simcyp for $32 million. Based in the UK, Simcyp supplies a modeling and simulation platform for predicting the fate of drugs in virtual populations. For its fiscal year ending July 2011, […]
Graz, Austria 2/29/12—Anton Paar, a provider of analytical instrumentation, has acquired the Petrotest Group for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 1873 and based in Germany, Petrotest provides systems for determining the flash point of petroleum products using the Pensky-Martens method. “The combination of existing technologies from both companies results in a promising synergy effect and […]
New Castle, DE 2/15/12—TA Instruments, a Waters company, has acquired German thermal analysis system maker BÄHR Thermoanalyse. “This acquisition adds powerful technologies which complement TA Instruments’ market-leading thermal analysis product line,” said TA Instruments President Terry Kelly. “There are exciting opportunities to merge patented technologies from TA and BÄHR to produce powerful new systems.” BÄHR […]
Madison, WI 2/15/12—A jury in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has awarded Promega $52.0 million in damages for willful infringement of its Short Tandem Repeat (STR) patents by Life Technologies. The Court may increase the damages and will consider an injunction against Life Technologies for the sale of the infringing […]
In the calendar-year fourth quarter, major, publicly held US instrument companies posted steady growth. In general, US academic and government sales improved from the third quarter but remained slow, according to several companies. The surprise of the quarter was Europe, for which a number of firms reported sales growth. For the eight businesses whose results […]
As discussed in IBO’s August 15, 2011, issue, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan was initiated last year, with the aim of boosting the country’ R&D spending to 2.2% of GDP, compared with 1.8% of GDP in 2010. Details of the specific industry and regional five-year plans continue to be announced, including the funding amounts and goals […]
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