Company Announcements QuantuMDx Group received an exclusive license in October to several Nanosys patents and patent applications related to the use of nanostructures for biosensors, including field effect transistors biosensors, for the use for DNA sequencing and detecting nucleic acid biomarkers associated with disease. In October, Fluidigm appointed Research Instruments/RI Technologies as its distributor in […]
Company Announcements In September, the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences exclusively licensed its Underway Aiming System ocean light measurement software to Satlantic. Product Introductions WTW, a Xylem firm, launched the new inoLab 7110 series for measuring pH and conductivity without electronic documentation; the 7310 series for measuring pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen (DO) with documentation; […]
Company Announcements In December, the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI, which was formed by the California Institute of Technology and CEA-Leti, launched Analytical Pixels. The company will design, manufacture and bring to market GC systems based on nanoelectromechanical system sensors. Product Introductions In October, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the TraceGOLD GC Column with Safe Guard, which […]
Company Announcements On October 15, Bernd Brust resigned as president of Molecular Medicine at Life Technologies. Illumina named Dr. Daniel S. Grosu, MD, to the newly created position of vice president and chief medical officer in late October. He was previously group director, Clinical Science, Clinical and Medical Affairs at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics. On October 31, […]
Company Announcements In December, Analytik Jena announced that as part of its sales partnership with Japanese firm Techno-X, its Japanese subsidiary will offer instruments for X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). The goal is to achieve sales of €1.5–€2.0 million ($2.0–$2.7 million) in fiscal 2012. Analytik Jena will fully incorporate Techno-X’s sales team into the sales structure […]
Spain’s ministry of science has been eliminated as part of a plan by new People’s Party Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to cut costs and strengthen the government. The ministry was established in 2000. Four years later, it merged with the ministry of education, until 2008 when Cristina Garmedia was elected science minister. She revised Spain’s […]
Isolating the active ingredients from traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) in order to develop drugs that meet the Western regulatory definition of a drug compound has long proved challenging. Among the problems is the use of traditional techniques for extraction. To improve the development of such drugs, in 2008, China launched the $1.6 billion Innovative New […]
Singapore’s 2010 gross expenditures on R&D (GERD) increased 7.4% to SGD 6.5 billion ($5.0 billion) according to a national survey. Business expenditures on R&D (BERD) rose 6.0% to SGD 3.9 billion, for which 799 companies were responsible. The BERD for “electronics, infocomms and media,” the largest market category, grew 0.2% to SGD $2.31 billion. The […]
According to Battelle and R&D Magazine, R&D spending worldwide is estimated to increase 5.2% to $1,402.6 billion in 2012 measured in purchase powered parity, compared to growth of 6.5% in 2011. Asian R&D spending is expected to increase the fastest, rising 9% next year to $514.4 billion to account for 37% of total global R&D […]
This month, the EPA finalized US standards for mercury and air toxics emissions from power plants. The regulations are expected to affect 1,100 coal-fired units and 300 oil-fired units at a total of 600 power plants. Power plants are responsible for approximately 50% of mercury emissions and 77% of acid gas emissions. The standards provide […]
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